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|image= NA048 sleepy.jpg
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|series = [[Virgin New Adventures]]
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|enemy= [[Dione-Kisumu Company]]
|enemy= [[Dione-Kisumu Company]]
|setting= {{il|[[Dione]], [[2227]]|[[Yemaya 4]], [[2257]]}}
|setting= {{il|[[Dione]], [[2227]]|[[Yemaya 4]], [[2257]]}}
|writer= [[Kate Orman]]
|writer= Kate Orman
|cover= [[Mark Wilkinson]]
|cover= [[Mark Wilkinson]]
|publisher= Virgin Books
|publisher= Virgin Books
|release date= [[21 March (releases)|21 March]], [[1996 (releases)|1996]]
|release date= 21 March 1996
|format= Paperback Book; 29 Chapters, 255 Pages
|format= Paperback Book; 29 Chapters, 255 Pages
|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20465-4
|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20465-4
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* [[Cephas Mabgwe]]
* [[Cephas Mabgwe]]
* [[Dimitri Molokomme]]
* [[Dimitri Molokomme]]
* [[Death (Timewyrm: Revelation)|Death]]
* [[Death (mythology)|Death]]
* [[Madhanagopal]]
* [[Madhanagopal]]
* [[FLORANCE]]
* [[FLORANCE]]
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=== The Doctor ===
=== The Doctor ===
* The Doctor's [[The Doctor's aliases|Gallifreyan name]] has thirty eight syllables.
* The Doctor's [[Aliases of the Doctor|Gallifreyan name]] has thirty eight syllables.


=== Individuals ===
=== Individuals ===
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* Dot Smith-Smith is driven into near [[catatonia]] by what she sees after reading the Doctor's mind.
* Dot Smith-Smith is driven into near [[catatonia]] by what she sees after reading the Doctor's mind.
* Roz doesn't like [[telepath]]s.
* Roz doesn't like [[telepath]]s.
* The Doctor wins a bet with [[Death (Timewyrm: Revelation)|Death]].
* The Doctor wins a bet with [[Death (mythology)|Death]].


=== Languages ===
=== Languages ===
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=== TARDIS ===
=== TARDIS ===
* The [[HADS]] is once again functioning in the [[The Doctor's TARDIS (Blood Heat)|alternate universe TARDIS]].
* The [[HADS]] is once again functioning in the [[The Doctor's TARDIS (Silurian Earth)|alternate universe TARDIS]].


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

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

"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.

Chapter titles[[edit] | [edit source]]

Part One - The Voice of the Turtle[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. Home by the Sea
  2. ESP is Catching
  3. Looking for Things
  4. The Queen's Temple
  5. Hear no Evil
  6. Death in a Nest of Spices

Very Short Dream Sequence

  1. Fire with Fire
  2. The Poetry of Madmen

Part Two - Hit and Missions[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. White
  2. J'adoube

Prelude...

  1. Turtle Fugue

Dinner with White

  1. Thin End of the Cwej
  2. Can't see the Forrester for the Trees

Dinner with White

  1. GRUMPY

Dinner with White

  1. A Door Made of Doors

Dinner with White

  1. Day Dreams
  2. Techno-Seance
  3. Prince Charming

Dinner with White

Part Three - The Phoenix and the Turtle[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. Yellow
  2. The Last Four Hours
  3. Turtle Power
  4. One Wedding, No Funerals

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Architecture[[edit] | [edit source]]

Biology[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

Books[[edit] | [edit source]]

Companies[[edit] | [edit source]]

Computers[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

The Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • 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[[edit] | [edit source]]

Literature[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

Locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

Psychic powers[[edit] | [edit source]]

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • 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[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • 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 or non-British New Adventures writer.
  • This was one of several NA releases to be illustrated, featuring work by Jason Towers.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Illustrations[[edit] | [edit source]]

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]