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The Infernal Nexus
Series:	Big Finish - Bernice Summerfield Series
Release Number:	4
Main Character:	Bernice Summerfield
Featuring:	Jason Kane
Enemy:	Volan Sleed
Setting:	Station Control
Author:	Dave Stone
Publisher:	Big Finish
Publication:	August, 2001
Format:	Paperback Book, 188 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 1-903654-16-5
Previous Story:	The Squire's Crystal
Following Story:	The Glass Prison

Publisher's Summary

Acting on an abstruse tip-off from the renowned paraphysiologist Dr Rupert Gilhooly (a man who, like, knows a lot of stuff) one Bernice Summerfield has found herself on a probe-ship heading deep into the Problematic Heart of the galaxy -- not knowing what, or quite who, she might find.

What she finds is Station Control. A place that exists, simultaneously, in four hundred and seventeen dimensions, a brawling, souk-like Nexus between every world that can, or has or ever will be. And one of those dimensions is Hell.

Bernice knows nothing of the rivalries and power-plays going on here. So she blunders right into them and makes a complete hash of everything, natch. And one of the particular whoms she finds, quite frankly, what with one thing and another, she could quite well do without. In her current state.

Characters

• Bernice Summerfield

• Finds out she's pregnant, she thinks about shagging Jason and pretending it's his.

• Jason Kane

• Shags Mae An T'zhu.

• Volan Sleed

• Aragazar Flatchcock

• Mora Di Vasht

• Suzi II

• A cybernetically altered being.

• Mae An T'zhu

(Rupert Alouicious Barnstable Gilhooly

References

• Theory of Transdimensional Contrivance is a theory postulated by Dr Gilhooly which states if you become cut off from your home dimension you don't age because you're away from your native timeline.
• The Infernal Regions is probably where the idea of 'Hell' came from, it's an actual place which is a sort of universe made of rock with bubbles of places which aren't rock which would in theory be the equivalent of planets.
• Souls, the currency in The Infernal Regions and one of the currancies in use at Station Control.
• The Kiss of the Dragon Lady, a proposed story by Jason Kane of Dead Dog in the PreProductions.
• Benny encounters an ARVID in The Maze.
• Benny uses a rape alarm to stun some Whistling Ninjas.
• Station Control acts as a sort of 'spaceport' (not that it's in space), it's more of nexus point for 417 different universes.

Notes

• This is the first Big Finish Bernice Summerfield novel which has cover art by Adrian Salmon (replacing Carolyn Edwards), Salmon does cover art for the Bernice Summerfield Novels/Short Story Anthologies and Audio Dramas.
• On page 177 is a story breakdown by Jason Kane for The Kiss of the Dragon Lady, a Xeno-porn adaption of the events through the novel.

Continuity

• Jason Kane was engulfed into the multiverse in BNA: Twilight of the Gods.
• Jason Kane started working for Aragazar Flatchcock in BFBS: The Dead Men Diaries - The Door to Bedlam.
• Benny got pregnant when her body was taken over by Avril in BFBS: The Squire's Crystal.
• Benny previously encountered an ARVID in BNA: Ship of Fools (also by Dave Stone).
• The idea of "Theory of Transdimensional Contrivance" is mentioned in BFBS: Walking to Babylon

Timeline

• The Infernal Nexus occurs after: BFBS: The Extinction Event
• The Infernal Nexus occurs before: BFBS: The Skymines of Karthos

External Links

• Big Finish's The Infernal Nexus page

Doctor Who Reference Guide - Detailed Synopsis - The Infernal Nexus