Bernice Summerfield 'New Adventures'
On No It Isn't!
Dragon's Wrath
Beyond The Sun
Ship Of Fools
Down
Deadfall
Ghost Devices
Mean Streets
Tempest
Walking To Babylon
Oblivion
The Medusa Effect
Dry Pilgramage
The Sword of Forever
Another Girl, Another Planet
Beige Planet Mars
The Mary-Sue Extrusion

Bernice-less 'New Adventure'
Dead Romance

More Bernice Summerfield 'New Adventures'
Tears of the Oracle
Return to the Fractured Planet
The Joy Device
Twilight of the Gods

Oh No It Isn't
by Paul Cornell

Bernice Surprise Summerfield is just settling into her new job as Professor of Archaeology at St Oscar's University on the cosmopolitan planet of Dellah. She's using this prestigious centre of learning to put her past, especially her failed marriage, behind her. But when a routine exploration of the planet Perfecton goes awry, she needs all her old ingenuity and cunning as she faces a menace that can only be described as - panto.

Also available as an Audio Adventure from Big Finish Productions.

Dragon's Wrath
by Justin Richards

The Knights of Jeneve, a legendary chivalric order famed for their jewel-encrusted dragon emblem, were destroyed at the battle of Boscaro. But when a gifted forger is murdered on his way to meet her old friend Irving Braxiatel, and she comes into possession of a rather ornate dragon statue, Benny can't help thinking they're involved. So, suddenly embroiled in art fraud, murder and derring-do, she must discover the secret behind the dragon, and thwart the machinations of those seeking to control the sector.

Also available as an Audio Adventure from Big Finish Productions.

Beyond The Sun
by Matthew Jones

Benny has drawn the short straw - she's forced to take two overlooked freshers on their very first dig. Just when she thinks it can't get any worse, her no-good ex-husband Jason turns up and promptly gets himself kidnapped. As no one else is going to rescue him, Benny resigns herself to the task. But her only clue is a dusty artefact that Jason implausibly claimed was part of an ancient an powerful weapon - a weapon rumoured to have powers beyond the sun.

Also available as an Audio Adventure from Big Finish Productions.

Ship Of Fools
by Dave Stone

No hard-up archaeologist could resist the perks of working for the fabulously wealthy Krytell. Benny is given an unlimited expense account, an entire new wardrobe and all the jewels and pearls she could ever need. Also, her new job, unofficial and shady though it is, requires her presence on the famed space cruiser-liner, the Titanian Queen. But, as usual, there is a catch: those on board are being systematically bumped off, and the great detective, Emil Dupont, hasn't got a clue what's going on.

Down
by Lawrence Miles

If the authorities on Tyler's Folly didn't expect to drag an off-world professor out of the ocean in a forbidden 'quake zone, they certainly weren't ready for her story. According to Benny the planet is hollow, its interior inhabited by warring tribes, rubber-clad Nazis and unconvincing prehistoric monsters. Has something stolen Benny's reason? Or is the planet the sole exception to the more mundane laws of physics? And what is the involvement of the utterly amoral alien known only as !X.

Deadfall
by Garry Russell

Jason Kane has stolen the location of the legendary planet of Ardenthe from his ex-wife Bernice, and, as usual, it's all gone terribly wrong. In no time at all, he finds himself trapped on an isolated rock, pursued by brain-consuming aliens, and at the mercy of a shipload of female convicts. Unsurprisingly, he calls for help. However, when his old friend Christopher Cwej turns up, he can't even remember his own name.

Ghost Devices
by Simon Butcher-Jones

Benny travels to Canopus IV, a world where the primitive locals worship the Spire - a massive structure that bends time - and talk of gods who saw the future. Unfortunately, she soon discovers the planet is on the brink of collapse, and that the whole sector is threatened by holy war. So, to prevent a jihad, Benny must journey to the dead world of Vol'ach Prime, and face a culture dedicated to the destruction of all life.

