The Sleep of Reason

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Doctor Who book

The Sleep of Reason
Series	Eighth Doctor Adventures
Release number	70
Featuring	Eighth Doctor Fitz, Trix
Writer	Martin Day
Publisher	BBC Books
ISBN	ISBN 0-563-48620-1
Number of pages	288
Release date	August 2004
Preceded by	The Tomorrow Windows
Followed by	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.

Like all Doctor Who spin-off media, the way the plot fits in to the ongoing story of television series is open to interpretation. See Whoniverse#Inclusion and canonicity

1 Plot
2 Continuity
3 Notes
4 Outside References
5 External links
- 5.1 Reviews

[edit] Plot

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

[edit] 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).

[edit] 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 proposal that was never completed. Day then adapted it for the Doctor Who format.