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'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' is the twentieth [[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures]] novel, and a return to the "main narrative" after the two previous novels which broke from advancing the main narrative. This novel sees a return or [[Irving Braxiatel], [[Clarence]] and [[Chris Cwej]].


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
''''Benny, you're ill. Let us help you. We want to help you. Really we do. This paranoia. These delusions. What you've done - it's driven you insane. Nobody wants to hurt you. We're your friends.''''
''''Benny, you're ill. Let us help you. We want to help you. Really we do. This paranoia. These delusions. What you've done - it's driven you insane. Nobody wants to hurt you. We're your friends.''''


On Dellah, the shattered former home of Bernice Summerfield, only the Advanced Research centre survives - the last remnant of the once famous university. But it's under siege from fanatical groups of religious inquisitors, searching for new converts or dangerous heretics.
On [[Dellah]], the shattered former home of [[Bernice Summerfield]], only the Advanced Research centre survives - the last remnant of the once famous university. But it's under siege from fanatical groups of religious inquisitors, searching for new converts or dangerous heretics.


Benny would have to be mad to go back.
Benny would have to be mad to go back.


Jason Kane, Bernice's one-time husband and all-time opportunist, has found the ancient remains of the Oracle of the Lost on an obscure planetoid known only as KS-159. Or so he says.
[[Jason Kane]], Bernice's one-time husband and all-time opportunist, has found the ancient remains of the Oracle of the Lost on an obscure planetoid known only as KS-159. Or so he says.


Benny would have to be mad to believe him.
Benny would have to be mad to believe him.
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Benny would have to be mad to suggest KS-159.
Benny would have to be mad to suggest KS-159.


The Oracle of the Lost, legend says, can answer any question. But the cryptic answers she gives are never helpful, and often dangerous.
The [[Oracle of the Lost]], legend says, can answer any question. But the cryptic answers she gives are never helpful, and often dangerous.


Benny would have to be mad to reawaken her.
Benny would have to be mad to reawaken her.
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== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Bernice Summerfield]]
*[[Bernice Summerfield]]
** Is diagnosed with a brain tumour.
*[[Irving Braxiatel]]
*[[Clarence]]
*[[Divson Follet]]
*[[Emilia Winston]]
*[[Hayward Denson]]
*[[Chris Cwej]]
*[[God (Worldsphere)|God]]
*[[J-Kibb]]
*[[B-Aaron]]
*[[Skutloid]]
*[[Drexton]]
*[[Garshal]]


* [[Irving Braxiatel]]
== References ==
** Thinks of Bernice as family.
** Is the Doctor's older brother.


* [[Clarence]]
===[[:Category:Biology|Biology]]===
** The Oracle reveals that Clarence was once [[!C-Mel]].
* Benny thinks it was her [[Mary-Sue]] that gave her the brain tumour.


* [[Divson Follet]]
===[[:Category:Groups|Groups]]===
* [[Advanced Research Department]] (ARD) on [[Dellah]] is most likely completely destroyed as it was overrun by religious extremists.


* Emilia Winston
===[[:Category:Individuals|Individuals]]===
*[[Bernice Summerfield]] is diagnosed with a brain tumour.
* [[Irving Braxiatel]] thinks of Bernice as family.
* Across pages 166 - 167 is a brief (yet detailed) description of Braxiatel's time prior to leaving [[Gallifrey]], there is also the statement that [[the Doctor]] is Braxiatel's ''brother''.
* The Oracle reveals that Clarence was once [[!C-Mel]].
* Chris Cwej (following his exposure to radiation in the universe in a bottle) [[Regeneration|regenerates]], not however into a killing machine, but into a short (he's now Benny's height), stocky and mellow voiced man.
:* A [[Time Lord]] in a monk's robe assists Chris through his regeneration. ''("We can give the process a small push" <ref>''Tears of the Oracle, page 200</ref>. It could be [[Cho Je]] given the similarity to he said when he assisted the [[Third Doctor]]'s regeneration)''
:* As he's regenerating he mentions [[body bepple|body beppling]].


* [[Hayward Denson]]
===[[:Category:Locations|Locations]]===
* Braxiatel wins [[KS-159]] in a card game on [[Vega Station]].


* [[Chris Cwej]]
===[[:Category:Species|Species]]===
** Regenerates.
*[[Skutloid]], Drexton and Garshal are [[Ice Warrior]]s.


