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* The Doctor and Susan have mentioned the TARDIS's laboratory, workshop, conservatory and art gallery during the four travellers' "long weeks" aboard. Aside from the control room, Ian has only seen living, sleeping and recreational areas. | * The Doctor and Susan have mentioned the TARDIS's laboratory, workshop, conservatory and art gallery during the four travellers' "long weeks" aboard. Aside from the control room, Ian has only seen living, sleeping and recreational areas. | ||
* The sleeping quarters are located a significant distance from the console room in the novelisation. | * The sleeping quarters are located a significant distance from the console room in the novelisation. | ||
* | * The Doctor and Ian investigate the TARDIS's power rooms, which are contained in a complex of fifteen separate rooms containing power stacks capable of powering every aspect of the TARDIS. Ian is sealed in with the internal scanner - a piece of equipment designed to survey the other fourteen rooms - and nearly suffocates to death before he can get the door open. | ||
* | * Barbara explores the TARDIS laboratory, where she is assaulted by books, boxes and various bits of equipment from the benches. The storeroom door in the shadow of the bookcase is lead-lined against its stock of radioactive isotopes. If she'd have entered without a protective suit, as Susan explains, she'd have been dead within thirty seconds. | ||
* The blinding flash is qualified to be not the Big Bang, for not even the TARDIS could survive such an event, but instead the birth of the Milky Way Galaxy. | * The blinding flash is qualified to be not the Big Bang, for not even the TARDIS could survive such an event, but instead the birth of the Milky Way Galaxy. | ||
* Susan and Ian are having breakfast when the TARDIS materialises. The transition into ''[[Marco Polo (TV story)|Marco Polo]]'' exists, but is | * Susan and Ian are having breakfast when the TARDIS materialises. The transition into ''[[Marco Polo (TV story)|Marco Polo]]'' exists, but is more vague than its televised counterpart and lacks the cliffhanger ending. | ||
== Writing and publishing notes == | == Writing and publishing notes == | ||
* This novelisation was originally offered to [[Stephen James Walker]], but as a two-parter. It was declined and instead written by [[Nigel Robinson]]. | * This novelisation was originally offered to [[Stephen James Walker]], but as a two-parter. It was declined and instead written by [[Nigel Robinson]]. | ||
* The inside back cover includes colour Fantastic Doctor Who Poster Offers!-but instead of poster ordering details, the page details how to order Star books! | * The inside back cover includes colour Fantastic Doctor Who Poster Offers! - but instead of poster ordering details, the page details how to order Star books! | ||
== Cover gallery == | == Cover gallery == | ||
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== British publication history == | == British publication history == | ||
Hardback (May 1988) | Hardback ([[May (releases)|May]] [[1988 (releases)|1988]]) | ||
* W.H.Allen & Co. Ltd. UK ISBN:0491031386, estimated print run: 1,000, priced £7.95) | * W.H.Allen & Co. Ltd. UK ISBN:0491031386, estimated print run: 1,000, priced £7.95) | ||
Paperback (October 1988) | Paperback ([[October (releases)|October]] 1988) | ||
* Target / W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. One single paperback edition, estimated print run: 23,000, priced £1.99 (UK). | * Target / W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. One single paperback edition, estimated print run: 23,000, priced £1.99 (UK). | ||