title: The Death of Sleep
author:  Anne McCaffrey 
description: YA-- Like Dan Davis in Heinlein's Door into Summer (Ballantine, 1986), Lunzie Mespil is a victim of cryogenic sleep and future shock. On three separate occasions following a deep-space disaster, she is placed in suspended animation totaling almost 90 years while awaiting rescue. Like Ripley in the film Aliens , she has lost not just her friends and loved ones, but everything familiar to her. Her story is a study of struggle against adversity as she tries to put her life back together. Because her medical knowledge is obsolete, Lunzie returns to school and becomes the medical officer on an exploratory vessel for the Federation of Sentient Planets. While routinely surveying the prehistoric life of the planet Ireta, she is caught in the middle of a violent racial mutiny. While not as strong a book as The Ship Who Sang (Ballantine, 1976) or most of the "Pern" novels, McCaffrey has created a feisty, likable character in Lunzie Mespil. This well-written yarn can stand alone, but it works best if read with Dinosaur Planet (1978), Dinosaur Planet Survivors (1984, both Ballantine), and Sassinak (Baen, 1990). --John Lawson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA<br />Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  The Death of Sleep
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  by Anne McCaffrey and Jody Lynn Nye
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For another survivor, Lida Sloan Moon
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THE DEATH OF SLEEP
  
  
  
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this
  book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely
  coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 1990 by Bill Fawcett and Associates
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions
  thereof in any form.
  
  
  
  
  
  A Baen Books Original
  
  
  
  
  
  Baen Publishing Enterprises
  
  
  260 Fifth Avenue
  
  
  New York, N.Y. 10001
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN: 0-671-69884-2
  
  
  
  
  
  Cover art by Stephen Hickman
  
  
  
  
  
  First printing, July 1990
  
  
  
  
  
  Distributed by
  
  
  SIMON & SCHUSTER
  
  
  1230 Avenue of the Americas
  
  
  New York, N.Y. 10020
  
  
  
  
  
  Printed in the United States of America
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter Two
  
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