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Speed of Flight

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Speed of Flight
Cover Art
AuthorPaul Leonard
SeriesDoctor Who book:
Virgin Missing Adventures
Release number
27
SubjectFeaturing:
Third Doctor
Jo, Mike Yates
Set inPeriod between
Dancing the Code and Last of the Gaderene[1][2]
PublisherVirgin Books
Publication date
October 1996
Pages244
ISBN0-426-20487-5
Preceded byTwilight of the Gods 
Followed byThe 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

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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

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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

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  1. ^ The Doctor's Timeline at The Whoniverse gives support for specific placement relative to other spin-off media.
  2. ^ Placement between Planet of the Daleks and The Green Death confirmed by cover blurb.
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