Mean Streets
by Terrance Dicks

The Project: a criminal scheme so grand in its scale that it casts a shadow across a hundred worlds. Roz Forrester heard of this elaborate undertaking, and asked her squire to return with her to sprawling and violent Megacity - the scene of her discovery. Roz may be dead, but Chris Cwej is not a man to forget a promise, and Bernice is soon the other half of a noble crime-fighting duo.

Tempest
by Christopher Bulis

On the wild and inhospitable planet of Tempest, a train is in trouble, And Bernice, returning home on the luxurious Polar Express, is right in the thick of it. Murder and an inexplicable theft mean that there's a criminal on board; the police are unable to reach them; and so the frightened staff and passengers turn to a hung-over, and rather bad-tempered, archaeologist for much needed assistance.

Walking To Babylon
by Kate Orman

The People - the super-advanced inhabitants of a Dyson sphere have a problem: to stop an illegal time-travel experiment they must destroy ancient Babylon and all its inhabitants. If they do not, war will break out with the dominant power of the Milky Way, and whole galaxies will be destroyed. Their only hope is that Bernice can travel back to the dawn of civilization, and find the culprits - or Earth history will never be the same again.

Also available as an Audio Adventure from Big Finish Productions.

Oblivion
by Dave Stone

A man called Deed is threatening the fabric of the universe and tearing realities apart. At the heart of the disruption, three adventurers, Nathan li Shoa, Leetha and Kiru, are trapped. Their friend Sgloomi Po must save them before they are obliterated, and in his desperation he looks up some old friends. So Bernice joins her feckless ex-husband Jason and her old friend Chris on the rescue mission; but then Sgloomi picks up someone who should really be dead.

The Medusa Effect
by Justin Richards

Medusa, an experimental ship missing for twenty years, is coming home. When one of the investigation team dies mysteriously, Bernice is assigned to help discover what went wrong. But to do so she must solve a riddle. Somehow the original crew are linked to the team put on board - their ghosts still haunt the ship. And the past is catching up with them all in more ways than one.

Dry Pilgrimage
by Paul Leonard and Nick Walters

Thinking she has been offered a blissful pleasure cruise on Dellah's southern ocean, Benny gladly accepts. After all, she has some time on her hands. But, trapped on a yacht with an alien religious sect which forbids alcohol, she soon discovers that all is not well. And, as the ship heads towards a fateful rendezvous, she must unmask a traitor of risk the system being torn apart by war.

The Sword of Forever
by Jim Mortimore

Forced to leave her home of Dellah for Earth, Bernice finds work on an Antarctic dig. Once there she uncovers a link between an ancient reptile race, a secret society and a desperate megalomaniac - as well as the fabled Ark of the Covenant. A desperate race has begun, and she soon realises her deadly knowledge affects not only her own life, but the destiny of the entire human race.

Another Girl, Another Planet
by Martin Day and Len Beech

Lizbeth Fugard, an archaeologist working on the backwater planet of Dimetos, is in trouble. Someone is following her - watching her. Terrified, she calls on an old friend to help. On arrival, however, Bernice becomes involved in politics, gun-running and a centuries-old love affair, and soon realises that unless she can find the truth a cycle of violence and hate will jeopardize more than one planet's future.

Beige Planet Mars
by Lance Parkin and Mark Clapham

Benny arrives on Mars for the 50th anniversary of the battle that saved the planet during the Galactic Wars. When the old man in the next room dies Benny begins an investigation. The key seems to lie 50 years in the past with the treachery of one woman, but Benny finds danger much closer to home.

Where Angels Fear
by Rebecca Levene and Simon Winstone

Something very odd is happening on Dellah. A long-ignored religion is gaining recruits as the faithful talk of their god walking the land once more. It is a time of faith and miracle. But behind this rebirth lies a dark secret - a secret that has terrified the great powers of the galaxy and left Bernice and her friends to face a terrible menace on their own.

The Mary-Sue Extrusion
by Dave Stone

The planet Dellah, once a centre of culture and learning, lies in ruins. Things roam the wreckage, twisting the unfortunate survivors to their unholy will. Professor Bernice Summerfield and some of her friends and colleagues escaped the destruction, But now Bernice has disappeared.

