OF THE CITY OF THE SAVED...
DOCTOR WHO REFERENCES
In case you've been wondering: yes, there is a small handful of Doctor Who references in Of the City of the Saved..., although they're hardly central to the story. (Sadly, a reference to ‘the collateral boy soprano, Kaled Jones’ was edited out.)
Here is a list of those references which made it. It's not necessarily exhaustive, but if something isn't footnoted here, the chances are it isn't a Doctor Who reference.
BOOK ONE
CHAPTER 13
Page 41
Cook was a clatteral: More precisely, Cook appears to be a human / Androgum hybrid. The Androgums appear in Robert Holmes' 1985 TV story The Two Doctors, and look much as Cllr Ignotus' cook is described here. Since the culture to which the Androgums are affiliated practises genetic augmentation and is in contact with twentieth-century Earth, this doesn't seem particularly implausible to me.
CHAPTER 17
Page 53
Rafferty Coll., Univ. of the Lower Watchtower: Allisheer St Marx's college is named after James Rafferty, Professor of Extra-Terrestrial Studies at Oxford University in Daniel Blythe's 1993 New Adventures novel The Dimension Riders. (A quotation from Prof. Rafferty also appears in Lawrence Miles's 1996 novel Christmas on a Rational Planet.)
CHAPTER 21
Page 63
the early sixth millennium AD: It's not an explicit link, but the idea of Madagascar deploying infantry in Novaya Zemlya is designed to recall the surreal future politics hinted at in Robert Holmes' 1977 TV classic The Talons of Weng-Chiang, where the Doctor refers to being ‘with the Filipino army at the final advance on Reykjavik’. Simon A. Forward's BBC eighth Doctor novel Emotional Chemistry, partially set in 5000 AD, fleshes out some of the details of this future conflict: as far as I'm aware, it contains nothing which makes the scenario suggested here unlikely.
BOOK TWO
CHAPTER 34
Page 90
silver-jumpsuited human-shapes: Are these the Movellans, the dreadlocked disco androids from Terry Nation's 1979 TV story Destiny of the Daleks? Well... since all the robots on Erath are, as we discover, derived from human technology, it has to depend which of the two alternative origin stories given for the Movellans in 1997 Doctor Who novels (specifically A Device of Death and War of the Daleks) you're inclined to accept.
BOOK THREE
CHAPTER 92
Page 224
a locomoting geodesic spheroid with integrated flame-throwing device: On the other hand, this is a fairly unequivocal reference to the Daleks' other robotic enemies, the Mechanoids. The Mechanoids first appeared in the 1965 TV story The Chase, and returned in a 2005 audio CD from Big Finish, Scott Alan Woodard's The Juggernauts.
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