Speed of Flight
 Cover Art | |
| Author | Paul Leonard |
|---|---|
| Series | Doctor Who book: Virgin Missing Adventures |
Release number | 27 |
| Subject | Featuring: Third Doctor Jo, Mike Yates |
| Set in | Period between Dancing the Code and Last of the Gaderene[1][2] |
| Publisher | Virgin Books |
Publication date | October 1996 |
| Pages | 244 |
| ISBN | 0-426-20487-5 |
| Preceded by | Twilight of the Gods |
| Followed by | The Plotters |
Speed of Flight is an original novel written by Paul Leonard and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Third Doctor, Jo and Mike Yates.
Plot
[edit]The TARDIS lands on Nooma, a world in the midst of an industrial revolution. But the Doctor, Jo and Mike Yates quickly discover more: The sky is at war with the ground, with continents moving and somewhere, a starship has a role to play. Mike finds himself in a life or death fight, Jo is caught in a laborers' rebellion, and the Doctor must uncover what is happening to Nooma before the struggle for survival destroys all...
Continuity
[edit]The story takes place after the Missing Adventure Dancing the Code, also by Paul Leonard.
This storyline is a technical prequel to the Sixth Doctor story "Timelash", as the Doctor is intending to take Jo and Mike to the planet Karfel although he never reaches it in this novel; "Timelash" made it clear that the Third Doctor had visited Karfel at some unrecorded point with Jo Grant and an unidentified second companion.
References
[edit]- ^ The Doctor's Timeline at The Whoniverse gives support for specific placement relative to other spin-off media.
- ^ Placement between Planet of the Daleks and The Green Death confirmed by cover blurb.