Continuity
- Although Mel and Sgt. Benton are the chief companions for the novel, many others are mentioned or have brief cameos, including: The Brigadier, Sarah Jane Smith, Jo Grant, Romana, Leela, Mike Yates, Susan, Ace, Adric, Katarina and Kamelion.
- Co-ordinator Vansell appears in Sirens of Time, The Apocalypse Element, Neverland and He Jests at Scars....
- This book offers a different explanation for the Sixth Doctor's regeneration from both the televised series of events in Time and the Rani and the official novel Spiral Scratch. It is explained that the events of Spiral Scratch were an alternate reality experienced by Mel.
- The Valeyard appears as the Keeper, which sets the events of this novel some fifty years after The Trial of a Time Lord.
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“Every society consists of men in the process of developing from children into parents. To assure continuity of tradition, society must early prepare for parenthood in its children; and it must take care of the unavoidable remnants of infantility in its adults. This is a large order, especially since a society needs many beings who can follow, a few who can lead, and some who can do both, alternately or in different areas of life.”
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“Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men’s reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.”
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“Only the family, society’s smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be “strangers in a strange land,” who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.”
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