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* This was the second release in the BBC Books paperback-only Quick Reads series, and the first New Series-related work to be written by prolific ''Doctor Who'' novelist Dicks; Dicks also served a script editor for the series in the early 1970s and wrote numerous episodes in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, making this the first time a writer from the original series has been involved in a New Series-related product. The book marked Martha Jones' public debut as it was not only released prior to her debut in the standard hard cover book series, but also prior to her first television appearance in ''[[Smith and Jones]]''.

* This was the only [[Quick Reads]] novella of the five to feature an enemy which is not featured in another [[New Series Adventures|New Series Adventure]] novel. The [[Dalek]]s appered in ''[[Prisoner of the Daleks]]'', the [[Judoon]] appeared in ''[[Judgement of the Judoon]]'', the [[Sontaran]]s appeared in ''[[The Taking of Chelsea 426]]'' and the [[Krillitane]]s appeared in ''[[The Krillitane Storm]]''. The [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|Cybermen]], however, do not feature in any other such novel. This is the only time the [[Pete's World]] variant has featured in print, and the only time so far any [[Cybermen]] have featured in a new series novel.

** The [[Weeping Angels]] too appeared in the New Series Adventure novel ''[[Touched by an Angel]]'', and they also appeared as the Quick Reads novellas continued for the [[Eleventh Doctor]] in ''[[Magic of the Angels]]'', still leaving the Cybermen as the only Quick Reads-featured enemy to appear in a standard novel.