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‘Is Penelope going to be OK?’

‘Oh, yes. I’m sure she will – fight for her divorce, go on working. The real shame is that she won’t ever have the recognition she deserves.’

‘At least she won’t have to worry about any more weird dreams. The Room With No Doors. Poor old Psychokinetic, locked away. . . ’ Chris met the Doctor’s eyes. ‘Nobody deserves that.’

‘You’re right.’ The Doctor clasped Chris’s arm. ‘No one does.’

Chris nodded. He waved his arm at the snowman as though it were a work of art. Its irregular, noseless face beamed back at them. ‘Well, what do you think?’

‘Nine out of ten, Chris,’ said the Doctor.

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Thanks to:

Rebecca Levene and Peter Darvill-Evans, Andy Bodle and all at Virgin for all these years.

Rebecca J. Anderson, for her kind permission to quote from Sacrifice.

Jeff Beuck, for the ‘Superb’ rating. :-)

Jon Blum, for writing the Doctor’s subterranean thoughts, and continuing to be full of clever insights. :-x

Dave Halfpenny, Craig A. Reed, Jr, and Kyla Ward, who know about samurai and such things.

Jim Mortimore, Lance Parkin and Marc Platt, for Useful Discussions.

Geoffrey Weasel for the Japanese translations – arigatou!

The readthrough crew: Todd Beilby, Jon Blum, Aaron Brockbank, Steven Caldwell, David Carroll, Stephen Groenewegen, James Sellwood, Kyla Ward and Grant Wittingham.

And to everyone else who helped in any way!

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Document Outline

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Contents

First Slice: The killing sword A better class of portentous dream

1: How to win

2: Blue-eyed samurai

The Room With No Doors

3: How to lose

4: Rescue (hopefully)

The Room With No Doors

5: Yes, but is it Kannon?

6: Flying Heads

7: Coffin cure

8: Waiting for the demons

In Penelope's dream

9: Pigeon English

Second Slice: The life-giving sword 10: Changing direction

11: Sixteenth-century digital boy

12: Alienation

13: Manacle depression

14: The writing on the walls

15: Cat and mouse

16: Fourth-dimension dream

17: Time's arrow

Scream of consciousness

Third Slice: No sword 18: Meanwhile, back at the monastery

Falling upwards

19: Needlessly Messianic

Unturtled

20: Half a cat is better than none

21: Out of the bag

22: Kami Chameleon

23: Life in linear time

24: Room for living

Thanks to:

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