Virgin 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. Several novels were adapted for audio by Big Finish alongside several Doctor Who New Adventures novel adaptations that were altered to omit the Doctor and focus on Summerfield.

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.

Though not considered part of the main series, the short story collection Decalog 5: Wonders includes the first Bernice Summerfield short story, The Judgement of Solomon by Lawrence Miles. Although past Virgin Decalogs had some direct connection to Doctor Who, by the time Decalog 5 was published Virgin no longer had the rights to publish stories featuring the Doctor; other than the sole Summerfield story, the rest of the stories have no evident connection to either the Doctor Who or Summerfield continuity.

Title Author Featuring Published
Oh No It Isn't! Paul Cornell Wolsey 1 May, 1997
Dragons' Wrath Justin Richards Irving Braxiatel 2 June, 1997
Beyond the Sun Matthew Jones Jason Kane, Emile Mars-Smith 3 July, 1997
Ship of Fools Dave Stone none 21 August, 1997
Down Lawrence Miles !X 2 September, 1997
Deadfall Gary Russell Chris Cwej 2 October, 1997
Ghost Devices Simon Bucher-Jones God, Clarence 3 November, 1997
Mean Streets Terrance Dicks Chris Cwej 1 December, 1997
Tempest Christopher Bulis none 2 January, 1998
Walking to Babylon Kate Orman none 3 February, 1998
Oblivion Dave Stone Jason Kane, Chris Cwej, Roz Forrester 2 March, 1998
The Medusa Effect Justin Richards Irving Braxiatel 2 April, 1998
Dry Pilgrimage Paul Leonard & Nick Walters none 3 May, 1998
The Sword of Forever Jim Mortimore none 2 June, 1998
Another Girl, Another Planet Martin Day & Len Beech none 20 August, 1998
Beige Planet Mars Lance Parkin & Mark Clapham none 15 October, 1998
Where Angels Fear Rebecca Levene & Simon Winstone Irving Braxiatel 2 December, 1998
The Mary-Sue Extrusion Dave Stone Jason Kane 1 February, 1999
Dead Romance Lawrence Miles Christine Summerfield, Chris Cwej 1 March, 1999
Tears of the Oracle Justin Richards Jason Kane, Irving Braxiatel 2 June, 1999
Return to the Fractured Planet Dave Stone Irving Braxiatel 2 August, 1999
The Joy Device Justin Richards none 1 October, 1999
Twilight of the Gods Mark Clapham &
Jon de Burgh Miller
Jason Kane, Chris Cwej,
Clarence, Irving Braxiatel
2 December, 1999