Continuity
- Whilst mocking the Doctor, the boy from Faction Paradox mentions that the Doctor could be an exile from the 49th century, a reference to the original, un-broadcast version of An Unearthly Child.
- The Doctor's inability to see the colour violet saves his life in the later novel To the Slaughter.
- This novel ends the Dark Sam plot arc. She was first seen in Alien Bodies, and briefly mentioned in Seeing I and The Taint.
- It is implied that Professor Daniel Joyce is the Doctor's father. His name is a reference to various un-made Doctor Who scripts that gave the Doctor's father's name as Ulysses and the book of the same name's author, James Joyce. In the final Eighth Doctor book The Gallifrey Chronicles, a flashback shows a Time Lord character called Ulysses also working with someone called Larna and a human called Penelope who might be the Doctor's human mother.
- Joyce's assistant Larna, may be the same Larna from The Infinity Doctors as several other plot points from The Infinity Doctors are mentioned briefly in the book. However, the canonicity of The Infinity Doctors is still under debate.
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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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