The Death of Sleep is a science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 novel by Anne McCaffrey

Anne McCaffrey

Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Over the course of her 46 year career she won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award...

 and Jody Lynn Nye

Jody Lynn Nye

Jody Lynn Nye is an American science fiction writer. She has frequently collaborated as a co-author or the author of a sequel....

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It is the second book in the Planet Pirates trilogy

Planet Pirates Series

Planet Pirates Series is a Science Fiction paperback book series created and written by author Anne McCaffrey beginning in 1978. An omnibus edition The Planet Pirates was published by, McCaffrey, Moon, & Nye in 1993.-Series:...

 and continues the Ireta series initiated by McCaffrey in 1978

Dinosaur Planet (novel)

Dinosaur Planet is a science fiction novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey.It was a paperback original published in 1978, by Orbit Books and then by Del Rey Books , the fantasy & science fiction imprints of Futura Publications and Ballantine Books respectively.A sequel followed in...

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Plot overview

Like its predecessor, The Death of Sleep is written in four parts. Each book centers on a new stage in the life of Sassinak's much removed relative, Dr. Lunzie Mespil. Lunzie leaves her daughter for what she thinks will be a relatively brief and lucrative job, but through various circumstances she suffers extended periods of cold sleep on several occasions, and finds herself thrown into a time different from her own, and is never is able to meet her daughter again. Throughout her various experiences, Lunzie teams up with a changing cast of characters in order to bring down the planet pirates that plague the outer reaches of space.