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original novel written by

Mark Michalowski Mark Michalowski (born 1963 in Chesterfield) is the editor of ''Shout!'', "Yorkshire's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender paper", as well as being an author best known for his work writing spin-offs based on the BBC Television series ''Doctor ...

and based on the long-running British

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series ''

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''. It features the

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and

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Ace's name

Ace's full name is given as Dorothy Gale McShane. This resolves a naming anomaly created during sequence of BBC Books'

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set after

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and written by Mike Tucker and Robert Perry. They had used the name 'Dorothy Gale', as the authors were unaware that the name 'McShane' had been used in the

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novels.

Continuity

* Dorothy Gale McShane is given as Ace's full name in the Big Finish audio drama The Rapture. {{Seventh Doctor stories, selected=Books 2002 British novels 2002 science fiction novels Past Doctor Adventures Seventh Doctor novels Novels by Mark Michalowski