User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-6032121-20181104204754/@comment-28349479-20181105175258

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-6032121-20181104204754/@comment-28349479-20181105175258 "DOCTOR: I can see things in my mind's eye. I can see me, thousands of mes doing difference things in different places, but all at once. Alternative realities. Or maybe this is an alternative, and one of those others is real. You're part of me. Can't you see what I'm seeing?

ZAGREUS: Always.

DOCTOR: Look there. I see myself on the planet Oblivion, facing a race called the Horde. And there, look. A tiny reality where Gallifrey isn't a planet but a timeless diamond, drifting through the stars. I can see a universe where the Time Lords have terrible mind powers, and another where they have ceased to exist. Time wound backwards to eliminate their every trace. A planet, Earth, where the Nestenes very nearly destroyed everything. And another Earth, upon which I have plucked out one of my own hearts. But which is real, and which are the alternatives?

ZAGREUS: There is no alternative.

DOCTOR: You mean no one knows which reality is the real one?

ZAGREUS: They are all real, and primary to their inhabitants. In the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter. Who is there to care? They all exist, occasionally sharing moments, eras. The rest of the time self-contained and unaware."

- Zagreus

While the bolded text above is certainly intended to be a reference to Death Comes to Time (part of Gary Russell's list of stories that don't quite fit into his Main Range continuity) it's no less oblique than the reference to The Curse of Fatal Death in The Tomorrow Windows.

If you're looking for concrete references to Death Comes to Time, far better bets would be
 * the direct mention of Tannis in The Gallifrey Chronicles (and the admittedly more-oblique reference to the Minister of Chance in the same novel),
 * the direct mention of the Canisian invasion in Trading Futures,
 * the mentions of Anima Persis in Relative Dementias and The Tomorrow Windows, and
 * the mention of Mount Plutarch in The Three Paths.