''Speed of Flight'' is an original novel written by Paul Leonard and based on the long-running British

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''. It features the

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, Jo and

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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 ''

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'', also by Paul Leonard. This storyline is a technical prequel to the

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story "

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", 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

External links

The Cloister Library - ''Speed of Flight''
{{Third Doctor stories, selected=Books 1996 British novels 1996 science fiction novels Virgin Missing Adventures Third Doctor novels British science fiction novels Novels by Paul Leonard