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The '''Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures''' were a series of novels that featured [[Bernice Summerfield]] and her "supporting cast". They were published by [[Virgin Books]] following the loss of the license that allowed them to publish an original series of novels, the [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] series, which could legally use characters and concepts derived from ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Though most featured Bernice herself, two, ''[[Deadfall]]'' and ''[[Dead Romance]]'', centred on other characters.
[[File:NA001 genesys.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The first NA, ''[[Timewyrm: Genesys]]'', displaying the initial cover design.]]
The New Adventures published by [[Virgin Books]] were a series of original, full-length ''[[Doctor Who]]'' novels that continued the adventures of the [[Seventh Doctor]] (and, originally, [[Ace]]) following on from the TV story, ''[[Survival]]''. These books were notable for having greater scope than most televised stories and as the books were geared for an older audience, included more mature themes including language, violence and sexuality. One book in the "NA" series, ''[[Shakedown]]'' was unique in that it was a novelization of the non-[[BBC]] spin-off production, ''[[Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans]]'', but greatly expanded to include the Doctor.
The series began in in May 1997 and ended in October 1999. [[Big Finish Productions]] would later obtain the license to these characters for their own line of  [[Big Finish Bernice Summerfield Series|audios, novels and short fiction featuring Benny]] and her supporting cast.  


The series concluded with the [[Eighth Doctor]] novel ''[[The Dying Days]]''. The series ended because, following the broadcast of the 1996 TV movie, [[BBC Books]] took over the license for publishing original Doctor Who fiction, although there was an overlap of more than a year to allow Virgin to publish its contracted novels. One immediate change, however, saw the book line change its branding, relegating the Doctor Who logo to the spine and rebranding the series as "The New Adventures". Ultimately, ''The Dying Days'' contained no references to ''Doctor Who'' on the cover at all.
The book series initially used the same cover designs as that for the later ''Doctor Who'' NA books, except with a newly commissioned New Adventures logo. A new cover design was introduced with ''[[Another Girl, Another Planet]]'', which removed the NA identifier from the front cover and introduced a new title-lettering style.
 
After ''The Dying Days'' concluded, the books continued with Bernice as the principal character in a new [[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures|series of novels]] which were officially dubbed "The New Adventures" (with a new NA logo introduced).
 
Virgin launched two spin-off lines following the initial success of the NA line: the [[Virgin Decalogs|Decalogs]], a series of five short story collections, and the [[Virgin Missing Adventures|Missing Adventures]], chronicling the adventures of the first six Doctors.
 
Although the continuity of the NA line was initially ignored by the BBC Books lines, this restriction was eventually relaxed and references to NA and MA adventures began to appear. As for the series' canonicity with televised Doctor Who, that is a question that falls into a grey area, especially given that one NA novel, ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'', was later adapted as the television episodes ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'' and ''[[The Family of Blood]]''.
 
