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|image          = Dry Pilgrimage.jpg
name= Dry Pilgrimage |
|series         = [[Virgin New Adventures]]
image= Dry_Pilgrimage.jpg |
|range          = Virgin New Adventures
series= [[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures|Virgin <br /> Bernice Summerfield New Adventures]] |
|number in range = 74
number= 13 |
|number         = 74
main character= [[Bernice Summerfield]]|
|main character = [[Bernice Summerfield]]
featuring= |
|featuring       =  
enemy= |
|enemy           = The Khulyan, Czarita Violaine
year= [[Dellah]], [[Silvasic Sea]], ''[[Lady of Lorelei]]'', [[2595]] |
|setting        = [[Dellah]], [[2595]]
writer= [[Paul Leonard]] and [[Nick Walters]]|
|writer         = Paul Leonard, Nick Walters
publisher= [[Virgin Books]] |
|cover          = [[John Sullivan]]
release date= [[May]], [[1998]] |
|publisher       = Virgin Books
format= Paperback Book, ? Pages |
|release date   = 3 May 1998
isbn= ISBN 0-426-20525-1 |
|format         = Paperback Book, 292 Pages
prev= The Medusa Effect (novel) |
|isbn           = ISBN 0-426-20525-1
next= The Sword of Forever (novel)}}
|prev           = The Medusa Effect (novel)
'''''Dry Pilgrimage''''' is the thirteenth [[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures]] novel. Featuring [[Bernice Summerfield]] this is the first novel to be entirely set on the planet [[Dellah]].
|next           = The Sword of Forever (novel)
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'''''Dry Pilgrimage''''' was the thirteenth [[Virgin New Adventures]] novel. Featuring [[Bernice Summerfield]], this was the first novel to be entirely set on the planet [[Dellah]].


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
''''I am going to make you immortal.''''
''"I am going to make you immortal."''


Bored with her job, bored with being perpetually skint, Bernice Summerfield leaps at the chance of a free holiday arranged by her new friend [[Maeve Ruthven]], St Oscar's Professor of [[Comparative Religion]].
Bored with her job, bored with being perpetually skint, [[Bernice Summerfield]] leaps at the chance of a free holiday arranged by her new friend [[Maeve Ruthven]], [[St Oscar's University|St Oscar's]] [[Professor]] of [[Comparative Religion]].


But all is not what it seems.
But all is not what it seems.


Benny's holiday rapidly goes from bad to worse to downright dangerous. For a start, the 'luxury cruise' is a religious pilgrimage, and alcohol is forbidden to those on board. Then she is attacked, badly injured and confined to a wheelchair.
Benny's holiday rapidly goes from bad to worse to downright dangerous. For a start, the "luxury cruise" is a religious pilgrimage, and alcohol is forbidden to those on board. Then she is attacked, badly injured and confined to a wheelchair.


And that's before the murder.
And that's before the murder.


Benny finds herself caught in a web of intrigue -- not knowing who on board can be trusted or which way to turn. And with the future of more than one world depending on her actions, she must decide who to believe, expose the hidden killer and prevent a ruthless grab for power.  
Benny finds herself caught in a web of intrigue — not knowing who on board can be trusted or which way to turn. And with the future of more than one world depending on her actions, she must decide who to believe, expose the hidden killer and prevent a ruthless grab for power.
 
== Chapter titles ==
# Out to Get You
# Living Too Late
# Trouble With the Plumbing
# New Face in Hell
# I Need Proof Before Belief
# Between a Man and a Woman
# Waking Up in the Sun
# Secrets and Lies
# To Hide in Death Awhile
# A Conversation
# Suddenly My Feet Are Feet of Mud, It All Goes Slo-Mo
# Not Only Love Can Break Your Heart
# The Second Born is Dead
# Audience With the Mind
# Rage Against the Machine
# Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime
# War Stories
# When You Tire of One Side the Other Serves You Best
# Violaine
# A War is Never Over, a Soldier Never Dies
# Unholy Transference
# Who Had Faith, Who Betrayed?
# Bottom of the Well
# The Great Escape
# True Faith
# Life's Hard and Then You Don't Die
# At the Edge of the Sea
# I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
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== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Bernice Summerfield]]
* [[Bernice Summerfield]]
* [[Vitor Pluse]]  
* [[Vitor Pluse]]
* [[Jane Waspo]]
* [[Jane Waspo]]
* [[Maeve Ruthven]]
* [[Maeve Ruthven]]
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* Professor [[Hamilton Smith]]
* Professor [[Hamilton Smith]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
=== Aquatic vessels ===
=== Aquatic vessels ===
* Captain [[Dieter Fontana]] is captain of the ''[[Lady of Lorelei]]''.
* Captain Dieter Fontana is captain of the ''[[Lady of Lorelei]]''.


=== Fashion and clothing ===
=== Fashion and clothing ===
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=== Foods and beverages ===
=== Foods and beverages ===
* Benny, in a desperate search for [[alcohol]], drinks the potent (eye watering) [[Brettellian Potato Spirit]].
* Benny, in a desperate search for [[alcohol]], drinks the potent (eye watering) [[Brettellian Potato Spirit]].
* Despite being on a supposedly alcohol-free 'dry' cruise, Bernice still manages to consume a hefty amount of [[alcohol]].
* [[Vilbian]] is a [[Saraani]]. He enjoys alcohol, which is illegal for a Saraani. He steals Benny's alcohol.


