Combat Rock (Doctor Who)

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Combat Rock
Doctor Who book

Series	Past Doctor Adventures
Release number	55
Featuring	Second Doctor Victoria and Jamie
Writer	Mick Lewis
Publisher	BBC Books
ISBN	ISBN 0-563-53855-4
Set between	The Ice Warriors and The Enemy of the World May also follow Dreams of Empire. Or The Abominable Snowmen.
No. of pages	288
Release date	July 2, 2002
Preceded by	Ten Little Aliens
Followed by	The Suns of Caresh

Combat Rock is a BBC Books original novel written by Mick Lewis and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Second Doctor, Victoria and Jamie.

Like all Doctor Who spin-off media, its canonicity in relation to the television series is unclear.

The story is semi-autobiographical, drawing on Lewis's own experiences in the region, and encompasses an extended allegory on Indonesia's colonial treatment of Irian Jaya. The characters of Jamie and Victoria are also used to explore post-colonial themes.

[edit] Placement

Its precise placement in the series continuity is not stated. The Doctor describes landing on a tropical beach as a "welcome change", implying that their last landing was in a more inhospitable place like in the serial The Ice Warriors or the novel Dreams of Empire. However, it could equally fit in between many of the stories with the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria, in particular the ending of The Abominable Snowmen.