The Doctor, Steven, and Vicki travel to what seems to be Venice in 1609, where they meet a host of historical characters including Galileo Galilei and William Shakespeare.
Ottoman Empire | Order of the British Empire | Russian Empire | Roman Empire | British Empire | Holy Roman Empire | German Empire | Byzantine Empire | Mughal Empire | Austrian Empire | First French Empire | Empire of Japan | Empire State Building | Vijayanagara Empire | stained glass | Spanish Empire | Boardwalk Empire | Empire | The Glass Menagerie | Through the Looking-Glass | Mongol Empire | Second French Empire | Order of the Indian Empire | Portuguese Empire | glass | Achaemenid Empire | Parthian Empire | Maratha Empire | Western Roman Empire | Seleucid Empire |
In the acknowledgements for The Empire of Glass, Lane notes that All-Consuming Fire was his own version of Tim Powers' The Anubis Gates.