So here I am, exactly eight years on from writing The Scales of Injustice, and now giving it a read for the first time since then. Golly, but it's full of continuity nonsense, isn't it? There's a temptation to rush through this online version and do a search and replace for all the familiar character names and put in new ones, just so I don't look such a twit. But then again, just as I loathe those filmmakers who go back and create new effects and insert new characters into old movies, it'd be wrong of me to make this book a "director's cut" style thingy. I'm simply not convinced that I wouldn't make it worse rather than better (oh if only the director of ET had shown the same degree of self-awareness!).

So here we are, the Memo prologues and Episode One, and some dreary notes.

I liked the Memo idea, I just thought that was a better 'pre-credits' sequence than an actual chapter, and as the book was created at the height of X-Files mania, it seemed appropriate. Also, the idea of the story being in seven episodes rather than chapters was appealing, although I'd done it before, with my previous book, the so-terribly successful and popular Invasion of the Cat-People. It just seemed neater and more Doctor Who-like than straight chapters.

So, within the Memo section, we face references to Sir John Sudbury and his C19, who of course was first mentioned by the Fifth Doctor in Time-Flight. The memo is from Cambridge (ie an old associate of Liz Shaw) Professor Andrew Montrose, a character from an old amateur Doctor Who audio play I'd directed called Justyce (Montrose was played by fellow Big Finish writer/director Nicholas Pegg by the way. That Montrose however was from the far future - I just ripped off the name).