Old Friends (anthology)
Publisher's Summary
Late 2562. Bernice Summerfield is 22 and enroute to the ruin of Earth. She's young, she's single, she's just got an MA in archaeology. There's a life of adventure in front of her.
And then she meets the half-human, half-lemur Ivo, whose life she'll completely knock sideways.
Late 2607. Professor Bernice Summerfield is... well she looks nearly 40, but it's difficult to tell what with all the time travel. She's on her way to a funeral, and to meet up with people she's not seen since her 20s.
Ex-husband / current-beau Jason is keen to go with her. Benny never talks about that period of her life - what she did to keep out of the war, where she travelled, how she survived, or who it was broke her heart.
She's run through all time and space to avoid this reunion. But the best-selling author of Down Among The Dead Men must finally uncover her own past.
Individual Stories
| Title | Author |
| The Ship of Painted Shadows | Marc Platt |
| Cheating the Reaper | Jonathan Clements |
| The Soul's Prism | Pete Kempshall |
Notes
The first and final novellas are contemporary with the other Bernice Summerfield stories, but Cheating the Reaper takes place before Bernice's time travelling adventures, in the same period as Genius Loci. These stories are unofficially known as the "Young Bernice Summerfield Adventures".
Timeline
- Old Friends occurs after: The Oracle of Delphi
- Old Friends occurs before: The Empire State
- The story Cheating the Reaper takes place after Genius Loci and before Love and War.