Dead Romance
by Lawrence Miles

Seventies Britain holds no thrills for Christine Summerfield. Nothing exciting happens. The world never changes. That is until ritualistic murders rock the city of London - murders that draw Chrissy into an unreal world of bizarre monsters and threats from another dimension. And at the heart of it all is a handsome enigmatic stranger called Christopher Cwej.

Tears of the Oracle
by Justin Richards

Jason Kane, Bernice's one-time husband, thinks he's found the fabled Oracle of the Lost on the obscure planetoid known only as KS-159. Legend says the Oracle can tell the future and answers any question. But when Bernice and friends arrive, they discover the answers are rarely helpful - and that certain knowledge can kill.

Return to the Fractured Planet
by Dave Stone

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 Proximan Chain for an entity that killed his lover and her friend - an entity that will turn the Chain into its own version of hell.

The Joy Device
by Justin Richards

Bernice is taking a convalescent holiday - in the most lawless sector of human-occupied space. Her guardian angel, Clarence, and her ex-husband, Jason Kane, reluctantly team up to protect her. But keeping Bernice Summerfield out of danger is never simple. She can't resist the challenge of helping to recover an artefact of a long-dead civilization. Before long bystanders and minor characters are 'disappearing' at an alarming rate.

Twilight of the Gods
by Mark Clapham and John de Burgh Miller

It's the final show-down. With the gods on Dellah weakened, the older races are stirring. They're gearing up for war, and the battleground will be humankind's slice of the galaxy. Benny and her allies prepare for the most desperate venture yet: they must return to Dellah and - somehow - defeat the psychopathic deities there. Benny knows it's a hopeless quest. And the future of the galaxy depends on her.

The final New Adventure 'Twilight of the Gods' included the following afterword:

The Publisher's Afterword

This could be the last NA book for some time, and I thought it would only be fair to let you know.
The first New Adventure appeared in 1991. In those days the books were original novels which featured the characters from the BBC's long-running television series Doctor Who; the stories continued the adventures of the Doctor and his companion, Ace, from the point where they were left at the end of Survival, the last to be broadcast of the Seventh Doctor's TV stories.
Bernice Summerfield made her first appearance in only the ninth New Adventure, Paul Cornell's Love and War, published in 1992. Increasingly the stories began to revolve around her; other new characters, such as Chris Cwej, Kadiatu, Roz Forrester, Clarence and Emile, were introduced by other authors.
When in 1997 the BBC declined to renew the license under which the New Adventures were published as Doctor Who novels, it was easy to continue the series without the Doctor and his TARDIS. Bernice took center stage, the covers were redesigned to remove any lingering Gallifreyan associations, and the NA imprint was born.
The New Adventures consitute, I think, the longest-running science-fiction saga in book form - certainly the longest still in print. It's an achievement I'm proud of, but I can't take all the credit. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all the authors who have written for the series; you're too numerous to mention by name, but one of the joys of publishing the New Adventures was that it gave me the chance to provide opportunities to new writers. It gives me enormous satisfaction to know that many of the authors whose first published works were New Adventures stories have gone on to carve out careers as SF authors and in television.
Thanks also to the editors who have worked with me on the New Adventures over the years: Riona MacNamara in the early days; Rebecca Levene, whose contribution to the development of the series cannot be overestimated; Andy Bodle; and Simon Winstone, who took over the NA imprint when Rebecca finally succumbed to the siren call of television work. All of these people have now moved on, and the New Adventures have returned to their point of origin: to me,
And, as I write this in July 1999, I'm about to part company with Virgin Publishing, the parent company of the NA imprint. This book, therefore, is almost certainly the last in the NA series that I will publish.
As for the future of the New Adventures - well, it's in the lap of the gods.
Final and most heartfelt thanks to you: the readers who have stayed with the New Adventures over the years, and have come to know and love the characters. Ave atque vale!

Peter Darvill-Evans
Publisher
July 1999