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The Sleep of Reason

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Author
  
Martin Day

Publisher
  
BBC Books

Release number
  
70

Publication date
  
August 2004

Series
  
Doctor Who book: Eighth Doctor Adventures

Subject
  
Featuring: Eighth Doctor Fitz, Trix

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.

Contents

Plot

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

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).

    • References

    The Sleep of Reason Wikipedia
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