=== Individuals ===
=== Individuals ===
* Maeve Ruthven is a Marunianist. She gets killed, has her mind put inside a [[Saraani]], then inside a [[bioconstruct]], goes on a rampage, recovers and then dies.
* Maeve Ruthven gets killed, has her mind put inside a [[Saraani]], then inside a [[bioconstruct]], goes on a rampage, recovers and then dies.
* [[Brion Arvaile]] is Maeve’s ex-husband.
* Maeve Ruthven is a [[professor]] and member of St Oscar's [[Comparative Religion]] department.
* [[Theo Tamlyn]] swoons for Benny. Later, he gets turned into a bioconstruct.
* Martine Ingersköld is a [[climatologist]].
* [[Karl Donimo]] flirts with Benny. It’s mutual.
* Professor Hamilton Smith specialises in [[alien-human interaction]].
 
=== Individuals by profession ===
* [[Maeve Ruthven]] is a Professor and member of St Oscar’s [[Comparative Religion]] department.
* [[Martine Ingersköld]] is a [[climatologist]].
* Professor [[Hamilton Smith]] specialises in [[alien-human interaction]].


=== Planets ===
=== Planets ===
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=== Species ===
=== Species ===
* Professor Hamilton Smith proposes theories on: [[Chelonian]]s, [[Krakenite]]s, [[Valethske]], [[Xarax]], [[Tzun]] and [[Tractite]]s.
* The [[Oblongooni]] have thirteen genders.
* The [[Oblongooni]] have thirteen genders.
== Cover Gallery ==
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Dry_Pilgrimage.jpg|Cover
Dry pilgrimage textless.jpg|Textless Cover
Dry pilgrimage sketch.jpg|Sketch
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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
''to be added''
* [[Theo Tamlyn]] has studied [[Grel]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Oh No It Isn't! (novel)|Oh No It Isn't!]]'', et al.) [[Canopusi]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Ghost Devices (novel)|Ghost Devices]]'') and [[Chelonian]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Highest Science (novel)|The Highest Science]]'', et al.)
* [[Hamilton Smith]] proposes theories on: Chelonians, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Highest Science (novel)|The Highest Science]]'', et al.) [[Krakenite]]s, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dreamstone Moon (novel)|Dreamstone Moon]]'') [[Valethske]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Superior Beings (novel)|Superior Beings]]'') [[Xarax]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dancing the Code (novel)|Dancing the Code]]'') [[Tzun]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'') and [[Tractite]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Genocide (novel)|Genocide]]'')
* Bernice has several bottles of [[Chateau Yquatine]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Fall of Yquatine (novel)|The Fall of Yquatine]]'')
* Hamilton Smith is later mentioned in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Fall of Yquatine (novel)|The Fall of Yquatine]]'', ''[[Superior Beings (novel)|Superior Beings]]'', and ''[[Mentioning the War (short story)|Mentioning the War]]''.


== External links ==
== External links ==
* {{Dwrefguide|who_na74.htm|Dry Pilgrimage}}
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* {{Whoniverse|bs13.php|Dry Pilgrimage}}
* {{whoniverse|na74|Dry Pilgrimage}}
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/dryp.htm The Cloister Library: '''Dry Pilgrimage''']
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Dry Pilgrimage was the thirteenth Virgin New Adventures novel. Featuring Bernice Summerfield, this was the first novel to be entirely set on the planet Dellah.

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

"I am going to make you immortal."

Bored with her job, bored with being perpetually skint, Bernice Summerfield leaps at the chance of a free holiday arranged by her new friend Maeve Ruthven, St Oscar's Professor of Comparative Religion.

But all is not what it seems.

Benny's holiday rapidly goes from bad to worse to downright dangerous. For a start, the "luxury cruise" is a religious pilgrimage, and alcohol is forbidden to those on board. Then she is attacked, badly injured and confined to a wheelchair.

And that's before the murder.

Benny finds herself caught in a web of intrigue — not knowing who on board can be trusted or which way to turn. And with the future of more than one world depending on her actions, she must decide who to believe, expose the hidden killer and prevent a ruthless grab for power.

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

  1. Out to Get You
  2. Living Too Late
  3. Trouble With the Plumbing
  4. New Face in Hell
  5. I Need Proof Before Belief
  6. Between a Man and a Woman
  7. Waking Up in the Sun
  8. Secrets and Lies
  9. To Hide in Death Awhile
  10. A Conversation
  11. Suddenly My Feet Are Feet of Mud, It All Goes Slo-Mo
  12. Not Only Love Can Break Your Heart
  13. The Second Born is Dead
  14. Audience With the Mind
  15. Rage Against the Machine
  16. Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime
  17. War Stories
  18. When You Tire of One Side the Other Serves You Best
  19. Violaine
  20. A War is Never Over, a Soldier Never Dies
  21. Unholy Transference
  22. Who Had Faith, Who Betrayed?
  23. Bottom of the Well
  24. The Great Escape
  25. True Faith
  26. Life's Hard and Then You Don't Die
  27. At the Edge of the Sea
  28. I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Aquatic vessels[[edit] | [edit source]]

Fashion and clothing[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Bernice wears a purple velvet bikini, with gold tassels on the nipples and a big star on the crotch.

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

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Planets[[edit] | [edit source]]

Religion[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Marunianism was a religion which believed all science is evil, but is now just against: genetics, vivisection and for no reason, experimentation. Its roots are in Protestantism.

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

Cover Gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]

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    Cover

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    Textless Cover

  • Sketch

    Sketch

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

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