Twilight of the Gods (BNA novel)

Twilight of the Gods
Main character(s):	Benny
Featuring:	Jason, Clarence, Chris
Main enemy:	Tehke, Ferutu
Main setting:	KS-159, 2596 Dellah, 2596
Key crew
Publisher:	Virgin Books
Writer:	Mark Clapham & Jon de Burgh Miller
Release details
Release number:	23
Release date:	2 December 1999
Format:	Paperback Book, 242 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-20536-7
Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures
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Twilight of the Gods was the twenty-third and final Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures novel. It was written by Mark Clapham and Jon de Burgh Miller.

Publisher's summary

"Oh, why not," Benny said. "After all, I've died before and it never did me any harm then."

The once peaceful planet of Dellah lies in ruins. The god-like beings who infest the place have lured the inhabitants into holy wars, suicide cults and genocidal pogroms. As they run out of victims, the deities plan to invade more planets — and other races are preparing pre-emptive strikes to stop them. Humankind's small sector of the galaxy is about to become the battleground of leviathans.

There is just one hope. Professor Bernice Summerfield is, surprisingly, alive and well. And she's coming home. Bernice and her friends are determined to dispose of the gods once and for all — at any cost.

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Bernice Summerfield
• Jason Kane
• Clarence
• Chris Cwej
• Irving Braxiatel
• Emile Mars-Smith
• Tehke

References

Colleges and universities

• Benny ends up working at the University of Vremnya.

Individuals

• Benny and Chris have a toast to dead friends: Chris - to Roz Forrester, Bernice - to Clarence.
• Bernice receives a message from Christine Summerfield.
• Wolsey is with Bernice as she settles in at her new university.
• Emile Mars-Smith is working for Braxiatel.
• Jason Kane dreams of electric gerbils (possibly a reference to the Pakhar) and is also captured and held prisoner by the Ferutu.

Planets

• Benny mentions her trip to Heaven.

Species

• The Ferutu are revealed to be the Dellahn gods.
• The Time Lords planned to launch a Doomsday Probe and wipe out Dellah and everything in that corner of the galaxy to remove the god problem.
• According to Braxiatel, his "former people" (the Time Lords) have retreated into their bottle universe, and the People are locked inside their sphere.

Spacecraft

• Braxiatel provides the ship Benny and the others use to dimension hop the planet Dellah.

Time travel

• Bernice has about five years wiped off her age by a temporal blast (aging her backwards along her temporal timeline).
• Chris Cwej is hit by a Ferutu temporal blast and aged backward along his timeline to age thirteen.
• Clarence is killed; the Ferutu age him backward along his timeline, back beyond when he was the !C-Mel, and backwards further into non-existence.

Notes

• This is the final Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures. Peter Darvill-Evans notes in an afterword that it would be his last as editor (and might be the last for a while).
• The line is continued by Big Finish Productions as part of their Bernice Summerfield range.

Continuity

• The Ferutu first appeared in PROSE: Cold Fusion.
• Benny visited Heaven and met the Doctor in PROSE: Love and War.
• Christine Summerfield got out into the "real" universe in PROSE: Dead Romance.
• Tehke was previously mentioned in PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5.
• One of Tehke's other forms is that of Urmungstandra. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5)

External links

• Twilight of the Gods at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: Twilight of the Gods at The Whoniverse