Dreamstone Moon (novel)

Dreamstone Moon
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Sam
Main enemy:	Dreamstone
Main setting:	Dreamstone Moon, Mu Camelopides VI, 23rd century
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Books
Writer:	Paul Leonard
Cover by:	Black Sheep
Release details
Release number:	11
Release date:	5 May 1998
Format:	Paperback Book; 23 Chapters, 250 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-563-40585-6
BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures
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You may be looking for the titular moon.

Dreamstone Moon was the eleventh novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Paul Leonard, released 5 May 1998 and featured the Eighth Doctor and Sam Jones.

However while they both appear throughout this novel, they do so separately. Sam and the Doctor do not meet, though they do see each other at a distance.

Publisher's summary

Sam is on her own, but her distance from the Doctor doesn't make for a trouble-free life. Rescued from an out-of-control spaceship, she finds herself on a tiny moon which is the only known source of dreamstone, a mysterious crystalline substance that can preserve your dreams — or give you nightmares.

Pitched into the middle of a conflict between the mining company extracting dreamstone and ecological protesters, Sam thinks it's easy to decide who the good guys are — until people start dying, and the killers seem to be the same species as some of her new friends.

Meanwhile, the Doctor has tracked Sam down, but before he can reach her he's co-opted by the Dreamstone Mining Company and their sinister military advisers. Suddenly, it's war — and the Doctor is forced to fight against what he believes in. He alone suspects that dreamstone isn't what it appears to be. But nobody's listening — and nobody could dream who the real enemy is...

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Eighth Doctor
• Sam Jones
• Daniel O'Ryan
• Aloisse
• Captain Isobella Cleomides
• Anton la Serre
• Aril Tiydon
• Innell
• General Shaiko
• Madge

References

Culture

• Cetacean is the name of a (music) band.

The Doctor

• The Doctor uses his UNIT pass to bluff his way into the Dreamstone Moon Mining Corporation mining operation.
• Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart's name comes up in a search in connection to the Doctor and UNIT.

Foods and beverages

• Sam eats Vithiliskan Savoury Fruit on Dreamstone Moon.

Individuals

• Sam Jones gets exposed to near vacuum. Her lung gets collapsed twice.
• Sam mentions having seen a Dalek war zone.

Individuals by profession

• Captain Isabella Cleomides's husband's first wife was a Dalek Killer.

Organisations

• The Doctor lodges missing person reports for Sam with human, Draconian, Tractite, Chelonian, Besiddan, Arachnon and Krakenite missing person authorities.

Planets

• The planets Ha'olam and Occam's World are mentioned.
• Occam's World is a human colony close-ish to Mu Camelopides VI.

Species

• The Zmm-Zmm are insectoidal with wings.
• Besiddians are cat-like people.
• Dreamstones are all part of the one organism which is Mu Camelopides VI.
• Chorodorons are white and six limbed.
• Esqueekeemmians are tiny and have metal wings.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• This continues on immediately following PROSE: Longest Day for Sam.
• PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks has just occurred for the Doctor.
• Sam mentions in passing having seen a Dalek war zone. (PROSE: War of the Daleks)
• Sam still remembers and feels guilt over killing a Tractite. (PROSE: Genocide)
• Sam is still feeling guilty over kissing the Doctor. (PROSE: Longest Day)
• Dalek Killers first appeared in COMIC: Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer.
• The Doctor still has the cat that Donna gave to him. (PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks)
• Anton mentions that the Earth is still ravaged from the Dalek invasion. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)

External links

• Dreamstone Moon at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: Dreamstone Moon at The Whoniverse
• The Cloister Library: Dreamstone Moon