== Doctor Who: The New Adventures ==


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|''#'' || '''Title''' || '''Author''' || '''Doctor''' || '''Companions''' || '''Published'''
|'''Title''' || '''Author''' || '''Featuring''' || '''Published'''
|-
| 1 || ''[[Timewyrm: Genesys]]'' || [[John Peel]] || [[Seventh Doctor|7th]] || [[Ace]] || June 1991
|-
| 2 || ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus]]'' || [[Terrance Dicks]] || 7th || Ace || August 1991
|-
| 3 || ''[[Timewyrm: Apocalypse]]'' || [[Nigel Robinson]] || 7th || Ace || October 1991
|-
| 4 || ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation]]'' || [[Paul Cornell]] || 7th || Ace || December 1991
|-
| 5 || ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'' || [[Marc Platt]] || 7th || Ace || February 1992
|-
| 6 || ''[[Cat's Cradle: Warhead]]'' || [[Andrew Cartmel]] || 7th || Ace || April 1992
|-
| 7 || ''[[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]]'' || [[Andrew Hunt]] || 7th || Ace || June 1992
|-
| 8 || ''[[Nightshade (novel)|Nightshade]]'' || [[Mark Gatiss]] || 7th || Ace || August 1992
|-
| 9 || ''[[Love and War]]'' || [[Paul Cornell]] || 7th || Ace and [[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice]] (introduction)|| October 1992
|-
| 10 || ''[[Transit]]'' || [[Ben Aaronovitch]] || 7th || Bernice || December 1992
|-
| 11 || ''[[The Highest Science]]'' || [[Gareth Roberts]] || 7th || Bernice || February 1993
|-
| 12 || ''[[The Pit]]'' || [[Neil Penswick]] || 7th || Bernice || March 1993
|-
| 13 || ''[[Deceit]]'' || [[Peter Darvill-Evans]] || 7th || Ace and Bernice || April 1993
|-
| 14 || ''[[Lucifer Rising]]'' || [[Jim Mortimore]] and [[Andy Lane]] || 7th || Ace and Bernice || May 1993
|-
| 15 || ''[[White Darkness]]'' || [[David A. McIntee]] || 7th || Ace and Bernice || June 1993
|-
| 16 || ''[[Shadowmind]]'' || [[Christopher Bulis]] || 7th || Ace and Bernice || July 1993
|-
| 17 || ''[[Birthright (novel)|Birthright]]'' || [[Nigel Robinson]] || 7th, [[Muldwych]] || Ace and Bernice || August 1993
|-
| 18 || ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'' || [[David Banks]] || 7th || none || September 1993
|-
| 19 || ''[[Blood Heat]]'' || [[Jim Mortimore]] || 7th || Ace and Bernice || October 1993
|-
| 20 || ''[[The Dimension Riders]]'' || [[Daniel Blythe]] || 7th || Ace and Bernice || November 1993
|-
| 21 || ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'' || [[Kate Orman]] || 7th || Ace and Bernice || December 1993
|-
| 22 || ''[[Conundrum (novel)|Conundrum]]'' || [[Steve Lyons]] || 7th || Ace and Bernice || January 1994
|-
| 23 || ''[[No Future]]'' || [[Paul Cornell]] || 7th || Ace and Bernice || February 1994
|-
| 24 || ''[[Tragedy Day (novel)|Tragedy Day]]'' || [[Gareth Roberts]] || 7th || Ace and Bernice || March 1994
|-
| 25 || ''[[Legacy]]'' || [[Gary Russell]] || 7th || Ace and Bernice || April 1994
|-
| 26 || ''[[Theatre of War]]'' || [[Justin Richards]] || 7th || Ace and Bernice || May 1994
|-
| 27 || ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'' || [[Andy Lane]] || 7th || Ace and Bernice || June 1994
|-
| 28 || ''[[Blood Harvest]]'' || [[Terrance Dicks]] || 7th || Ace and Bernice || July 1994
|-
| 29 || ''[[Strange England]]'' || [[Simon Messingham]] || 7th || Ace and Bernice || August 1994
|-
| 30 || ''[[First Frontier]]'' || [[David A. McIntee]] || 7th || Ace and Bernice || September 1994
|-
| 31 || ''[[St Anthony's Fire (novel)|St Anthony's Fire]]'' || [[Mark Gatiss]] || 7th || Ace and Bernice || October 1994
|-
| 32 || ''[[Falls the Shadow]]'' || [[Daniel O'Mahony]] || 7th || Ace and Bernice || November 1994
|-
| 33 || ''[[Parasite (novel)|Parasite]]'' || [[Jim Mortimore]] || 7th || Ace and Bernice || December 1994
|-
| 34 || ''[[Warlock (novel)|Warlock]]'' || [[Andrew Cartmel]] || 7th || Ace and Bernice || January 1995
|-
| 35 || ''[[Set Piece]]'' || [[Kate Orman]] || 7th || Ace and Bernice || February 1995
|-
| 36 || ''[[Infinite Requiem]]'' || [[Daniel Blythe]] || 7th || Bernice || March 1995
|-
| 37 || ''[[Sanctuary]]'' || [[David A. McIntee]] || 7th || Bernice || April 1995
|-
| 38 || ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'' || [[Paul Cornell]] || 7th || Bernice || May 1995
|-
|-
| 39 || ''[[Original Sin]]'' || [[Andy Lane]] || 7th || Bernice, [[Chris Cwej|Chris]] (introduction) and [[Roz Forrester|Roz]] (introduction)|| June 1995
|-
|-
| 40 || ''[[Sky Pirates!]]'' || [[Dave Stone]] || 7th || Bernice, Chris and Roz || July 1995
