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* Despite this, Tegan attempts to change history in a minor way. However, events end up not being changed at all — something that doesn't surprise the Doctor. | * Despite this, Tegan attempts to change history in a minor way. However, events end up not being changed at all — something that doesn't surprise the Doctor. | ||
* Further history of the [[Osiran]]s is detailed in this story. | * Further history of the [[Osiran]]s is detailed in this story. | ||
== Illustrations == | |||
The BBC e-book of ''The Sands of Time'' contained several illustrations by [[Peter McKinstry]]. | |||
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File:Sands of Time Prologue.jpg|<div style="font-size:80%;line-height:100%">"She was hardly more than a girl, her eyes betraying her fear as she shivered in the warm rain. The Preists stood either side of her holding her arms out from her body. Their heads were lowered - perhaps in shame, perhaps in an effort to keep them dry."</div> | |||
File:Sands of Time Chapter 2.jpg|<div style="font-size:80%;line-height:100%">"Nyssa was being drawn closer, into the kaleidoscope of light. She clasped her hands tightly over her shoulders as the blackness closed around her and Rassul's laughter faded into the hazy darkness."</div> | |||
File:Sands of Time Chapter 4.jpg|<div style="font-size:80%;line-height:100%">"The tree quivered and shook as a heavy object washed up against it, jamming hard in the mud. In a moment it was quiet again. Just the river, the breeze, the reeds and the tree. And the solid blue box of the TARDIS stuck fast in the muddy bank of the ancient river Nile."</div> | |||
File:Sands of Time Chapter 5.jpg|<div style="font-size:80%;line-height:100%">The excavation was a huge pit in the desert, at the base of a sandy mound. On the side of the pit below the mound, the wall of sand was interrupted by the shining black marble of the pyramid side."</div> | |||
File:Sands of Time Chapter 6.jpg|<div style="font-size:80%;line-height:100%">"Each of the figures was seven feet tall. Heavy legs moving the body stiffly forward with a rolling motion that transferref the weight of the mummy from one leg to the other as the figure twisted its was forwards towards the central dias."</div> | |||
File:Sands of Time Chapter 7.jpg|<div style="font-size:80%;line-height:100%">"Simons lifted his hands slowly to her neck and sher closed her eyes, lifting her head towards his. She tried not to flinch when the stench grew stronger as he leaned forward, pushing her back on to the bed."</div> | |||
File:Sands of Time Chapter 10.jpg|<div style="font-size:80%;line-height:100%">"Her hand was on the light switch when she saw the rows of specimen jars. She was already in the process of turning out the light as she began to realize what the shapes floating inside the discoloured fluids might be."</div> | |||
File:Sands of Time Chapter 11.jpg|<div style="font-size:80%;line-height:100%">"'Exactly.' the Doctor smiled. 'Now then...' He twisted round trying to get his bearings, licking his index finger and holding it up. Then he stared out across the desert sands in the opposite direction to the crater. 'That way, I think.'"</div> | |||
File:Sands of Time Chapter 12.jpg|<div style="font-size:80%;line-height:100%">"Norris gaped at the mummy in amazement. Then he raised the shotgun to his shoulder and fired. One of the barrels spat flame and the mummy lurched back under the impact. The bandages on the upper body tore and smoked as the lead shot ripped through."</div> | |||
File:Sands of Time Chapter 15.jpg|<div style="font-size:80%;line-height:100%">"A drunk stirred in the gutter as one of the massive figures stepped over him. He stared in fuzzy horror at the shape moving above him, then dragged himself to his feet and fled noisily in the opposite direction."</div> | |||
File:Sands of Time Alternate Ending.jpg|<div style="font-size:80%;line-height:100%">"The Chronicler peered into the glowing embers of reality. Deep within the holosphere, a single quantum choice played itself out for him. He was at one with the world he watched, oblivious to the great hallway in which he worked."</div> | |||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
