Tears of the Oracle (novel)

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Tears of the Oracle (novel) is the twentieth Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures novel, and a return to the "main narrative" after the two previous novels which broke from advancing the main narrative. This novel sees a return or Irving Braxiatel, Clarence and Chris Cwej.

Publisher's summary

'Benny, you're ill. Let us help you. We want to help you. Really we do. This paranoia. These delusions. What you've done - it's driven you insane. Nobody wants to hurt you. We're your friends.'

On Dellah, the shattered former home of Bernice Summerfield, only the Advanced Research centre survives - the last remnant of the once famous university. But it's under siege from fanatical groups of religious inquisitors, searching for new converts or dangerous heretics.

Benny would have to be mad to go back.

Jason Kane, Bernice's one-time husband and all-time opportunist, has found the ancient remains of the Oracle of the Lost on an obscure planetoid known only as KS-159. Or so he says.

Benny would have to be mad to believe him.

The mysterious Irving Braxiatel is looking for somewhere quiet to house his huge collection of... everything.

Benny would have to be mad to suggest KS-159.

The Oracle of the Lost, legend says, can answer any question. But the cryptic answers she gives are never helpful, and often dangerous.

Benny would have to be mad to reawaken her. Or ask a question. Or believe the answer.

Plot

to be added

Characters

References

Biology

  • Benny thinks it was her Mary-Sue that gave her the brain tumour.

Groups

Individuals

  • Bernice Summerfield is diagnosed with a brain tumour.
  • Irving Braxiatel thinks of Bernice as family.
  • Across pages 166 - 167 is a brief (yet detailed) description of Braxiatel's time prior to leaving Gallifrey, there is also the statement that the Doctor is Braxiatel's brother.
  • The Oracle reveals that Clarence was once !C-Mel.
  • Chris Cwej (following his exposure to radiation in the universe in a bottle) regenerates, not however into a killing machine, but into a short (he's now Benny's height), stocky and mellow voiced man.
  • A Time Lord in a monk's robe assists Chris through his regeneration. ("We can give the process a small push" [1]. It could be Cho Je given the similarity to he said when he assisted the Third Doctor's regeneration)
  • As he's regenerating he mentions body beppling.

Locations

Species

Time travel

Titles and offices

Notes

Continuity

  • Braxiatel uses a communication cube to contact his people for assistance in the same way the Second Doctor does in DW: The War Games.
  • Chris was exposed to the lethal dose of radiation in BNA: Dead Romance.
  • Benny got a Mary-Sue in BNA: The Mary-Sue Extrusion.
  • EDA: Demontage features the Vega Station.
  • There is a brief revisit to Benny's wedding in NA: Happy Endings.
  • !C-Mel (the ship Clarence once was) first appeared in NA: The Also People.
  • When discussing his imminent regeneration of Chris Cwej, the Time Lord mentions Chris had a boddy bepple to appear as a giant teddy bear in NA: Original Sin.
  • Skutloid, Drexton and Garshal all first appeared in BNA: The Medusa Effect.
  • Emilia Winston first appeared in BNA: Dragons' Wrath. This was also the novel in which Braxiatel worked out Joseph wasn't an 'ordinary' porter...and neglected to tell anyone.

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Tears of the Oracle, page 200
  2. ↑ REF: I, Who 2
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