|''[[Oh No It Isn't! (novel)|Oh No It Isn't!]]''||[[Paul Cornell]] || [[Wolsey]] || May 1997
|-
|-
| 41 || ''[[Zamper (novel)|Zamper]]'' || [[Gareth Roberts]] || 7th || Bernice, Chris and Roz || August 1995
|''[[Dragons' Wrath (novel)|Dragons' Wrath]]''||[[Justin Richards]] || [[Irving Braxiatel]] || June 1997
|-
|-
| 42 || ''[[Toy Soldiers]]'' || [[Paul Leonard]] || 7th || Bernice, Chris and Roz || September 1995
|'' [[Beyond the Sun (novel)|Beyond the Sun]]''||[[Matthew Jones]] || [[Jason Kane]], [[Emile Mars-Smith]] || July 1997
|-
|-
| 43 || ''[[Head Games]]'' || [[Steve Lyons]] || 7th || Bernice, Chris and Roz || October 1995
|''[[Ship of Fools (novel)|Ship of Fools]]''||[[Dave Stone]] || none || August 1997
|-
|-
| 44 || ''[[The Also People]]'' || [[Ben Aaronovitch]] || 7th || Bernice, Chris and Roz || November 1995
|''[[Down]]''||[[Lawrence Miles]] || [[!X]] || September 1997
|-
|-
| 45 || ''[[Shakedown]]'' || [[Terrance Dicks]] || 7th || Bernice, Chris and Roz || December 1995
|''[[Deadfall]]''||[[Gary Russell]] || [[Chris Cwej]] || October 1997
|-
|-
| 46 || ''[[Just War (novel)|Just War]]'' || [[Lance Parkin]] || 7th || Bernice, Chris and Roz || January 1996
|''[[Ghost Devices]]''||[[Simon Bucher-Jones]] || God, [[Clarence]] || November 1997
|-
|-
| 47 || ''[[Warchild]]'' || [[Andrew Cartmel]] || 7th || Bernice, Chris and Roz || February 1996
|''[[Mean Streets]]''||[[Terrance Dicks]] || [[Chris Cwej]] || December 1997
|-
|-
| 48 || ''[[Sleepy]]'' || [[Kate Orman]] || 7th || Bernice, Chris and Roz || March 1996
|'' [[Tempest (novel)|Tempest]]''||[[Christopher Bulis]] || none || January 1998
|-
|-
| 49 || ''[[Death and Diplomacy]]'' || [[Dave Stone]] || 7th || Bernice, Chris and Roz || April 1996
|''[[Walking to Babylon (novel)|Walking to Babylon]]''||[[Kate Orman]] || none || February 1998
|-
|-
| 50 || ''[[Happy Endings]]'' || [[Paul Cornell]] || 7th || Bernice, Chris and Roz || May 1996
|''[[Oblivion (novel)|Oblivion]]''||[[Dave Stone]] || [[Jason Kane]], [[Chris Cwej]], [[Roz Forrester]] || March 1998
|-
|-
| 51 || ''[[GodEngine (novel)|GodEngine]]'' || [[Craig Hinton]] || 7th || Chris and Roz || June 1996
|''[[The Medusa Effect]]''||[[Justin Richards]] || [[Irving Braxiatel]] || April 1998
|-
|-
| 52 || ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'' || [[Lawrence Miles]] || 7th || Chris and Roz || July 1996
|''[[Dry Pilgrimage]]''||[[Paul Leonard]] & [[Nick Walters]] || none || May 1998
|-
|-
| 53 || ''[[Return of the Living Dad]]'' || [[Kate Orman]] || 7th || Bernice, Chris and Roz || August 1996
|''[[The Sword of Forever]]''||[[Jim Mortimore]] || none || June 1998
|-
|-
| 54 || ''[[The Death of Art]]'' || [[Simon Bucher-Jones]] || 7th || Chris and Roz || September 1996
|''[[Another Girl, Another Planet]]''||[[Martin Day]] & [[Len Beech]] || none || August 1998
|-
|-
| 55 || ''[[Damaged Goods]]'' || [[Russell T Davies]] || 7th || Chris and Roz || October 1996
|''[[Beige Planet Mars]]''||[[Lance Parkin]] & [[Mark Clapham]] || none || October 1998
|-
|-
| 56 || ''[[So Vile a Sin]]'' || [[Ben Aaronovitch]] and [[Kate Orman]] || 7th || Chris and Roz || May 1997
|''[[Where Angels Fear]]''||[[Rebecca Levene]] & [[Simon Winstone]] || [[Irving Braxiatel]] || December 1998
|-
|-
| 57 || ''[[Bad Therapy]]'' || [[Matthew Jones]] || 7th || Chris || December 1996
|''[[The Mary-Sue Extrusion]]''||[[Dave Stone]] || [[Jason Kane]] || February 1999
|-
|-
| 58 || ''[[Eternity Weeps]]'' || [[Jim Mortimore]] || 7th || Chris || January 1997
|''[[Dead Romance]]''||[[Lawrence Miles]] || [[Christine Summerfield]] (introduction), [[Chris Cwej]] || April 1999
|-
|-
| 59 || ''[[The Room With No Doors]]'' || [[Kate Orman]] || 7th || Chris || February 1997
|''[[Tears of the Oracle]]''||[[Justin Richards]] || [[Jason Kane]], [[Irving Braxiatel]] || June 1999
|-
|-
| 60 || ''[[Lungbarrow]]'' || [[Marc Platt]] || 7th || Chris, Romana,  [[Leela]], Ace, [[K9 Mark I]] and [[K9 Mark II|Mark II]] || March 1997
|''[[Return to the Fractured Planet]]''||[[Dave Stone]] || [[Irving Braxiatel]] || August 1999
|-
|-
| 61 || ''[[The Dying Days]]'' || [[Lance Parkin]] || [[Eighth Doctor|8th]] || Bernice, [[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] and [[UNIT]] || April 1997
|''[[The Joy Device]]''||[[Justin Richards]] || none || October 1999
|-
|-
|''[[Twilight of the Gods (BNA novel)|Twilight of the Gods]]''||[[Mark Clapham]] & <br />[[Jon de Burgh Miller]] || [[Jason Kane]], [[Chris Cwej]],<br /> [[Clarence]], [[Irving Braxiatel]] || December 1999
|}
|}


