Professor Bernice Summerfield Anthologies Books
Professor Bernice Summerfield, interstellar archaeologist, adventurer, and romantic, has had either one very big life or a number of only slightly smaller ones. This anthology contains stories from many times and places across her long career, ranging from the starkly dramatic, through the thrilling, to the hilarious.
The Braxiatel Collection has been occupied by the Fifth Axis, led by a figure from Bernice's past. As Bernice's friends rise up to end the occupation, Bernice embarks on a desperate rescue mission, to somewhere she last went long ago. Braxiatel confronts his destiny, Jason risks all for his love, and lives are shattered and lost, as the battle of the Braxiatel Collection reaches its epic conclusion. Our heroes will live free or die... Written by Paul Cornell. Directed by Gary Russell. Cast: Lisa Bowerman (Bernice Summerfield); Miles Richardson (Irving Braxiatel); Stephen Fewell (Jason Kane); Harry Myers (Adrian Wall); Steven Wickham (Joseph); Louise Falkner (Bev Tarrant); Beverly Cressman (Mrs Jones); Nicholas Briggs (Mister Crofton/Dalek Voices); Ian Collier (Isaac Summerfield); Michael Shallard (Marshal Anson); Andrew Westfield (Bernard Moskof).
Who but Professor Bernice Summerfield, interstellar archaeologist, raconteur, boozer and wit, would get other people to write her autobiography albeit under threat of death from two bounty hunters sent by a publisher far too concerned about little things like deadlines? These stories are an ideal introduction to the life of Bernice Summerfieldfalling off cliffs, getting sacrificed to orange pygmies, saving the universe, and trying to buy a new outfit.
Benny is on holiday. Dealing with sand, sea, and sunshine. Oh, and intrusive reality TV camera crews. Adrian and Bev are on a secret mission, trying to be subtle and undercover. Yeah, that'll work. Irving Braxiatel is on Earth, helping an old friend solve a political problem with his usual tact and diplomacy. And linking all of these little sojourns is one Jason Peter Kane. He's on trial for his life, accused of stealing the legendary Purpura Pawnand somehow everyone else has to try and find a way to help him. But is someone out to stop them doing so, no matter what the cost?
This book is a short story anthology set in Big Finish Productions' Professor Bernice Summerfield series. Bernice Summerfield appears in many original New Adventures of Doctor Who novels, as well as short stories and other fiction. There's a fresh grave on planetoid KS-159, but only Bernice Summerfield seems to have noticed. Her friends on the Braxiatel Collection are too busy with their own affairs to see how distraught she is, how keenly she feels this loss. There's no time to grieve. Life must carry on, different and strange as it may be. Benny has a son and a bloke to look after, and a feud with Bev Tarrant to keep up. And she's also got dumped with a new assignment, babysitting some daft experiment. Doggles claims his "history machine" will change everything. And the worst thing is that he's right. The Stories Inappropriate Laughter by Simon Guerrier Siege Mentality by James Swallow Dead Mice by Joseph Lidster Acts of Senseless Devotion by Pete Kempshall Walking Backwards for Christmas by Ben Aaronovitch Match of the Deity by Eddie Robson Night of the Living Martian by John Isles The God Gene by Ben Woodhams Writing in Green by Dave Hoskin Showing Initiative by David Cromarty A Murderous Desire by Ian Farrington Back and There Again by Dave Stone One of my Turns by Sin Deniz The Ice Garden by by Jonathan Clements Family Man by Ian Mond After Life by Simon Guerrier
This book is a novella anthology in Big Finish Productions' Professor Bernice Summerfield series. Bernice Summerfield appears in many original New Adventures of Doctor Who novels, as well as short stories and other fiction. The Collection has lost one of its own. Someone who made a mistake once, and has never been forgiven for it. Someone whose hard work and need to make amends has been taken for granted. Someone who doesn’t fit in. Clarissa Jones has been head of administration at the Braxiatel Collection for many years. Enough time to really know her way around the place – its security, its weaknesses, its secrets. Knowledge, in fact, of great value to any of the neighbouring powers. So it’s bad news for everyone when she disappears. The Collection has lost one of its own. Unless Clarissa has taken others with her. The Novellas The Serpent's Tooth by Rebecca Levene Hiding Places by Stewart Sheargold Jason and the Pirates by Dave Stone
Benny Summerfield adventures from her years at The Braxiatel Collection.
