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The Glass Prison
Series:	Big Finish - Bernice Summerfield Series
Release Number:	5
Main Character:	Bernice Summerfield
Featuring:
Enemy:	Fifth Axis
Setting:	Braxiatel Collection, October, 2600 Deirbhile, Glass Prison, October, 2600
Author:	Jacqueline Rayner
Publisher:	Big Finish
Publication:	January, 2002
Format:	Paperback Book, 207 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 1-9036454-41-6
Previous Story:	The Infernal Nexus
Following Story:	The Big Hunt

Publisher's Summary

Don’t ever annoy the Fifth Axis. They might throw you into the Glass Prison on Deirbhile -- and then throw away the key.

Once you’re inside, there’s nowhere to hide. They can see your every movement. They control you. You’re going to be watched for the rest of your life, wherever you go, whoever you are. Even if you’re a professor of archaeology. Even if you’re a friend of the famous Irving Braxiatel, and you’ve written several popular coffee-table books.

Even if you’re pregnant. Even if your baby’s due any day now.

But, of course, they know all about your baby. And they’re planning to take it away.

That is, if the loony cultists you’re locked up with don’t get it first.

Characters

Bernice Summerfield

• Gives birth (via C-section in a prison) to her half-Killoran half Human baby.
• Benny's nickname for Jason is "Mr Rabbit" and not because he's got long floppy ears and a twitchy nose.

Claire (aka Clar'atol)

• Is a Pakhar.
• Is mid-wife for Bernice and her baby.
• Gets tortured by the Fifth Axis (it's standard procedure).
• Knits a blanket from her fur for Benny's baby.

Sophia

• Is a Grel.

Grippa

• Fifth Axis plant that Benny and Claire share a cell with.

The Wolf

• Head honcho in the women's prison and leader of a cult.

Kolonel Daglan Straklant

Irving Braxiatel

Joseph

Jason Kane

Adrian Wall

References

• The Fifth Axis hold the planet Deirbhile as a strategic position, and for its Glass Prison made of an impregnable glass (except to a half-human, half Killoran baby's scream).
• Claire, as a Pakhar, is shorter than Benny, coming up to her waist. Pakhars generally wash themselves with their tongues.
• The Fifth Axis appears to have been defeated.
• Benny calls her baby Peter Guy Summerfield. His middle name is in honour of Guy de Carnac, whom Benny once loved (c.f. NA:Sanctuary).
• Sophia (a Grel) uses her dataaxe to kill the Fifth Axis Imperarator.
• Benny's father Isaac Summerfield attends the naming of Benny's baby.
• Former students Michael Doran, Jayne Waspo, Emile Mars-Smith, and Tameka (with her son Scott) also attend.
• Keri, Benny's Pakhar friend is also present (she was also at Benny's wedding).
• As do Starl Standmoor, Arko, Forno and Shell, whom Benny met on Venedel.
• Chris Cwej also appears looking decidedly older than Benny last saw him

Notes

• This is the last paperback Benny novel.
• The next full length Bernice Summerfield novel was some way down the track with The Big Hunt.

Continuity

• Benny was impregnated by Adrian Wall when Avril body-swapped her in BFBS: The Squire's Crystal.
• Jason returned to this universe in BFBS: The Infernal Nexus.
• Benny met and then subsequently made sure Kolonel Daglan Straklant of the Fifth Axis was placed in prison in BFBS: The Doomsday Manuscript.
• Benny gives her son the middle name Guy after Guy de Carnac, whom she met in NA: Sanctuary.
• Michael Doran, Jayne Waspo appeared in BNA: Oh No It Isn't!.
• Tameka first appeared in BNA: Beyond the Sun.
• Emile Mars-Smith also appeared in Beyond the Sun and last appeared in BNA: Twilight of the Gods.
• Jason laments that Peter's naming is like his and Bernice's wedding (NA: Happy Endings).
• Shell, Arko, Forno and Starl Stanmoor appeared in BFBS: The Gods of the Underworld.
• Chris Cwej last appeared in BNA: Twilight of the Gods.
• The Fifth Axis returns in BFBs: Life During Wartime and Death and the Daleks.

Timeline

• The Glass Prison occurs after: BFBS: The Skymines of Karthos
• The Glass Prison occurs before: BFBS: The Greatest Shop in the Galaxy

External Links

• Doctor Who Reference Guide - Detailed Synopsis - The Glass Prison