The Sleep of Reason (Day novel)

For the work by Goya, see The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.

Template:Doctorwhobook 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 [1] that the first chapter of The Sleep of Reason had originally been written for a non-Doctor Who novel 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 "El sueno de la razon produce monstruos" ("The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters"), part of the artist's Los Caprichos set.

External links

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• The Cloister Library - The Sleep of Reason
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• The Sleep of Reason title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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