Combat Rock (novel)

Combat Rock

Author	Mick Lewis
Series	Doctor Who book: Past Doctor Adventures
Release number	55
Subject	Featuring: Second Doctor Victoria and Jamie
Set in	Period between Dreams of Empire and The Enemy of the World^[1]^[2]
Publisher	BBC Books
Publication date	2 July 2002
Pages	284
ISBN	0-563-53855-4
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.

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.

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.

External links

Combat Rock at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
Combat Rock title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Combat Rock at The TARDIS Library

Reviews

Combat Rock reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
Combat Rock reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

References

↑ The Doctor's Timeline at The Whoniverse gives support for specific placement relative to other spin-off media.
↑ Cover blurb only specifies the Doctor's incarnation and companions.

Past Doctor Adventures
First Doctor	The Witch Hunters Salvation City at World's End Bunker Soldiers Byzantium! Ten Little Aliens The Eleventh Tiger The Time Travellers
Second Doctor	The Murder Game The Roundheads Dreams of Empire The Final Sanction Heart of TARDIS Independence Day Dying in the Sun Combat Rock The Colony of Lies The Indestructible Man World Game
Third Doctor	The Devil Goblins from Neptune The Face of the Enemy Catastrophea The Wages of Sin Last of the Gaderene Verdigris Rags Amorality Tale The Suns of Caresh Deadly Reunion Island of Death
Fourth Doctor	Eye of Heaven Last Man Running Millennium Shock Corpse Marker Tomb of Valdemar Heart of TARDIS Festival of Death Asylum Psi-ence Fiction Drift Wolfsbane Match of the Day
Fifth Doctor	The Ultimate Treasure Zeta Major Deep Blue Divided Loyalties Imperial Moon The King of Terror Superior Beings Warmonger Fear of the Dark Empire of Death
Sixth Doctor	Business Unusual Mission: Impractical Players Grave Matter The Quantum Archangel The Shadow in the Glass Instruments of Darkness Palace of the Red Sun Blue Box Synthespians™ Spiral Scratch
Seventh Doctor	Illegal Alien The Hollow Men Matrix Storm Harvest Prime Time Independence Day Bullet Time Relative Dementias Heritage Loving the Alien The Colony of Lies The Algebra of Ice Atom Bomb Blues
Eighth Doctor	Wolfsbane Fear Itself
Other	The Infinity Doctors Scream of the Shalka

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