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* Doctor Anthony Ridge has a brother called John, a reference to Dr John Ridge in ''Doomwatch''. | * Doctor Anthony Ridge has a brother called John, a reference to Dr John Ridge in ''Doomwatch''. | ||
*The stories predate the 1968 story ''The Invasion'', and Professor Watkins is featured in ''The Synthetic Man'', detailing his first encounter with Tobias Vaughn and Packer. | *The stories predate the 1968 story ''The Invasion'', and Professor Watkins is featured in ''The Synthetic Man'', detailing his first encounter with Tobias Vaughn and Packer. | ||
*Banks goes undercover as a [[South Africa|South African]] mercenary called Van Hereden, pretending he assisted the 1968 coup in the [[Congo]]. | |||
*At the end of the book, the alternate timeline is called "[[The Dark Dimension (TV story)|the dark dimension]]". | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
*Stone says it is 8th April 1967 in ''The Damocles Project''. In ''The Synthetic Man'', the Congo coup of September 1968 has happened "only a few weeks ago". | |||
* The book comprises of four short stories. The first three are interlinked. The fourth story is an unpublished 'lost' ''Lethbridge-Stewart'' story, Originally planned as a free on-line story via the Candy Jar Books website, it was held back when it was realised the theme of the Brigadier being imprisoned clashed with the plot of their book ''Mind Of Stone.'' | * The book comprises of four short stories. The first three are interlinked. The fourth story is an unpublished 'lost' ''Lethbridge-Stewart'' story, Originally planned as a free on-line story via the Candy Jar Books website, it was held back when it was realised the theme of the Brigadier being imprisoned clashed with the plot of their book ''Mind Of Stone.'' | ||
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* Grubber's Moles retrieved technology from the [[Shoreditch Incident]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') and the [[Post Office Tower]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Machines (TV story)|The War Machines]]''). | * Grubber's Moles retrieved technology from the [[Shoreditch Incident]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') and the [[Post Office Tower]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Machines (TV story)|The War Machines]]''). | ||
* The third story shows the abduction of [[Watkins|Professor Watkins]] by Vaughn. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'') | * The third story shows the abduction of [[Watkins|Professor Watkins]] by Vaughn. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'') | ||
* Vaughn is trying to build a group of satellites that will broadcast a message into space. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'') | |||
* In the alternate timeline, [[World War II]] was fought by [[Neville Chamberlain]] (with [[Winston Churchill]] unknown by Travers) against [[Josef Stalin]] and the [[Soviet Union]], while Hitler was shot the day the war started. The British Rocket Group later made a publicly successful rocket launch in 1952, making Travers and Quebec famous. An excavated dinosaur skeleton at Christmas 1960 caused a "near riot". In the late Sixties, a fascist group called the Esteem Party looked set to take over the country with internment camps for IQs under 110 and class segregation, before an unnamed figure replaced each Esteem MP with his own men, then sent a militia to burn down Parliament. | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
