Continuity
- This is the first Ninth Doctor story, televised or otherwise, to take place away from Earth. (The acknowledgements thank Russell T Davies for letting the author 'take Rose to her first alien planet'.)
- The Justicia System is mentioned in the episode "Boom Town", making this the first spin-off book to be referenced on-screen.
- This book features another family from the same race as the Slitheen called the Blathereen, who were later mentioned in The Sarah Jane Adventures double episodes Revenge of the Slitheen and The Lost Boy and appear in the season 3 story The Gift.
- When under threat from a Blathereen, Dennel comments that "The big bad wolf's ready to blow our house down", the Bad Wolf reference follows the re-occurring theme of Series 1.
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“There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.”
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