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Return to the Fractured Planet
Series:	Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures
Release Number:	21
Main Character:	'The Strantum Seven Agent' Bernice Summerfield
Featuring:	Irving Braxiatel
Enemy:	Sleed
Setting:	Proximia Chain, 2596
Author:	Dave Stone
Publisher:	Virgin Books
Publication:	August, 1999
Format:	Paperback Book, 238 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-20534-0
Previous Story:	Tears of the Oracle
Following Story:	The Joy Device

Publisher's Summary

'I gazed up at the smoking hole the bomb had made - and then I realised something was wrong. Benny lay beside me, slack and tangled like a discarded rag doll, unnaturally pale, and unbreathing. She was dead.'

Nothing is ever simple, and nothing ever ends. Feed some drugs to laboratory rats and, two hundred generations down the line, the monsters start being born.

The fragile stability of the Dellahan quarantine has been compromised, and something has escaped. Now, a man in the incipient stages of identity-collapse and a dying Bernice Summerfield have to search the byzantine cities of the Proximian Chain for an entity that killed his lover and her friend - an entity that will turn the Chain into its own version of hell.

Characters

• Bernice Summerfield
  • Benny is still suffering from the Mary-Sue mind wipe she had performed.
  • Benny and the Agent get blown out of a hotel room by a bomb, leaving Benny in a coma.
  • Benny is cured of the Mary-Sue by her interaction with the Sleed brain, however on its way out the Mary-Sue wiped several of her memories.

• Irving Braxiatel

• The Strantum Seven Agent

• Mira

• Chris Cwej
  • Goes under the alias Roland Forrester (obviously referencing his dead friend Roz Forrester).

References

• An ARVID appears in one of the Background chapters.
• Elanore Vita Hydrant Summerfield-Kane might be a descendant of Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane.

Notes

• Like The Mary-Sue Extrusion this is told primarily in first person, however throughout this novel are chapters entitled Background, providing background to the Strantum Seven Agent, there are also extracts from Bernice Summerfield's diary.

Continuity

• An ARVID computer appeared in BNA: Ship of Fools.
• This is a sequel to BNA: The Mary-Sue Extrusion.

External Links

• Doctor Who Reference Guide - Detailed Synopsis - Return to the Fractured Planet
• The Whoniverse - The Discontinuity Guide to: Return to the Fractured Planet