Combat Rock (Doctor Who)

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Combat Rock
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.
Number 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, the way the plot fits in to the ongoing story of television series is open to interpretation. See Whoniverse#Inclusion and canonicity

The story encompasses an extended allegory on Indonesia's colonial treatment of Irian Jaya and draws on Lewis's own experiences in the region. 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.