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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* This was the second release in the BBC Books paperback-only Quick Reads series. It was the first New Series-related work to be written by prolific ''Doctor Who'' writer Dicks. Dicks also served a script editor for the series in the early 1970s and wrote many episodes in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, making this the first time a writer from the original series has been involved in a New Series-related product. The book marked Martha Jones' public debut. It was not only released before her debut in the standard hard cover book series, but before her first television appearance in ''[[Smith and Jones]]''.
* This was the first [[BBC Wales]]-related work to be written by prolific ''Doctor Who'' writer Dicks.
* This was the only [[Quick Reads]] novella of the five to feature an enemy which is not featured in another [[New Series Adventures|New Series Adventure]] novel. The [[Dalek]]s appered in ''[[Prisoner of the Daleks]]'', the [[Judoon]] appeared in ''[[Judgement of the Judoon]]'', the [[Sontaran]]s appeared in ''[[The Taking of Chelsea 426]]'' and the [[Krillitane]]s appeared in ''[[The Krillitane Storm]]''. The [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|Cybermen]], however, do not feature in any other such novel. This is the only time the [[Pete's World]] variant have featured in print, and the only time so far any [[Cybermen]] have featured in a new series novel.
*This is the only time the [[Cybermen (Pete's World)|Cybus Industries Cybermen]] have featured in a prose story.
** The [[Weeping Angels]] also appeared in the New Series Adventure novel ''[[Touched by an Angel]]'' and they also appeared as the Quick Reads novellas continued for the [[Eleventh Doctor]] in ''[[Magic of the Angels]]'',. This leaves the Cybermen as the only Quick Reads-featured enemy to appear in a standard novel.
* 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.
* This novel was published ''before'' the broadcast of [[TV]]: ''[[Smith and Jones (TV story)|Smith and Jones]]'', yet it refers to the events in that episode, making the book something of a spoiler for the season premiere (and, as noted below, the novella makes reference to the plot of [[TV]]: ''[[The Lazarus Experiment (TV story)|The Lazarus Experiment]]'' too, another episode readers would not have seen yet).
* 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]]''.


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