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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* This was the first [[BBC Wales]]-related work to be written by prolific ''Doctor Who'' writer Dicks. | * This was the first [[BBC Wales]]-related work to be written by prolific ''Doctor Who'' writer Dicks. | ||
*This is the first time the [[Cybermen (Pete's World)|Cybermen]] have featured in a prose piece since the beginning of the revived series. They would not appear in text again until ''[[Plague of the Cybermen (novel)|Plague of the Cybermen]]'' featuring the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. The [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] had, however, featured in past novels such as ''[[Killing Ground (novel)|Killing Ground]]'', ''[[Illegal Alien (novel)|Illegal Alien]]'' and ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]''. | * This is the first time the [[Cybermen (Pete's World)|Cybermen]] have featured in a prose piece since the beginning of the revived series. They would not appear in text again until ''[[Plague of the Cybermen (novel)|Plague of the Cybermen]]'' featuring the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. The [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] had, however, featured in past novels such as ''[[Killing Ground (novel)|Killing Ground]]'', ''[[Illegal Alien (novel)|Illegal Alien]]'' and ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]''. | ||
* This novella was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store. | * This novella was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store. | ||
* Because this novel refers to the events of [[TV]]: ''[[Smith and Jones (TV story)|Smith and Jones]]'', and ''[[The Lazarus Experiment (TV story)|The Lazarus Experiment]]'', but was released well before either, it slightly [[spoiler|spoiled]] those episodes. This wasn't the first time prose from Dicks had spoiled a televised story; his [[The Five Doctors (novelisation)|novelisation of ''The Five Doctors'']] was also released in advance of transmission. | * Because this novel refers to the events of [[TV]]: ''[[Smith and Jones (TV story)|Smith and Jones]]'', and ''[[The Lazarus Experiment (TV story)|The Lazarus Experiment]]'', but was released well before either, it slightly [[spoiler|spoiled]] those episodes. This wasn't the first time prose from Dicks had spoiled a televised story; his [[The Five Doctors (novelisation)|novelisation of ''The Five Doctors'']] was also released in advance of transmission. | ||
* The ''[[Torchwood]]'' episode [[TV]]: ''[[Cyberwoman (TV story)|Cyberwoman]]'' also focuses on the issue of Cybermen left behind after the events of [[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]''. | * The ''[[Torchwood]]'' episode [[TV]]: ''[[Cyberwoman (TV story)|Cyberwoman]]'' also focuses on the issue of Cybermen left behind after the events of [[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]''. | ||
* Despite his distaste for weapons, the Doctor uses a rocket launcher to destroy a Cyberman during the story. However, he shows disgust over having done so. | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||