An Eighth Doctor and Sam story. Sam has gotten separated from the Doctor and is rescued by a miner who is part of the Dreamstone mining operation. She soon removes herself from the miners and becomes part of a protest movement which claims the company is causing irreparable damage to the ecosystem. Meanwhile, an artist who creates dreams with the stones has discovers that the stones form part of a sentience which the human miners are killing.
This story is obviously part of a serial and although it can stand alone it is annoying to read the parts which are related to the previous story.
re-read 10/18/2023 ( )

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The next Eighth Doctor Adventure in sequence after Longest Day (and the parenthesis of Legacy of the Daleks). A fairly standard romp - exploitation of alien planet (turns out the dreamstones of the title are similar to the rocks in Sherri S Tepper's 1987 novel After Long Silence / The Enigma Score), with the wrinkle that the Doctor and Sam are apart for almost the entire book and remain parted at the end. There is one memorable tentacular alien character, Aloisse. But nothing very outstanding about this one. ( )