Speed of Flight

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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
Genre	novel
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

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

The story takes place after the Missing Adventure Dancing the Code, also by Paul Leonard.

References

↑ 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.

External links

Reviews

Speed of Flight reviews at Outpost Gallifrey (Archived)
Speed of Flight reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

Virgin Missing Adventures

First Doctor	Venusian Lullaby The Sorcerer's Apprentice The Empire of Glass The Man in the Velvet Mask The Plotters

Second Doctor	The Menagerie Invasion of the Cat-People Twilight of the Gods The Dark Path

Third Doctor	The Ghosts of N-Space Dancing the Code The Eye of the Giant The Scales of Injustice Speed of Flight

Fourth Doctor	Evolution The Romance of Crime System Shock Managra The English Way of Death The Shadow of Weng-Chiang A Device of Death The Well-Mannered War

Fifth Doctor	Goth Opera The Crystal Bucephalus Lords of the Storm The Sands of Time Cold Fusion

Sixth Doctor	State of Change Time of Your Life Millennial Rites Killing Ground Burning Heart

Seventh Doctor	Cold Fusion

None	Downtime

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