BASIC PLOT
The inhabitants of the city of Arkhaven are pinning all their hopes on a giant ship that will take them from their doomed world to a new life. But Arkhaven is a city of secrets and deceptions.

DOCTOR
First.

COMPANIONS
Ian, Barbara and Susan.

MATERIALISATION CIRCUIT
On top of a skyscraper, the city of Arkhaven, Sarath.

PREPARATORY READING
None.

CONTINUITY REFERENCES
Pg 2 "They had been Susan's teachers back on earth in 1963" An Unearthly Child.

Pg 7 "The Daleks lived in a great city, yet I'd hardly call them civilised" The Daleks.

Pg 40 "Her pulse rate had also been very low [...] she consulted the cardiac display, noticing a curious double echo" Reference to Susan's alien biology (see Continuity Cock Ups)

Pg 41 "Otherwise she would be forced to take the final option, which would be dangerously premature at her age" Almost certainly Regeneration (see Continuity Cock Ups).

Pg 87 "I might be able to duplicate a key" The Daleks also suggested that the Doctor could build another TARDIS key, but it's complicated.

Pg 88 "It might be an idea to arrange some other means of getting inside the TARDIS in an emergency." Possibly a reference to the Doctor later keeping a spare key above the P in The Telemovie.

Pg 97 "Susan emerged from her self-induced healing trance" The Doctor does this on a number of occasions (most notably in Spearhead from Space), so it's interesting to see that Susan can too.

Pgs 206-207 "I was a pupil at Coal Hill school and I gave you such problems in science classes... Then you and Barbara followed me back to Totter's Yard." An Unearthly Child (see Continuity Cock Ups).

Pg 279 "Oh, a nice quiet country garden, perhaps?" This book is set before Planet of Giants and in that story the TARDIS crew do indeed end up in a nice quiet country garden.

OLD FRIENDS AND OLD ENEMIES
None.

NEW FRIENDS AND NEW ENEMIES
Curton, Plax, Nyra, Lord Vendam and an android double of Susan.

CONTINUITY COCK-UPS

1. Pg 40 "She consulted the cardiac display, noticing a curious double echo" Other First Doctor novels (specifically Man in the Velvet Mask) establish that Time Lords only have one heart before the regenerate, yet Susan has two. Also, on page 41 she thinks: "Otherwise she would be forced to take the final option, which would be dangerously premature at her age" Lungbarrow establishes that Susan is from the Old Time, before Time Lords had regeneration.
2. Pg 88 "What was it about Susan's medical report that has them so puzzled?" Ian appears not to realise that the Doctor and Susan are aliens, contradicting An Unearthly Child.
3. Pgs 206-207 "Then you and Barbara followed me back to Totter's Yard." The yard was I.M. Foreman's, it was the lane that the junkyard was on that was called Totter's Lane.

PLUGGING THE HOLES [Fan-wank theorizing of how to fix continuity cock-ups]

1. We know that Susan is different anyway, plus the Other is also an anomaly, having regeneration himself when other Gallifreyans of his time don't, so it's no surprise that weird things are up with Susan.
2. Ian might not have realised that their biology was also different, since it's reasonable to assume that aliens who outwardly look like humans might have the same biology.
3. 'Totter's Yard' might have been the previous name of the junkyard.

FEATURED ALIEN RACES
The Taklarians, seven feet tall bronze skinned warriors.

FEATURED LOCATIONS
The city of Arkhaven, Sarath, several thousand years beyond 1963.

Mirath, the nearest planet.

IN SUMMARY - Robert Smith?
Not too shabby! City at World's End is easily Bulis's best book. The original characters are mostly cliches, but the regulars shine. The book's plot is the engine which drives it, twisting and turning again and again. It's a great self-contained story, told with a minimum of fuss and a few really nice surprises.