* [[God (Worldsphere)|God]]
===[[:Category:Time travel|Time travel]]===
 
* Lack of [[telepathy]] hinders [[The People]] in mastering successful [[time travel]].
* [[J-Kibb]]
 
* [[B-Aaron]]


== References ==
===[[:Category:Titles and offices|Titles and offices]]===
* Braxiatel wins [[KS-159]] in a card game on [[Vega Station]].
* Chris Cwej (following his exposure to radiation in the universe in a bottle) [[Regeneration|regenerates]], not however into a killing machine, but into a short (he's now Benny's height), stocky and mellow voiced man.
:* A [[Time Lord]] in a monk's robe assists Chris through his regeneration. ''("We can give the process a small push" <ref>''Tears of the Oracle, page 200</ref>. It could be [[Cho Je]] given the similarity to he said when he assisted the [[Third Doctor]]'s regeneration)''
:* As he's regenerating he mentions [[body bepple|body beppling]].
* Benny thinks it was her [[Mary-Sue]] that gave her the brain tumour.
* Across pages 166 - 167 is a brief (yet detailed) description of Braxiatel's time prior to leaving [[Gallifrey]], there is also the statement that [[the Doctor]] is Braxiatel's ''brother''.
* Lack of [[telepathy]] hinders [[The People]] in mastering successful [[time travel]].
* [[Advanced Research Department]] (ARD) on [[Dellah]] is most likely completely destroyed as it was overrun by religious extremists.
* Skutloid, Drexton and Garshal are [[Ice Warrior]]s.
* Bernice holds the [[Watkinson Chair of Archaeology]], named in honour of [[Edward Watkinson]].
* Bernice holds the [[Watkinson Chair of Archaeology]], named in honour of [[Edward Watkinson]].


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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* Braxiatel uses a communication cube to contact his people for assistance. ([[DW]]: ''[[The War Games]]''
* Braxiatel uses a communication cube to contact his people for assistance in the same way the Second Doctor does in [[DW]]: ''[[The War Games]]''.
* Chris was exposed to the lethal dose of radiation in [[BNA]]: ''[[Dead Romance]]''.
* Chris was exposed to the lethal dose of radiation in [[BNA]]: ''[[Dead Romance]]''.
* Benny got a Mary-Sue in [[BNA]]: ''[[The Mary-Sue Extrusion]]''.
* Benny got a Mary-Sue in [[BNA]]: ''[[The Mary-Sue Extrusion]]''.

Revision as of 16:03, 16 January 2012

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Tears of the Oracle (novel) is the twentieth Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures novel, and a return to the "main narrative" after the two previous novels which broke from advancing the main narrative. This novel sees a return or [[Irving Braxiatel], Clarence and Chris Cwej.

Publisher's summary

'Benny, you're ill. Let us help you. We want to help you. Really we do. This paranoia. These delusions. What you've done - it's driven you insane. Nobody wants to hurt you. We're your friends.'

On Dellah, the shattered former home of Bernice Summerfield, only the Advanced Research centre survives - the last remnant of the once famous university. But it's under siege from fanatical groups of religious inquisitors, searching for new converts or dangerous heretics.

Benny would have to be mad to go back.

Jason Kane, Bernice's one-time husband and all-time opportunist, has found the ancient remains of the Oracle of the Lost on an obscure planetoid known only as KS-159. Or so he says.

Benny would have to be mad to believe him.

The mysterious Irving Braxiatel is looking for somewhere quiet to house his huge collection of... everything.

Benny would have to be mad to suggest KS-159.

The Oracle of the Lost, legend says, can answer any question. But the cryptic answers she gives are never helpful, and often dangerous.

Benny would have to be mad to reawaken her. Or ask a question. Or believe the answer.

Characters

References

Biology

  • Benny thinks it was her Mary-Sue that gave her the brain tumour.

Groups

Individuals

  • Bernice Summerfield is diagnosed with a brain tumour.
  • Irving Braxiatel thinks of Bernice as family.
  • Across pages 166 - 167 is a brief (yet detailed) description of Braxiatel's time prior to leaving Gallifrey, there is also the statement that the Doctor is Braxiatel's brother.
  • The Oracle reveals that Clarence was once !C-Mel.
  • Chris Cwej (following his exposure to radiation in the universe in a bottle) regenerates, not however into a killing machine, but into a short (he's now Benny's height), stocky and mellow voiced man.
  • A Time Lord in a monk's robe assists Chris through his regeneration. ("We can give the process a small push" [1]. It could be Cho Je given the similarity to he said when he assisted the Third Doctor's regeneration)
  • As he's regenerating he mentions body beppling.

Locations

Species

Time travel

Titles and offices

Notes

Continuity

  • Braxiatel uses a communication cube to contact his people for assistance in the same way the Second Doctor does in DW: The War Games.
  • Chris was exposed to the lethal dose of radiation in BNA: Dead Romance.
  • Benny got a Mary-Sue in BNA: The Mary-Sue Extrusion.
  • EDA: Demontage features the Vega Station.
  • There is a brief revisit to Benny's wedding in NA: Happy Endings.
  • !C-Mel (the ship Clarence once was) first appeared in NA: The Also People.
  • When discussing his imminent regeneration of Chris Cwej, the Time Lord mentions Chris had a boddy bepple to appear as a giant teddy bear in NA: Original Sin.
  • Skutloid, Drexton and Garshal all first appeared in BNA: The Medusa Effect.
  • Emilia Winston first appeared in BNA: Dragons' Wrath. This was also the novel in which Braxiatel worked out Joseph wasn't an 'ordinary' porter...and neglected to tell anyone.

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Tears of the Oracle, page 200
  2. ↑ REF: I, Who 2
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