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== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
* [[Tenth Doctor]] | * [[Tenth Doctor]] | ||
* [[Rose Tyler]] | * [[Rose Tyler]] | ||
* [[Kate Yates]] | * [[Kate Yates]] | ||
* [[Frank Openshaw]] | * [[Frank Openshaw]] | ||
* [[Serena (I am a Dalek)|Serena]] | * [[Serena (I am a Dalek)|Serena]] | ||
* [[Sandra Openshaw]] | * [[Sandra Openshaw]] | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
* Some birds that live where [[Kate Yates]] works are [[curlew]]s and [[kingfisher]]s. | * Some birds that live where [[Kate Yates]] works are [[curlew]]s and [[kingfisher]]s. | ||
* | * The Tenth Doctor plans to confuse future explorers by planting a [[Women's Institute]] flag on [[the Moon]]. | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* This short novel (or novella) was the first release under a subsidiary banner of BBC Books, [[Quick Reads]], an initiative to promote literacy. Quick Reads novellas are considerably shorter than the usual releases in the [[BBC Tenth Doctor Adventures]] line, roughly equivalent in word count to some of the shorter [[Target Books]] novelisations. ''I am a Dalek'' was released exclusively in paperback format, the first New Series Adventure to not be published in hard cover. | * This short novel (or novella) was the first release under a subsidiary banner of BBC Books, [[Quick Reads]], an initiative to promote literacy. Quick Reads novellas are considerably shorter than the usual releases in the [[BBC Tenth Doctor Adventures]] line, roughly equivalent in word count to some of the shorter [[Target Books]] novelisations. ''I am a Dalek'' was released exclusively in paperback format, the first New Series Adventure to not be published in hard cover. | ||
* 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. | ||
* 69,000 copies have been sold. | * 69,000 copies have been sold.{{fact}} | ||
* The publisher's summary states that Kate is hit by a [[bus]]. Within the story itself, she is hit by a [[car]]. | * The publisher's summary states that Kate is hit by a [[bus]]. Within the story itself, she is hit by a [[car]]. | ||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* This is the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s first encounter with the Daleks. He would later encounter them in [[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]''/''[[Doomsday]]'', ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]''/''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Journey's End]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Carnage Zoo]]''/''[[Flight and Fury]]''/''[[The Living Ghosts]]''/''[[Extermination of the Daleks]]'', and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Daleks]]''. | * This is the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s first encounter with the Daleks. He would later encounter them in [[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]''/''[[Doomsday]]'', ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]''/''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Journey's End]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Carnage Zoo]]''/''[[Flight and Fury]]''/''[[The Living Ghosts]]''/''[[Extermination of the Daleks]]'', and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Daleks]]''. | ||
* This isn't the first time the Daleks attempted to use modified humans as puppets: The [[Fifth Doctor]] had already faced Dalek duplicates in ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]''; The [[Dalek Emperor]] had managed to produce pure-blood Daleks from human DNA in ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]''; [[Dalek Sec]] had turned himself into the first Dalek-human hybrid as an experiment to convert all humans to Daleks in ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]''; and the Eleventh Doctor was captured by a [[Dalek puppet]] and met Oswin, an echo of [[Clara Oswald]], who had suffered a complete Dalek-conversion in ''[[Asylum of the Daleks]]''. | * This isn't the first time the Daleks attempted to use modified humans as puppets: The [[Fifth Doctor]] had already faced Dalek duplicates in [[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]''; The [[Dalek Emperor]] had managed to produce pure-blood Daleks from human DNA in [[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]''; [[Dalek Sec]] had turned himself into the first Dalek-human hybrid as an experiment to convert all humans to Daleks in [[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]''; and the Eleventh Doctor was captured by a [[Dalek puppet]] and met Oswin, an echo of [[Clara Oswald]], who had suffered a complete Dalek-conversion in [[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks]]''. | ||
* The Dalek Factor plan is similiar to the Dalek Emperor's plan in ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)|The Evil of the Daleks]]'' | * The Dalek Factor plan is similiar to the Dalek Emperor's plan in [[TV]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)|The Evil of the Daleks]]'' | ||
* Rose recalls destroying the Daleks after absorbing the Time Vortex | * Rose recalls destroying the Daleks after absorbing the Time Vortex. ([[TV]]: [[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|''The Parting of the Ways'']]) | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
