The Death of Sleep by Anne McCaffrey and Jody Lynn Nye

Death of Sleep by Anne McCaffrey and Jody Lynn Nye is the second book in the Planet Pirates series set in the Ireta Universe. The main character in this book is Lunzie Mespila medic who is mentioned in each of the previous three books in this universe. This book deals with the backstory which occurs before the events which are detailed in Dinosaur Planet. The story begins as Lunzie takes a job as a doctor on a asteroid mining platform leaving her daughter behind. However the ship has an accident and she is left in cold sleep for sixty two years. The main theme of the story is the way that in many ways the fact that she leaves society for such large time periods it is like everything which she connects to dies and she must constantly find herself adopting to new worlds and finding her place in them.