Christmas on a Rational Planet

Christmas on a Rational Planet
AuthorLawrence Miles
Cover artistMike Posen
SeriesDoctor Who book:
Virgin New Adventures
Release number
52
SubjectFeaturing:
Seventh Doctor
Chris, Roz
PublisherVirgin Books
Publication date
July 1996
ISBN0-426-20476-X
Preceded byGodEngine 
Followed byReturn of the Living Dad 

Christmas on a Rational Planet is an original novel written by Lawrence Miles and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Seventh Doctor, Chris and Roz.

It also contains the first casual reference to the Faction Paradox, which become an important element in the BBC books Eighth Doctor Adventures and subsequent spin-off series, and an explicit explanation that the mark carried by the Third Doctor during his exile on Earth was a branding used to distinguish criminals by the Time Lords (in reality, this mark was a tattoo of a cobra that Jon Pertwee picked up while serving in the Royal Navy).