This book is a novella anthology set in Big Finish Productions' Professor Bernice Summerfield series. Bernice Summerfield appears in many original New Adventures of Doctor Who novels, as well as short stories and other fiction. Late 2562. Bernice Summerfield is 22 and enroute to the ruin of Earth. She's young, she's single, she's just got an MA in archaeology. There's a life of adventure in front of her. And then she meets the half-human, half-lemur Ivo, whose life she'll completely knock sideways. Late 2607. Professor Bernice Summerfield is... well she looks nearly 40, but it's difficult to tell what with all the time travel. She's on her way to a funeral, and to meet up with people she's not seen since her 20s. Ex-husband / current-beau Jason is keen to go with her. Benny never talks about that period of her life - what she did to keep out of the war, where she travelled, how she survived, or who it was broke her heart. She's run through all time and space to avoid this reunion. But the best-selling author of Down Among The Dead Men must finally uncover her own past. The Novellas The Ship of Painted Shadows by Marc Platt Cheating the Reaper by Jonathan Clements The Soul's Prism by Pete Kempshall
This book is a novella anthology set in Big Finish Productions' Professor Bernice Summerfield series. Bernice Summerfield appears in many original New Adventures of Doctor Who novels, as well as short stories and other fiction. The war is meant to be over. The Draconian Empire has won the day, and the Mim have lost pretty much everything. That includes the borogoves of Proxima Longissima, the Mim's beloved children. The Draconians claim the borogoves are foundlings, abused and neglected by their parents. In the Empire they will be protected and provided for. Fearing that his species faces extinction, one of last surviving Mim begs Bernice Summerfield to come and see for herself. Benny just wants to do right by her own son, Peter, and the brother or sister who may follow him. But soon the borogoves are, rather unexpectedly, her godchildren, and Benny becomes their best hope for a future peace. As if dead oceans and burning deserts weren't hostile enough, Benny must enter the labyrinthine corridors of diplomacy - where right and wrong are questions of perspective, and even her own loved ones are not wholly innocent... The Stories All Mimsy Were the Borogroves by Kate Orman The Loyal Left Hand by Jonathan Blum Nursery Politics by Philip Purser-Hallard
A collection of three new novellas featuring space archaeologist, Bernice Summerfield. In the course of a career spent digging up ancient things, Professor Bernice Summerfield has had more than one brush with the oldest and most widely - dispersed race of undead in the universe - vampires. Is she cursed Or does everybody have to put up with this
When the entire galaxy finds itself under attack from the Deindum - a highly advanced but aggressive and paranoid race from the future - Bernice Summerfield and her various friends and colleagues are scattered across space, doing what they can for the war effort. Bernice makes her way home before heading back into history, searching for knowledge about their adversary and (hopefully) a weapon which might help the cause. Braxiatel, leading a coalition of civilised worlds against the attack, has cause to question his methods. An exhausted Bev runs the Braxiatel Collection as a refugee centre, fearful of an imminent attack. Adrian and Doggles must overcome their shared history and work together, whilst Hass embarks on a dangerous journey through the galaxy's war zones to the heart of the Deindum's new empire. But will it be enough? What can they do against one of the most daunting enemies that they have ever faced?
The Evacuation of Bernice Summerfield Considered as a Short Film by Terry Gilliam by Ben Aaronovitch A lonely orphan on a vast transport ship meets some peculiar fellow travellers. And Then Again by Robert Shearman Who is Bernard Summerfield? What’s happened to his life? And why has he lost his spot in the company car park? Misplaced Spring by Paul Cornell The Braxiatel Collection is recovering from an invasion in a variety of surprising ways. Solar Max and the Seven-Handed Snake-Mother by Kate Orman Bernice is on an expedition to a remote site. She’s about to discover something unpleasant about her fellow explorers. Walking Backwards for Christmas by Ben Aaronovitch How did we get here? Bernice looks back at her life using a history machine. The Least Important Man by Steven Moffat Gavin’s had a fairly miserable life, all of it watched over by the ghostly figure of a woman silently commenting. Bernice Summerfield and the Library of Books by Andrew Cartmel Inside an ancient library is an ancient secret. The secret is, of course, deadly, but it’s deadly in an entirely unique way. A Mutual Friend by Terrance Dicks Bernice Summerfield learns why you should always talk to the person you’re sharing a table with at a cafe.