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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 Because her medical knowledge is obsolete, Lunzie returns to school and becomes the medical officer on an exploratory vessel for the Federation of Sentient Planets.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
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When the space liner on which she is traveling is attacked by the infamous planet pirates, Lunzie Mespil escapes to a lifeboat where she plans to sleep in cryogenic stasis until she is rescued, but she is unaware of how long she will wait. Reissue.

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 380 pages
  • Publisher: Baen; 1St Edition edition (June 1, 1990)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0671698842
  • ISBN-13: 978-0671698843
  • Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #303,932 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I enjoyed it., April 28, 2000
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Other reviewers may not have liked this book, but Mom & I both enjoyed it. Great concept, and it leaves things open for GENERATION WARRIORS to continue the story. Lunzie's frustration over being in cold sleep so often adds to the story tension, leading the reader to wonder not only if she will succeed or fail in what she does, but if she'll find herself in cold sleep again, and have to re-certify herself as a doctor -- again. Deals with issues that most authors may have forgotten about, such as having to get updated in technological and medical advances that occurred while she was asleep, and the whole issue of back pay.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars "Death of Sleep"?! "Sleep of Death" is more like it!, April 25, 1999
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The series starts out great with "Sassinak" but comes to a dead stop with "The Death Of Sleep". This is the most boring book I have ever read! It's one huge sidetrack. If you read the "Planet Pirate" series, *ignore* this book. You can read the first and last books and not miss a thing...
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10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Where's the sequel?, October 6, 2000
This book suffers from the ills of collaborative efforts. Although I don't know any of the details of the arrangement between McCaffrey and Nye, I'd guess that Nye wrote the book based on McCaffrey's concept.

Half way through the book I began to wonder if this was going to be another of those multi-volume stories where seeds planted in the first book bear fruit but are never answered six or ten books later.

If intended to be a one volume book, as another review has pointed out, this one has no ending. Nothing gets resolved; very little is learned; the main character has not changed in any remarkable way; and the story is not over.

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1.0 out of 5 stars It just ended....poof
I liked most of the book until she stopped looking for her daughter with no explanation why. She starts relationships and Anne McCaffrey seems to use disaters and a return to... Read more
Published 1 month ago by E. Kerley

5.0 out of 5 stars Plant Pirate series
I personally enjoyed the entire series but I'm a pretty die hard Anne McCaffery fan. The only book that disappointed me has nothing to do with this partticular series, The Skies... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Gina Sampsell

2.0 out of 5 stars It goes off on a tangent, then stops!
This book is split into different parts, and others have already written summaries, so I won't bother going into details. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Falcon_01

4.0 out of 5 stars Worthy prequel
Lunzie Mespil leaves her 14-year-old daughter, Fiona, with friends on the colony planet where she planned to settle before the authorities there eliminated the job for which she... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Nina M. Osier

4.0 out of 5 stars the death of sleep
enjoyed the fill-in of the story of Lunzie. I had read The stories of her great-great-great granddaughter before reading this story.
Published on October 2, 2007 by Big Kid

1.0 out of 5 stars Lamest . . . Plot . . . Ever (Warning, review contains spoilers!)
The only reason I can find for anybody finishing this book is if they promised somebody they would. Why do I say that? Read more
Published on May 9, 2007 by Geoffrey Kidd

2.0 out of 5 stars Where's the conclusion???
I was enjoying this book thoroughly until it came to its abrupt end. There was no sense of completion, no tying up of loose ends, nothing. Read more
Published on October 6, 2002 by Missy Kay

4.0 out of 5 stars One more time (no drum roll please)
Poor Lunzie, nothing every goes right for her. The concept of stasis and passage of time is a conflict that many story lines have examined. Read more
Published on August 27, 2002

2.0 out of 5 stars One of her worst books!
I love Anne McCaffrey, but in my opinion this is one of the few books that she has written that is not very good. I did not like the book and had a hard time finishing it. Read more
Published on March 12, 2002 by Amy Pettijohn

2.0 out of 5 stars Weak.
_The Death of Sleep_ takes an interesting premise (being forced to go into cryogenic slumber for decades at a time) and does absolutely nothing with it. Read more
Published on May 1, 2000 by R. Todd Ogrin

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