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'''''SLEEPY''''' is the forty-eighth novel in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] series. It featured the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Bernice Summerfield]], [[Chris Cwej]] and [[Roz Forrester]]. It is author [[Kate Orman]]'s third novel.
'''''Sleepy''''' is the forty-eighth novel in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] series. It featured the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Bernice Summerfield]], [[Chris Cwej]] and [[Roz Forrester]]. It is author [[Kate Orman]]'s third novel.


== Publisher's summary ==
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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* This is another of Kate Orman's novels to feature [[pyramid]]s.
* This is another of Kate Orman's novels to feature [[pyramid]]s.
* Orman's back-cover author profile makes fun of the fact that, as of this book's publication, she was the only female, non-British New Adventures writer.
* Orman's back-cover author profile makes fun of the fact that, as of this book's publication, she was the only non-male, non-British New Adventures writer.
* This was one of several NA releases to be illustrated, featuring work by Jason Towers.
* This was one of several NA releases to be illustrated, featuring work by Jason Towers.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The Exxilons first appeared in [[TV]]: ''[[Death to the Daleks]]''.
* The [[Exxilons]] first appeared in [[TV]]: ''[[Death to the Daleks]]''.
* [[FLORANCE]] first appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Transit]]''.
* [[FLORANCE]] first appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Transit]]''.
* The Doctor spent his thousandth birthday with two broken ribs onboard a ship. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Set Piece]]'')
* The Doctor spent his thousandth birthday with two broken ribs onboard a ship. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Set Piece]]'')

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Sleepy is the forty-eighth novel in the Virgin New Adventures series. It featured the Seventh Doctor, Bernice Summerfield, Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester. It is author Kate Orman's third novel.

Publisher's summary

"Stay the hell out of my mind," hissed Forrester. "Just stay away from me." She turned and stalked out of the room. Chris put his head in his hands.

The Earth colony on Yemaya 4 is a very ordinary place. The colonists spend their time farming, building homes, raising families.

But when the Doctor and his companions arrive they find a virus sweeping through the population, unleashing the colonists' latent psychic powers. The Doctor and Chris fall prey to the infection, and discover telepathy is not the only symptom. Chris is unable to resist the call of an ancient place of sacrifice, while Roz and Benny travel back in time to the origin of the virus, and uncover a desperate bid for immortality.

And all the while the Doctor is playing a dangerous game with troopers of the Dione-Kisumu Company, who have come either to reclaim the stolen biotechnology — or to sterilise the planet.

Plot

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Characters

References

Architecture

Biology

  • The Doctor injects himself with infected blood in order to see what the colonists see.

Books

Companies

Computers

  • GRUMPY is an AI developed as a model of the human brain.

The Doctor

Individuals

  • Dot Smith-Smith is deaf.
  • Dot Smith-Smith is driven into near catatonia by what she sees after reading the Doctor's mind.
  • Roz doesn't like telepaths.
  • The Doctor wins a bet with Death.

Languages

Literature

  • There is some Ikkaban poetry read throughout the novel (something about a turtle and death).

Locations

Psychic powers

Species

  • In a child's toybox Benny sees a toy Dalek. Benny muses that there could be a fluffy Hoothi in amongst the toys also.
  • Bernice jokes, "How many Sontarans does it take to change a light bulb? None, the bulb died a glorious death!"

TARDIS

Notes

  • This is another of Kate Orman's novels to feature pyramids.
  • Orman's back-cover author profile makes fun of the fact that, as of this book's publication, she was the only non-male, non-British New Adventures writer.
  • This was one of several NA releases to be illustrated, featuring work by Jason Towers.

Continuity

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