Rating: 
Summary: Where's the sequel?
Review: 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.
Rating:
Summary: Where's the sequel?
Review: 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.
Rating: 
Summary: Weak.
Review: _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. The main character, Lunzie, is forced to submit to cryo-sleep after a major disaster at a mining facility in deep space. She wakes up 70 or so years later to find that everything she had known has changed, and her beloved daughter (only a child when she left) is possibly dead. She begins a search to find her. Except for the outset of the book, Lunzie is a tiresome character. She learns nothing in her journey and her personality is the same as it was when she first stepped on the mining shuttle. Time and time again throughout the book, she's put in sleep. She's reluctant each time, but does so anyway without much ado. Does Lunzie freak out, like most people would? Nope. She just takes the injection and sleeps. Being forced to sit out of history for years at a time is an interesting idea that never really gets tackled solidly in this book. For an excellent treatment of the same subject (albeit with a grittier atmosphere), I'd recommend _The Forever War_ by Joe Haldeman over McAffrey's effort.
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