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=== Individuals === | === Individuals === | ||
* Polly spent a week in [[1963]] working at a [[charity shop]]. | * Polly spent a week in [[1963]] working at a [[charity shop]]. | ||
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* The story is set in May '90, but the millennium and century are unspecified. The reference book [[AHistory|A''History'']] places the year as circa [[2890]], as it is set during a time when Earth's empire is strong. | * The story is set in May '90, but the millennium and century are unspecified. The reference book [[AHistory|A''History'']] places the year as circa [[2890]], as it is set during a time when Earth's empire is strong. | ||
* The spacesuits worn here are the ones later seen in the television story ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]''. | * The spacesuits worn here are the ones later seen in the television story ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]''. | ||
*The book includes an in-universe dossier giving the biographies of the Anti-Terror Elite soldiers featured in the main narrative. Stephen Cole writes in the author's notes that he wrote this as a frame of reference for the characters, and decided to include it in the book proper for the reader's benefit. | * The book includes an in-universe dossier giving the biographies of the Anti-Terror Elite soldiers featured in the main narrative. Stephen Cole writes in the author's notes that he wrote this as a frame of reference for the characters, and decided to include it in the book proper for the reader's benefit. | ||
* The book takes on an unusual format from pages 196 to 244, taking on the style of a '[[Decide Your Destiny]]' book during the sequence when the characters are linked in the [[neural network]], allowing the reader to switch between the first person perspectives of each of the characters, excluding the Doctor | * The book takes on an unusual format from pages 196 to 244, taking on the style of a '[[Decide Your Destiny]]' book during the sequence when the characters are linked in the [[neural network]], allowing the reader to switch between the first person perspectives of each of the characters, excluding the Doctor | ||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* The Doctor can sense [[First Doctor's renewal|his upcoming regeneration]] into his [[Second Doctor|second incarnation]], telling Ben that he will soon feel a new person. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'') As will be the case with his [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]] considerably later in his personal timeline, he is apprehensive about the inevitable change, ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') which will later result in his refusal to regenerate entirely. ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon A Time]]'') | * The Doctor can sense [[First Doctor's renewal|his upcoming regeneration]] into his [[Second Doctor|second incarnation]], telling Ben that he will soon feel a new person. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'') As will be the case with his [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]] considerably later in his personal timeline, he is apprehensive about the inevitable change, ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') which will later result in his refusal to regenerate entirely. ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon A Time]]'') | ||
* The Kill-Droid reminds Ben of the [[War Machine]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Machines (TV story)|The War Machines]]'') | * The Kill-Droid reminds Ben of the [[War Machine]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Machines (TV story)|The War Machines]]'') | ||
* Creben refers to [[spectrox]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani (TV story)|The Caves of Androzani]]'') | * Creben refers to [[spectrox]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani (TV story)|The Caves of Androzani]]'') | ||
