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=== Businesses ===
=== Businesses ===
* [[Pseudopod Enterprises SA]] are a "holding corporation" (ie a front) for other, less savoury companies. They employ the agent to investigate the situation on [[Dellah]].
* [[Pseudopod Enterprises SA]] are a "holding corporation" (ie a front) for other, less savoury companies.


=== Individuals ===
=== Individuals ===
* The [[Stratum Seven Agent]] has [[Stratum Seven]] clearance, which recognises certain skills and standing. There's no such thing as levels one through to six clearance. He a brain print originating in the late [[21st century]].
* The [[Stratum Seven Agent]] has [[Stratum Seven]] clearance.
* [[Roz Forrester]] and [[Chris Cwej]] make quick appearances (in description, but not name). The Agent has met them before.
* Prince [[G'jimbo]], is a quite stupid individual. He gets possessed by an [[All-High God]] (the Dellahan gods).
* Prince [[G'jimbo]], is a quite stupid individual. He gets possessed by an [[All-High God]] (the Dellahan gods).
* [[Emile Mars-Smith]] is hiding out on an unnamed planed meditating to keep control of the [[god]] in his head.
* [[Mira (The Mary Sue Extrusion)|Mira]] isn't a [[telepath]].
* [[Jason Kane]] has been working with Mira. He's described as
* Professor Sabron Jones used to be a [[chemist]] at [[St Oscars University]], but is now held at detention facility, tortured by the inmates. He saw Benny being saved by [[Clarence]].
::"Mid-thirties, with the lean masculinity that comes from putting muscles to their daily use, brown-skinned with distinctive skin tone that spoke of expensively micro-customised [[gene-modification]] so that the skin could withstand high-UV and high-radiation suns. ...a vest that showed the traces of primitive childhood gang [[tattoo]]s on his shoulders and arms."
* [[Mira (The Mary Sue Extrusion)|Mira]] isn't a [[telepath]], but has augmented her body and brain so much and jacked to such a high level that she might as well be one.
* [[Sabron Jones|Professor Sabron Jones]] used to be a [[chemist]] at St Oscars University, but is now held at detention facility, tortured by the inmates. He saw Benny being saved by [[Clarence]].
* [[Bernice Summerfield]] has a "[[Mary-Sue]]" performed. Following the Mary Sue she calls herself Rebecca. Her return to Dellah to pick up [[Wolsey]] was the incident that activated the Mary Sue.
* [[Bernice Summerfield]] has a "[[Mary-Sue]]" performed. Following the Mary Sue she calls herself Rebecca. Her return to Dellah to pick up [[Wolsey]] was the incident that activated the Mary Sue.


=== Literature ===
=== Literature ===
* ''[[A True Adventure of the New Frontier]]'' is the name of the books written (by various authors) about Benny's adventures.
* ''[[A True Adventure of the New Frontier]]'' is the name of the books written (by various authors) about Benny's adventures.
* The Stratum Seven Agent reads ''A True Adventure of the New Frontier'' called ''Ship of Death'' which (badly) details the events on the ''[[Titanian Queen]]''.
* The Stratum Seven Agent reads ''[[A True Adventure of the New Frontier]]'' called ''[[Ship of Death]]'' which (badly) details the events on the ''[[Titanian Queen]]''.


=== Locations ===
=== Locations ===
* [[Earth Station Prime]] is also known as Ptolemaeus Staging Port, Puerto Luminae, Heng O's Refuge, Lunaville, Colony One and the Luna Port.
* [[Earth Station Prime]] is also known as Ptolemaeus Staging Port, Puerto Luminae, Heng O's Refuge, Lunaville, Colony One and the Luna Port.
* [[Beta Caprisis]] is a wasteland caused by high yield detonations that decimated the colony. What was once grass is now like molten glass smeared over the land. There are still moderate levels of radiation.
* [[Beta Caprisis]] is a wasteland caused by high yield detonations that decimated the colony. What was once grass is now like molten glass smeared over the land. There are still moderate levels of radiation.
* [[Dellah]] is turning back to dust as the sky pylon that kept its environment life- sustainable is gone. Without it, the planet does not receive any more rainfall and quickly dries up.


=== Newsreaders ===
=== Newsreaders ===
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=== Technology ===
=== Technology ===
* The Agent mentions [[body bepple]] and [[body swap]].
* The Agent mentions [[body bepple]] and [[body swap]].
* Benny gets a [[Mary-Sue]], which is usually a complete mind wipe and rebuild process, rebuilding a completely new person, complete with memories and personality. Benny's personality was only buried underneath the new personality, not erased.


