The excerpts come from Doctor Who: The Stealers of Dreams by Steve Lyons, detailing a dystopian future where fiction and imagination are banned on Colony World 4378976.Delta-Four. The narrative follows Kimmi Waller, a police inspector who rigorously enforces the law against "fantasy crazy" individuals and fears her own repressed imagination, and the arrival of The Doctor, Rose Tyler, and Captain Jack Harkness, who seek to understand and reverse the planet's cultural stagnation. Central to the conflict is the underground pirate broadcast, Static, run by the mysterious Hal Gryden, which covertly reintroduces fictional stories, dreams, and subversive ideas, leading to the institutionalization of those affected in the Big White House for cognitive disconnection.

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