The Two Jasons (novel)
The Two Jasons was the ninth full length novel published by Big Finish Productions as part of their Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series. It was written by Dave Stone.
Publisher's summary
"Oh bloody hell," she snapped. "Listen: me no wantee good time jig-jig all same, okay?"
When Bernice Summerfield first met Jason Kane, she failed to spot his many fine qualities and assets. Over the course of many subsequent adventures, including marriage and divorce, she continued not to see them...
"You're not Jason," she said. "Who the hell are you?"
When Bernice Summerfield first met Jason Kane 2, he was disguised as a critic of the work of Jason Kane. Benny saw through his false moustache and literary pretensions, and had him and his other clones expelled into space, there to make their own fortunes. One Jason Kane was, she felt, rather more than enough.
Now something is astir in the universe, a plot that threatens Benny and all she holds dear. If she stands any chance at all, she needs all the Jason Kanes she can get...
Plot
Receiving a call for help from Jason and believing that she has tracked him with her psionix, Mira travels to a space station in the Catan Nebula and instead finds two of his three short-term clones created as part of a scam. The third died after attempting to access memories which the original had not granted to them and the surviving clones, 2-Jason and 3-Jason, have gone ahead with purchasing permanent bodies for themselves, although 3-Jason's mind has been deliberately frozen at the mental age of eleven. The Church of the Righteously Ascended Pure, who have religious objections to genetic manipulation, attack the station and the Jasons escape with Mira to the shuttle bay.
3-Jason collapses due to a rush of memories of stabbing his father, going to a remand centre where he attacked a gay man and physically abusing his girlfriend before going to the women's shelter that she had moved to and beating her until she miscarried their child. After flying to Mira's ship in her shuttle, Mira and 2-Jason help him realise that these memories contradict the fact that Jason left Earth and that they must have been implanted with a memory bomb to make him a compliant slave. Mira gives him her data-pad for him to write down his memories of meeting Benny, believing that it will keep the false memories at bay. At 2-Jason's request, she leaves the two Jasons in the Proximan Chain before heading to the Braxiatel Collection to help the original Jason.
Whilst 3-Jason writes down his memories in a storage locker, 2-Jason meets Ophelia Cholmoldly-Shrike, a fan of Jason's books, and goes home with her. He is forced to flee, however, when her gangster father returns home and, finding his daughter in a leather ensemble with a riding crop, attempts to kill him.
to be completed
Characters
References
- Jason read war comics about Union Jack Jackson fighting the Japanese.
- Jason had a Sega games console.
- Jason receives a wave from an arachnid woman whom he believes would purée his internal organs with gastric acids before sucking them out through his urethra.
- Jason can speak Galactic Standard Basic.
- The Church of the Righteously Ascended Pure believe that the human genome is the ultimate expression of God's perfection. Any attempt to modify them is considered desecration.
- The Jasons have forgotten the offside rule and the taste of Stilton.
- 3-Jason remembers "some bloody cat or other" and "a little man with a plan and a panama hat".
Notes
- This book reprints the short story Sex Secrets of the Robot Replicants by Philip Purser-Hallard.
- This story was released as an audiobook on 7 October 2021, read by Lisa Bowerman. The cover art for the audiobook was created by David Burgess.
Continuity
- Takes place concurrently with The End of the World and The Final Amendment.
External links
- Official The Two Jasons page at bigfinish.com
- The Two Jasons at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
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