=== Time travel ===
=== Time travel ===
* [[Time travel]]lers are sometimes called persons of "meta-temporal displacement".
* [[Time travel]]lers are sometimes called persons of "meta-temporal displacement".
* There is a side reference to various Doctors when discussing time travel: "Far too many connotations with gibbering idiots in flappy scarves, elderly gentlemen in wire-frame spectacles, stove pipe hats and so forth" (the [[Fourth Doctor]], [[First Doctor]] and [[Second Doctor]]).
=== Weapons ===
* At the final confrontation on Thanaxos with Volan, he activates a [[stupid bomb]] which locks onto the stupidest person in the room. This is Prince [[G'jimbo]], who is killed.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* This is told entirely from the Stratum Seven Agent's point of view, occasionally dipping into his past and into various emails and ''A True Adventure of the New Frontier'' stories.
* This is told entirely from the Stratum Seven Agent's point of view, occasionally dipping into his past and into various emails and ''A True Adventure of the New Frontier'' stories.
* Although the term "Mary-Sue" has a different meaning in this novel, in fan fiction circles it is also a widely-used term that describes a character created by the author of a fan fiction story who not only serves as an "avatar" or "fantasy figure" representation of the author, but invariably this character "saves the day" for the established characters.
* Although the term "[[Mary-Sue]]" has a different meaning in this novel, in fan fiction circles it is also a widely-used term that describes a character created by the author of a fan fiction story who not only serves as an "avatar" or "fantasy figure" representation of the author, but invariably this character "saves the day" for the established characters.
* [[Roz Forrester]] and [[Chris Cwej]] make quick appearances (in description, but not name). The Agent has met them before.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==

Revision as of 01:20, 28 October 2019

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The Mary-Sue Extrusion is the eighteenth Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures novel. It is the first novel since Deadfall to be almost entirely told from a point of view other than Bernice Summerfield's. The story is primarily told from the point of view of the (unnamed) Stratum Seven Agent. He does however encounter several of Bernice's friends and associates throughout the novel.

Publisher's summary

"Bernice Summerfield seemed to hold the key. She was in it up to her neck, and she was the one person left who could tell me what I needed to know. I rather hoped it wouldn't be necessary to snap said neck and kill her."

The planet Dellah was once one of the cultural centres of the galaxy. Now, it lies in ruins and things walk through the barren landscape, twisting the unfortunates who remain there to their unholy will.

The tragic effects of this cataclysm have been felt throughout local space, from cruel and draconian Thanaxos to the multiplexal chaos of the Proximan Chain Rafts. All know the ultimate result: a war is coming - is inevitable - and is set to blow the fragile stability of the galactic sector apart.

Only one person has the pieces of the puzzle that might prevent the coming collapse - Bernice Summerfield. The problem is, she's missing, and what's more she's not feeling precisely herself. And if Benny doesn't find out exactly who she is, and how she can fit into her newly shattered world, there isn't going to be a world for her to come back to at all.

Plot

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Characters

References

Businesses

Individuals

Literature

Locations

  • Earth Station Prime is also known as Ptolemaeus Staging Port, Puerto Luminae, Heng O's Refuge, Lunaville, Colony One and the Luna Port.
  • Beta Caprisis is a wasteland caused by high yield detonations that decimated the colony. What was once grass is now like molten glass smeared over the land. There are still moderate levels of radiation.

Newsreaders

Planets

  • Professor Sabron Jones grew begonias that Benny found on the Earth's moon.

Species

Technology

Time travel

  • Time travellers are sometimes called persons of "meta-temporal displacement".

Notes

  • This is told entirely from the Stratum Seven Agent's point of view, occasionally dipping into his past and into various emails and A True Adventure of the New Frontier stories.
  • Although the term "Mary-Sue" has a different meaning in this novel, in fan fiction circles it is also a widely-used term that describes a character created by the author of a fan fiction story who not only serves as an "avatar" or "fantasy figure" representation of the author, but invariably this character "saves the day" for the established characters.
  • Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej make quick appearances (in description, but not name). The Agent has met them before.

Continuity

  • Benny was saved and rescued from Dellah in PROSE: Where Angels Fear.
  • There is an excerpt from A True Adventure of a New Frontier called Ship of Death, which features a particularly bad retelling of PROSE: Ship of Fools.

External links

Footnotes

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