Continuity
- Orman's next novel SLEEPY states that the Doctor's one thousandth birthday occurs during the events of this novel, while Ms. Cohen is trying to revive him on board Ship. This is broadly consistent with the Doctor's age being 953 during Time and the Rani, but is later contradicted by the revived series that established the Ninth Doctor's age as being around 900.
- Rifts in time and space causing unexplained events and alien invasions are a key element of the new Doctor Who series and spin-off Torchwood, although there the rift is in Cardiff. Curiously, Ace's exploration of the rift reveals that it influence ends in 2006, the year that the first series of Torchwood was made.
- Ace ending up in Paris is established in Ian Brigg's novelisation of The Curse of Fenric, as is her relationship with Count Sorin (an ancestor of Captain Sorin, who appeared in that story). Ace also explains to Denon that one of the paintings in the Louvre is of her. The Duke of Wellington eventually puts it in Windsor castle after Waterloo. The painting is first seen in the video version of Silver Nemesis, but cut from the broadcast version.
- The cult of Set or Sutekh originally appears in Pyramids of Mars. The Doctor comments to Benny that Sutekh himself killed the last member in that serial.
- As this is Ace's last story as a proper companion a number aspects of the novel's plot are reflective of past stories; her falling through the rift and eventually becoming a waitress echoes Dragonfire, her hatred and desire to fight fascism ties into Remembrance of the Daleks and Silver Nemesis and there are also references to the fire bombing of her friend Manasha's flat first mentioned in the Remembrance of the Daleks novelisation and on screen in Ghost Light. This is also the first place that her surname is established as McShane. Ace re-appears in the novels, Head Games, Happy Endings and Lungbarrow. Denon is a guest at Bernice's wedding in Happy Endings. Different accounts of her departure from the TARDIS feature in the BBC webcast Death Comes to Time, where Ace inherits the Time Lords' role after their extinction and the Doctor Who Monthly comic strip "Ground Zero" in which she is killed.
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