SLEEPY (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 sterilize the planet.
Characters
- The Doctor
- Bleeds from the eyes when Dot Smith-Smith tries to read his mind.
- Dot Smith-Smith is driven into near catatonia by what she sees when reading his mind.
- Knows sign language.
- Injects himself with infected blood in order to see what they see.
- Is able to deflect some if not all of Colonel White's psychic probe.
- Chris Cwej
- Has a psi ability.
- Roz Forrester
- Doesn't like telepaths.
- GRUMPY
- An AI developed as a model of the human brian.
- Dot Smith-Smith
- Is deaf, and her parents refused to have her either healed medically or had a healing aid.
- 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.
- 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.
- One of several NA releases to be illustrated, featuring work by Jason Towers.
Continuity
- The Exxilons first appeared in DW: Death to the Daleks.
- FLORENCE first appeared in NA: Transit
- The Doctor spent his 1000th birthday on board a ship with two broken ribs NA: Set Piece
- The Doctor searched for The Brotherhood in NA: Christmas 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 EDA: Seeing I.
- The Doctor can read a person's dreams by touch, which he does again in DW: The Girl in the Fireplace.
