The Book of the Enemy (short story)
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The Book of the Enemy was the third story in The Book of the Enemy.
Summary
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Characters
References
- Holmes and Watson visited Ruritania several times to assist King Rudolf.
- Britain established an alliance with Mars after the Martians' attempted invasion of Earth.
Notes
- The author published a list of references in the story.[1]
- The framing story with "the club's oldest member" was borrowed from P. G. Wodehouse's stories.
- The hypothetical about a man named Reginald who served kippers was a reference to Wodehouse's character Jeeves.
- The men in the British Museum's Select Manuscript Room -- the one who spilled his papers, and the one who helped collect them -- are Dunning and Karsell from M.R. James' Casting the Runes.
- The narrator recalls Watson's stories about Holmes' "excursion across the moors" (The Hound of the Baskervilles) and "wrestling match on a precipice" (The Final Problem).
- Imagery is borrowed from H. P. Lovecraft's work and the novel Alice in Wonderland.
- History remembered the Martian embassy as being burned down in the siege of Sidney Street.
- The account of the Martian invasion of Earth was inspired by H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds and influenced by the anthology editor Simon Bucher-Jones' novel Charles' Dickens' Martian Notes.
- The story was preceded in the anthology by Pre-narrative Briefing C.
Continuity
- Tom dreams of demons trapped in pyramids. (TV: Pyramids of Mars, AUDIO: The Judgment of Sutekh)
- Sherlock Holmes helped a Pope in PROSE: All-Consuming Fire.
- James Moriarty discovered that non-Euclidean geometry best describes spacetime; this discovery was attributed to Albert Einstein. (TV: Four to Doomsday, The Lie of the Land)
Footnotes
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