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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...
Characters
- The Doctor
- Sam Jones
- Gets exposed to near vaccum.
- Her lung gets collapsed twice.
- Thinks that the Doctor is dead twice.
- Daniel O'Ryan
- Aloisse
- Big, tentacled person.
- Captain Isabella Cleomides
- Her husband's first wife was a Dalek Killer.
- Anton la Serre
- Channels the dreamstone.
- Tiydon
- Daniel's superior
- Innell
- wilcat miner on Mu Calipedes
- General Shaiko
- Earth General
- Madge
References
- Sam mentions having seen a Dalek war zone.
- The planets Ha'olam and Occam's World are mentioned.
- The Doctor lodges missing person reports for Sam with: human, Draconian, Tractite, Chelonian, Besiddan, Arachnon and Krakenite missing person authorities.
- Cetacean are the name of a (music) band.
- 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.
- The Zmm-Zmm are insectoidal with wings.
- Besiddians are cat-like people.
- Occam's World is a human colony close-ish to Mu Camelopides VI.
- Dreamstones are all part of the one organism which is Mu Camelopides VI.
- Sam eats Vithiliskan Savoury Fruit on Dreamstone Moon.
- Chorodorons are white and six limbed.
- Esqueekeemmians are tiny and have metal wings.
Notes
- While the Doctor and Sam appear throughout this novel, they do so separately. Sam and the Doctor do not meet, though they see each other at a distance.
Continuity
- This continues on immediately following Longest Day for Sam.
- Legacy of the Daleks has just occured for the Doctor.
- Sam mentions in passing having seen a Dalek war zone. (EDA: War of the Daleks)
- Sam still remembers and feels guilt over killing a Tractite. (EDA: Genocide)
- Sam is still feeling guilty over kissing the Doctor. (EDA: Longest Day)
- Dalek Killers first appeared in DWM: Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer.
- The Doctor still has the cat that Donna gave to him. (EDA: Legacy of the Daleks)
- Anton mentions that the Earth is still ravaged from the Dalek invasion. (DW: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)
Timeline
- This story takes place after EDA: Legacy of the Daleks
- This story takes place before EDA: Seeing I