The Sleep of Reason

The Sleep of Reason

Doctorwhobook
title=The Sleep of Reason
series=Eighth Doctor Adventures
number=70
featuring=Eighth Doctor Fitz, Trix


writer=Martin Day
publisher=BBC Books
isbn= ISBN 0-563-48620-1
set_between=
pages=288
date=August 2004
preceding=The Tomorrow Windows
following=The Deadstone Memorial|

"The Sleep of Reason" is a BBC Books original novel written by Martin Day and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Trix.

Plot

The Doctor poses as a psychiatrist to investigate strange goings on at a mental health hosptial.

Continuity

*The Eighth Doctor ages about 100 years during this novel, because he travels back in time using a Sholem-Luz portal to shape events at the turn of the century, and then has to sleep in a casket in the cathedral to return to the present.

*The Doctor is always referred to as 'Smith' in this story, except by Fitz and Trix. This is a reference to the classic series, when The Doctor would sometimes call himself John Smith (a very common British name).

Notes

*Day said on the Jade Pagoda discussion group [http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Jade_Pagoda] that the first chapter of "The Sleep of Reason" had originally been written for a non-"Doctor Who" novel proposal that was never completed. Day then adapted it for the "Doctor Who" format.

Outside References

*The title is a take from the 1799 Francisco Goya aquatint etching " set.

External links

*Doctor Who RG | id=whobbc70 | title=The Sleep of Reason
* [http://members.lycos.co.uk/cloisterlibrary/sleepreason.htm The Cloister Library - "The Sleep of Reason"]

Reviews

*OG review | id=bbc8-70 | title=The Sleep of Reason
*DWRG | id=sleepreason | title=The Sleep of Reason


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