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Starbright Connor, the spunky heroine of this sci-fi fantasy, lives in a world plagued by spindle sickness, where people fall asleep and die. Starbright reads a diary revealing that her birth was prophesied in a message from another galaxy, and her dreams become the battleground of the fight against what's causing spindle sickness: the energy predations of an undetectable alien life form. The intriguing situations build to a suspenseful conclusion.