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== Deviations from televised story == | == Deviations from televised story == | ||
* The Keeper of the Time Lord Files, distracted from a viewing of the first TARDIS's working papers, retells the story of [[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'' to an apprentice who will one day succeed his position. | * The Keeper of the Time Lord Files, distracted from a viewing of the first TARDIS's working papers, retells the story of [[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'' to an apprentice who will one day succeed his position, after the apprentice has asked the Keeper about the history between the Doctor and the Master. | ||
* Both Jo Grant and the Master are given new introductions, with Jo in particular described as joining the Doctor for the first time, despite several earlier stories featuring her. As one of the first releases in the Target Books series, there was no expectation that ''all'' stories would eventually be adapted. Once the earlier stories had been novelised, no attempt was made at revising ''The Doomsday Weapon'', creating a continuity hiccough for those reading the novelisations in chronological order. | * Both Jo Grant and the Master are given new introductions, with Jo in particular described as joining the Doctor for the first time, despite several earlier stories featuring her. As one of the first releases in the Target Books series, there was no expectation that ''all'' stories would eventually be adapted. Once the earlier stories had been novelised, no attempt was made at revising ''The Doomsday Weapon'', creating a continuity hiccough for those reading the novelisations in chronological order. | ||
* 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. | ||
