Publisher's summary
The Doctor has been captured and put on trial by his own people, accused of their greatest crime: interfering with the affairs of other peoples and planets. He is sentenced to exile on Earth. That much is history.
But now the truth can be told — the Doctor does not go straight into exile. First the Time Lords have a task for him. From the trenches of the Great War to the terrors of the French Revolution, the Doctor finds himself on a mission he does not want, with a companion he does not like, his life threatened at every turn.
Will the Doctor survive to serve his sentence? Or will this adventure prove to be his Waterloo?
Characters
References
- Psychic paper is said to be a CIA invention.
Notes
- This story takes place in the Season 6B timeline.
- The Psychic paper was a tool was introduced in the 2005 season of the revived Doctor Who as a device used by the Ninth Doctor. As the Past Doctor Adventures line was discontinued soon after, this is the only known time that an original novel featuring a "classic series" Doctor has made direct reference to a concept introduced in the TV series revival.
Continuity
- The Doctor mentions his recent encounter with his eighth incarnation. (EDA: The Eight Doctors)
- This story posits that psychic paper was a Time Lord invention and that the Doctor first started using it as far back as his second incarnation —neither of which has ever been stated on television. Psychic paper first appeared in DW: The End of the World.
- This story posits the second significant encounter between the Second Doctor and Horatio Nelson. However, the Doctor meets him at a much later point in his second incarnation's life but at an earlier point in Nelson's life. At no point does the Doctor mention having met Nelson in the company of Ben Jackson and Polly Wright, as he did in DWAN: H.M.S. TARDIS.
- The Third Doctor would later describe Lord Nelson as a "close personal friend" (DW: The Sea Devils) whereas the Fourth Doctor claimed to have had breakfast with him the day before the Battle of Trafalgar (PDA: Eye of Heaven).
- The Eighth Doctor's companion Charley Pollard would later befriend the elderly Duke of Wellington in 1851. (BFA: Other Lives)
Timeline
- World Game occurs after DW: The War Games
- The November 1915 sequence of PDA: Players occurs during the book (relatively speaking)
- World Game occurs before DW: The Two Doctors