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|image           = Tempest.jpg
|name= Tempest
|series         = [[Virgin New Adventures]]
|image= Tempest.jpg  
|range          = Virgin New Adventures
|series= [[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures|Virgin <br /> Bernice Summerfield New Adventures]]
|number in range = 70
|number= 9  
|number          = 9
|main character= [[Bernice Summerfield]]
|main character = [[Bernice Summerfield]]
|featuring=  
|featuring       =  
|enemy= Nathan Costermann  
|enemy           = [[Nathan Costermann|Costermann]]
|setting= [[Tempest]], [[2594]]  
|setting         = [[Tempest (planet)|Tempest]], [[2594]]
|writer= [[Christopher Bulis]]  
|writer         = Christopher Bulis
|publisher= [[Virgin Books]]
|cover          = [[Peter Elson]]
|release date= [[2 January (releases)|2 January]], [[1998]]
|publisher       = Virgin Books
|format= Paperback Book, 265 Pages  
|release date   = 2 January 1998
|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20523-5  
|format         = Paperback Book; 22 Chapters, 265 Pages
|prev= Mean Streets (novel)  
|isbn           = ISBN 0-426-20523-5
|next= Walking to Babylon (novel)}}
|prev           = Mean Streets (novel)
'''''Tempest''''' is the ninth [[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures]] novel, published in [[1998]]. This was [[Christopher Bulis]]' final contribution to the Virgin New Adventures range.  
|next           = Walking to Babylon (novel)
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'''''Tempest''''' was the seventieth [[Virgin New Adventures]] novel, published in [[1998 (releases)|1998]]. This was [[Christopher Bulis]]' final contribution to the Virgin New Adventures range.


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
''Smith consulted his watch very deliberately. "You have one hour to find the Imnulate and hand it over to me. If you do not, I will tear this train and its passengers apart piece by piece!"''
''[[Smith (Tempest)|Smith]] consulted his watch very deliberately. "You have one hour to find the Imnulate and hand it over to me. If you do not, I will tear this train and its passengers apart piece by piece!"''


Tempest: a wild and untamed world perpetually wreathed in cloud and storms. The only means of long-distance travel across its surface are the great transcontinental monorails that traverse its lonely and dangerous wastelands. Returning home from a lucrative lecture, Professor Bernice Summerfield finds herself on the most celebrated of these mighty trains.
[[Tempest (planet)|Tempest]]: a wild and untamed world perpetually wreathed in cloud and storms. The only means of long-distance travel across its surface are the great transcontinental monorails that traverse its lonely and dangerous wastelands. Returning home from a lucrative lecture, [[Bernice Summerfield|Professor Bernice Summerfield]] finds herself on the most celebrated of these mighty trains.


The Drell Imnulate: a fabulous and unique religious idol. Precious enough to kill for. So important to those rival factions who follow the way of its maker that they will dare anything to ensure its return.
The [[Drell Imnulate]]: a fabulous and unique religious idol. Precious enough to kill for. So important to those rival factions who follow the way of its maker that they will dare anything to ensure its return.


Isolated in the wilderness and far from civilisation, death strikes the luxurious Polar Express, and a routine journey turns into a nightmare. But can Bernice save a train on the brink of disaster?
Isolated in the wilderness and far from civilisation, death strikes the luxurious Polar Express, and a routine journey turns into a nightmare. But can Bernice save a train on the brink of disaster?
== Chapter titles ==
* Prologue
# Tempest
# Mr Smith
# Departure
# Murder on the Polar Express
# Suspect
# Shadows
# Technical Matters
# Special Duty
# Detection by Numbers
# Under Pressure
# Heavy Weather
# Landslide
# A Shadow Explained
# Deceptions and Rewards
# Ultimatum
# The Battle of the Train
# Flight
# Jigsaw
# Anatomy of a Crime
# Justice
* Epilogue


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
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* [[Smith (Tempest)|Tempest]]
* [[Smith (Tempest)|Tempest]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
*[[Thaon 5]] orbits the gas giant [[Thaon]].  
* [[Thaon 5]] orbits the gas giant [[Thaon]].
*[[Klondyke]] is a mining world.
* [[Klondyke]] is a mining world.
*[[Hecten City]] is on [[Mondor]].
* [[Hecten City]] is on [[Mondor]].


=== Foods and beverages ===
=== Foods and beverages ===
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=== Objects ===
=== Objects ===
* [[Bernice Summerfield]] has a full [[environmental suit]] rating trained to function in 0–100 atmospheres.
* Benny has a full [[environmental suit]] rating trained to function in 0–100 atmospheres.
* The [[Drell Imnulate]] is the crystal everyone seems to want.
* The [[Drell Imnulate]] is the crystal everyone seems to want.


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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
''to be added''
* Benny mentions Agatha Christie. The [[Tenth Doctor]] would meet her in person during the events of {{cs|The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)}}.


== External links ==
== External links ==
* {{dwrefguide|who_na70.htm|Tempest}}
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* {{whoniverse|bs09.php|Tempest}}
* {{whoniverse|na70|Tempest}}
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/tempest.htm The Cloister Library: '''Tempest''']
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Tempest was the seventieth Virgin New Adventures novel, published in 1998. This was Christopher Bulis' final contribution to the Virgin New Adventures range.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Smith consulted his watch very deliberately. "You have one hour to find the Imnulate and hand it over to me. If you do not, I will tear this train and its passengers apart piece by piece!"

Tempest: a wild and untamed world perpetually wreathed in cloud and storms. The only means of long-distance travel across its surface are the great transcontinental monorails that traverse its lonely and dangerous wastelands. Returning home from a lucrative lecture, Professor Bernice Summerfield finds herself on the most celebrated of these mighty trains.

The Drell Imnulate: a fabulous and unique religious idol. Precious enough to kill for. So important to those rival factions who follow the way of its maker that they will dare anything to ensure its return.

Isolated in the wilderness and far from civilisation, death strikes the luxurious Polar Express, and a routine journey turns into a nightmare. But can Bernice save a train on the brink of disaster?

Chapter titles[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Prologue
  1. Tempest
  2. Mr Smith
  3. Departure
  4. Murder on the Polar Express
  5. Suspect
  6. Shadows
  7. Technical Matters
  8. Special Duty
  9. Detection by Numbers
  10. Under Pressure
  11. Heavy Weather
  12. Landslide
  13. A Shadow Explained
  14. Deceptions and Rewards
  15. Ultimatum
  16. The Battle of the Train
  17. Flight
  18. Jigsaw
  19. Anatomy of a Crime
  20. Justice
  • Epilogue

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Foods and beverages[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Benny manages to absolve herself of any crime on the train by being too drunk to do anything.

Objects[[edit] | [edit source]]

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Nargs are a race employed for physical labour.

Writers[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The setting and style of this novel is quite similar to Agatha Christie.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Benny mentions Agatha Christie. The Tenth Doctor would meet her in person during the events of The Unicorn and the Wasp [+]Loading...["The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)"].

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

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