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* The various personal lives and backgrounds of Ashe's colonists and Interplanetary Mining Corporation personnel are greatly expanded in the novelisation. Dent, for instance, has a wife arranged by IMC's matchmaking computers and two children who are being educated in an IMC school. | * The various personal lives and backgrounds of Ashe's colonists and Interplanetary Mining Corporation personnel are greatly expanded in the novelisation. Dent, for instance, has a wife arranged by IMC's matchmaking computers and two children who are being educated in an IMC school. | ||
* The Earth that the colonists migrated from is elaborated upon in the novelisation. Metric units of measurement were adopted globally there some 6000 years ago and, in Dent's lifetime, it was fashionable to dye one's hair blue. On nonwork days, you could pay to [[Sunshine Treat|journey up to experience sunshine on the concrete]]. Alternatively, you could invest in a Walk: a cubicle with a moving floor that took you through projected footage taken from the State Archives of historic greenery. Space travellers had well-developed legends surrounding the Daleks, Monoids, Drahvins and Earth's own mythology about the Silurians. | * The Earth that the colonists migrated from is elaborated upon in the novelisation. Metric units of measurement were adopted globally there some 6000 years ago and, in Dent's lifetime, it was fashionable to dye one's hair blue. On nonwork days, you could pay to [[Sunshine Treat|journey up to experience sunshine on the concrete]]. Alternatively, you could invest in a Walk: a cubicle with a moving floor that took you through projected footage taken from the State Archives of historic greenery. Space travellers had well-developed legends surrounding the Daleks, Monoids, Drahvins and Earth's own mythology about the Silurians. | ||
* IMC's robot is a Class 3 Servo Robot, humanoid in shape, and nicknamed Charlie. | * IMC's robot is a Class 3 Servo Robot, humanoid in shape, and nicknamed Charlie. The Doctor expects it to crush his arm in response to a jibe, but instead the machine instead repeats his insult back to him on a recording (with the addition of metallic laughter). | ||
* Fitting the unusual chronological rewrite, only the Doctor recognises the Master when he and Jo arrive at the tribunal being mediated between the colonists and IMC. Rather than being somewhat taken aback by the appearance of a fellow Time Lord as on television, the Master instead smiles and holds the Doctor at arm's length. Nonetheless, despite this being Jo's first story, the Doctor still possesses the key he recovered from [[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]''. Here, it was found on a previous, unspecified adventure. | * Fitting the unusual chronological rewrite, only the Doctor recognises the Master when he and Jo arrive at the tribunal being mediated between the colonists and IMC. Rather than being somewhat taken aback by the appearance of a fellow Time Lord, as on television, the Master instead smiles and holds the Doctor at arm's length. Nonetheless, despite this being Jo's first story, the Doctor still possesses the key he recovered from [[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]''. Here, it was found on a previous, unspecified adventure. | ||
* The Guardian is depicted as a doll-like creature that exists within the furnace of the atomic reactor used to power the Doomsday Weapon. Rather than the Doctor activating a self-destruct mechanism, it retreats and begins a meltdown of its own accord. | * The Guardian is depicted as a doll-like creature that exists within the furnace of the atomic reactor used to power the Doomsday Weapon. Rather than the Doctor activating a self-destruct mechanism, it retreats and begins a meltdown of its own accord. | ||
* The ecological change in the planet is more immediately drastic at the end of the novelisation. Grass and shrubbery begins to sprout from the tilled soil around the dome in seconds, not long after a pleasant rainfall. The Doctor jokes that he and Jo should depart before the surrounding farmland turns into an impenetrable jungle. | * The ecological change in the planet is more immediately drastic at the end of the novelisation. Grass and shrubbery begins to sprout from the tilled soil around the dome in seconds, not long after a pleasant rainfall. The Doctor jokes that he and Jo should depart before the surrounding farmland turns into an impenetrable jungle. | ||