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Beyond the Sun
Series:	Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures
Release Number:	3
Main Character:	Bernice Summerfield
Featuring:	Wolsey
Enemy:	The Sunless
Setting:	Apollox 4, 2593 Ursu, 2593
Author:	Matthew Jones
Publisher:	Virgin Books
Publication:	July, 1997
Format:	Paperback Book, 295 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-20511-1
Previous Story:	Dragons' Wrath
Following Story:	Ship of Fools

Publisher's Summary

'You're on your own, Bernice.'

Bernice Summerfield has drawn the short straw. Not for her the pleasures of intergalactic conferences and highbrow lecture tours. Oh no. She's forced to take two overlooked freshers on their very first dig. And just when it seems things can't get any worse, her no-good ex-husband Jason turns up, claiming that he is in deadly danger. Benny finally begins to believe his wild claims, but unfortunately only after he has been kidnapped from his hotel room.

Feeling guilty, she sets out to rescue him. Well, let's face it, no one else is going to. Her only clue is a dusty artefact that Jason claimed was part of an ancient and powerful weapon. But Professor Summerfield PhD knows that's just silly nonsense. She's been an archaeologist long enough to know that lost alien civilisations do not leave their most powerful weapons around for any nutter to find. Do they?

Once again Benny is all that stands between Jason and his own mistakes, as she tries to prevent the wrong people acquiring this terrible and somewhat unlikely weapon - a weapon rumored to have powers beyond the sun.

Characters

• Bernice Summerfield

• Jason Kane

• Emile Mars-Smith

• Tameka

• Scott

• Iranda

References

• The Blooms appear to function in a similar manner to Gallifreyan Looms.

• Benny adapts a saying of the Doctor's: "Bernice Summerfield is a human being. And as such she is all too capable of being cruel and cowardly. And yet, while she is often caught up in violent events, she endeavors to remain a woman of peace."

• Jason met Iranda on Denaria 7.

Notes

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Continuity

• The mantra that Benny uses is adapted from the Doctor's from NA: Timewyrm: Revelation.
• Tameka and Emile Mars-Smith reappear in BNA: Deadfall.
• Benny and Jason were divorced in NA: Eternity Weeps.

External Links

• Doctor Who Reference Guide - Detailed Synopsis - Beyond the Sun
• The Whoniverse - The Discontinuity Guide to: Beyond the Sun