The Dream Millennium

White's working title for The Dream Millennium was The Star Shepherd, which sounds like something from a flip-side of an old Ace Double volume. But 'shepherd' would be a valid job description for Dr. John Devlin, who flits in-and-out of suspended animation to look after incessantly deep-frozen colonists fleeing the polluted Earth. "And in that coldsleep, what dreams may come . . ." as the Bardmaster of Avon surely meant to put it. Devlin runs the Jungian gauntlet from a Silurian trilobite's impersonal extinction to the killing of a British soldier on some Belfast back-street: "Very soon he was dead. But for him not nearly soon enough . . ." (p.156). The starship computer helps Devlin get through his 1,000-year trip -- trips, rather.