== Notes ==
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=== Continuity ===
* The New Adventures introduced a few new companions into the life of the Doctor: [[Bernice Summerfield]] (debuting in ''[[Love and War]]''), [[Roz Forrester]] and [[Chris Cwej]] (debuting in ''[[Original Sin]]'') and [[Wolsey]] the [[cat]] (who debuted in ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'').
* Ace was written out in ''Love and War'' and left the Doctor for three years (in terms of Ace's timestream) before reuniting with him in ''[[Deceit]]''. During that time she changed considerably and turned into what some fans refer to as "Space Bitch Ace". Ace left a second time, permanently, in ''[[Set Piece]]''. Ace's character development and departure were contradicted by later media, which also contradicted each other.
* Apart from the novels, a few of the comics and audios take place specifically in the New Adventures continuity. These feature the Seventh Doctor, Bernice and the older version of Ace.
* ''[[Eternity Weeps]]'' portrays the death (some years in the future, from the viewpoint of readers when the book first came out) of the [[Third Doctor]]'s companion, [[Liz Shaw]].
* Several novels of the New Adventures featured old foes from the TV series, including:
** Timewyrm: Exodus - The [[War Chief]].
** Iceberg - [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] and the [[Cyber-Controller]].
** Blood Heat - [[Silurian]]s and [[Sea Devil]]s.
** No Future - [[The Monk]] and the [[Vardan]]s.
** Blood Harvest - [[Great Vampire]]s.
** First Frontier - [[The Master]].
** Toy Soldiers - [[Ogron]]s (cameo only)
** Head Games - [[Valeyard]] - (illusion only)
** Shakedown - [[Sontaran]]s and the [[Rutan Host]].
** GodEngine - [[Dalek]]s. (cameo only)
** The Dying Days -[[Ice Warrior]]s.
 
