SLEEPY (novel)

SLEEPY
Doctor:	[[doctor::Seventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Benny, Roz, Chris
Main enemy:	Dione-Kisumu company
Main setting:	Dione, 2227, Yemaya 4, 2257
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Virgin Books]]
Writer:	Kate Orman
Release details
Release number:	48
Release date:	March, 1996
Format:	Paperback Book, ? Pages
ISBN:	0426204654

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 sterilize the planet.

Characters

The Doctor

• Bleeds from the eyes when Dot Smith-Smith tries to read his mind.

Bernice Summerfield

• Authored An Eye for Wisdom: Repetitive Poems of the Early Ikkaban Period.

Chris Cwej

• Has a psi ability.

Roz Forrester

• Doesn't like telepaths.

GRUMPY

• An AI developed as a model of the human brian.

SLEEPY

Wolsey the cat

Dot Smith-Smith

Death

• The Doctor wins a bet with Death.

References

• The HADS are once again functioning.

• The Doctor's Beach House (Sydney, Australia); he bought it while his house in Kent was being painted.

• The Yemaya Temple has some Exxilon and Osiran archtecture.

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

• Dione-Kisumu Company conducted medical experiments on the colonists of Yemeya 4.

Notes

• This is another of Kate Orman's novels to feature pyramids.

Continuity

• The Exxilons first appeared in Death to the Daleks
• FLORENCE first appeared in Transit
• The Doctor spent his 1000th birthday on board a ship with two broken ribs Set Piece
• The Doctor searched for The Brotherhood inChristmas on a Rational Planet and battles them in The Death of Art and So Vile A Sin.
• Some AIs from this story pop up in Seeing I.
• The Doctor can read a person's dreams by touch, which he does again in The Girl in the Fireplace.

External Links

• The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of Sleepy