SLEEPY (novel)

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

Plot

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Characters

References

Architecture

The Yemaya Temple has some Exxilon and Osirian architecture.

Biology

The Doctor injects himself with infected blood in order to see what the colonist see.
Chesinen refused her parents wishes to be circumcised.

Books and publications

Bernice authored An Eye for Wisdom: Repetitive Poems of the Early Ikkaban Period.

Companies

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

Computers

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

The Doctor

The Doctor bleeds from the eyes when Dot Smith-Smith tries to read his mind.
The Doctor is able to deflect some if not all of Colonel White's psychic probe.
The Doctor can read people's minds by touch.
The Doctor's Gallifreyan name has thirty eight syllables.

Individuals

Dot Smith-Smith is deaf, her parents refused to have her either healed medically or have a healing aid.
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

The Doctor knows sign language.

Literature

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

Locations

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

Psychic powers

Chris has a psi ability.

Races and species

In a child's toybox Benny sees a toy Dalek, Benny muses that there could be a fluffy Hoothi in amongst the toys also.
"How many Sontarans does it take to change a light bulb? None, the bulb died a glorious death!" - Bernice Summerfield's 'joke'.

TARDISes

The HADS are once again functioning.

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.

Timeline

This story takes place after NA: Warchild
This story takes place before NA: Death and Diplomacy

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