=== Adaptations ===
* ''[[Birthright (novel)|Birthright]]'' and ''[[Just War (novel)|Just War]]'' were adapted, without the Doctor, the rights to which character they did not have permission to use at the time, as the first [[Big Finish Bernice Summerfield Series|Bernice Summerfield productions]] from [[Big Finish Productions]].
* An adaptation of ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'' appeared in [[Series 3 (Doctor Who)|Series 3]] of ''Doctor Who''.
 
=== Major Links to the [[Virgin Missing Adventures]] ===
* A story strand originated in ''[[Blood Harvest]]'' continued into the first Missing Adventure ''[[Goth Opera]]'' in an effort to get readers to buy both books.
* ''[[Shakedown]]'' and ''[[Lords of the Storm]]'' both featured the [[Sontaran]]s in the same month.
* The Missing Adventure ''[[Cold Fusion]]'' featured both the [[Fifth Doctor]] and his companions with the Seventh Doctor and [[Roz Forrester|Roz]] and [[Chris Cwej]] from the New Adventures.
 
=== Production Notes ===
* ''[[So Vile a Sin]]'' was published out of sequence with the other books because of the delays. In story terms, however, it took place between ''[[Damaged Goods]]'' and ''[[Bad Therapy]]''. The death of a major character in that book was meant to be a surprise, but because of the production delay, that was spoiled, and the prologue started off with the funeral for that character. The delayed publication rendered it the final Doctor Who New Adventures novel to be issued.
 
== See also ==
* [[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures]]
* [[Time Lord (role playing book)]]
 
== External links ==
* [http://www.drwho-online.co.uk/guides/merchandise/books/virgin-na/ The Doctor Who Online Merchandise Guide - Virgin Books - The New Adventures]
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The Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures were a series of novels that featured Bernice Summerfield and her "supporting cast". They were published by Virgin Books following the loss of the license that allowed them to publish an original series of novels, the New Adventures series, which could legally use characters and concepts derived from Doctor Who. Though most featured Bernice herself, two, Deadfall and Dead Romance, centred on other characters.

The series began in in May 1997 and ended in October 1999. Big Finish Productions would later obtain the license to these characters for their own line of audios, novels and short fiction featuring Benny and her supporting cast.

The book series initially used the same cover designs as that for the later Doctor Who NA books, except with a newly commissioned New Adventures logo. A new cover design was introduced with Another Girl, Another Planet, which removed the NA identifier from the front cover and introduced a new title-lettering style.

Title Author Featuring Published
Oh No It Isn't! Paul Cornell Wolsey May 1997
Dragons' Wrath Justin Richards Irving Braxiatel June 1997
Beyond the Sun Matthew Jones Jason Kane, Emile Mars-Smith July 1997
Ship of Fools Dave Stone none August 1997
Down Lawrence Miles !X September 1997
Deadfall Gary Russell Chris Cwej October 1997
Ghost Devices Simon Bucher-Jones God, Clarence November 1997
Mean Streets Terrance Dicks Chris Cwej December 1997
Tempest Christopher Bulis none January 1998
Walking to Babylon Kate Orman none February 1998
Oblivion Dave Stone Jason Kane, Chris Cwej, Roz Forrester March 1998
The Medusa Effect Justin Richards Irving Braxiatel April 1998
Dry Pilgrimage Paul Leonard & Nick Walters none May 1998
The Sword of Forever Jim Mortimore none June 1998
Another Girl, Another Planet Martin Day & Len Beech none August 1998
Beige Planet Mars Lance Parkin & Mark Clapham none October 1998
Where Angels Fear Rebecca Levene & Simon Winstone Irving Braxiatel December 1998
The Mary-Sue Extrusion Dave Stone Jason Kane February 1999
Dead Romance Lawrence Miles Christine Summerfield (introduction), Chris Cwej April 1999
Tears of the Oracle Justin Richards Jason Kane, Irving Braxiatel June 1999
Return to the Fractured Planet Dave Stone Irving Braxiatel August 1999
The Joy Device Justin Richards none October 1999
Twilight of the Gods Mark Clapham &
Jon de Burgh Miller		 Jason Kane, Chris Cwej,
Clarence, Irving Braxiatel		 December 1999
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