Notes
This novel a sequel to the Third Doctor serial Inferno. Contrary to the Third Doctor's assumptions, the alternate Earth depicted therein did not disintegrate after his departure, but many previously human survivors have been mutated into subsentient Primords by the outgassing of their world's mantle.
The novel not only features the Brigadier, UNIT, and the Master, all contemporaneous to the era of the programme in which the story is set, but it also includes appearances by Ian and Barbara after they left the TARDIS (with an interesting update on their activities in the interim), and Harry before he joined UNIT or met the Doctor.
It is notable for being the only Past Doctor Adventure which does not greatly involve the Doctor in any incarnation, although the Third Doctor and Jo Grant have brief, cameo appearances.
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