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|main character = [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] | |main character = [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] | ||
|featuring = [[Ruth]], [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]], [[Irving Braxiatel|Irving]] | |featuring = [[Ruth]], [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]], [[Irving Braxiatel|Irving]] | ||
|enemy = | |enemy = [[Neon Tsara|Neon]] | ||
|setting = [[Star Seasons]] and [[Bubastis]], [[2610s]] | |setting = [[Star Seasons]] and [[Bubastis]], [[2610s]] | ||
|writer = [[Xanna Eve Chown]] | |writer = [[Xanna Eve Chown]] | ||
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|prev = The Weather on Versimmon (novel) | |prev = The Weather on Versimmon (novel) | ||
|next = Filthy Lucre (novel) | |next = Filthy Lucre (novel) | ||
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''''' | '''''The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis''''' was the eleventh full-length ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' novel published by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[Xanna Eve Chown]]. | ||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
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Benny and Ruth are bitten by insects and sleep for six hours. They are found by Jack, who charms Neon when she enters the room and accuses Benny and Ruth of being [[Friends of Stone]]. She tells them that Mina went on a solo expedition into the [[swamp]]s and [[Allie (The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis)|Allie]] informs them that the Dean has been killed by the Bal. Benny makes her way to the Cats, leaving Ruth, increasingly overwhelmed by the information in her head, with Jack. She meets [[Grey Line]], a Bal [[ambassador]] investigating the Dean's death, and speaks with him about the Cats, but she is soon captured by three servers who shoot Grey Line non-fatally. | Benny and Ruth are bitten by insects and sleep for six hours. They are found by Jack, who charms Neon when she enters the room and accuses Benny and Ruth of being [[Friends of Stone]]. She tells them that Mina went on a solo expedition into the [[swamp]]s and [[Allie (The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis)|Allie]] informs them that the Dean has been killed by the Bal. Benny makes her way to the Cats, leaving Ruth, increasingly overwhelmed by the information in her head, with Jack. She meets [[Grey Line]], a Bal [[ambassador]] investigating the Dean's death, and speaks with him about the Cats, but she is soon captured by three servers who shoot Grey Line non-fatally. | ||
Jack decides to hide the Future Retrieval Device in a Bal [[village]]. On the way, he meets [[Rufus (The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis)|Rufus]], the boy who found the Dean's body, and learns that the Dean was touching Grey Line's [[antenna]]e and tripped, causing himself to be pierced by the spikes that extended from Grey Line's body due to the unpleasant stimulation he had caused. Jack heads to the village, throws the Device down a Bal [[toilet]] and asks about Mina's whereabouts. | |||
Ruth learns from Allie that the Dean is rumoured to have been spending Star Seasons' [[money]] on a secret project and is questioned by the servers about the theft of the Future Retrieval Device, which transmitted a [[distress call]] when Jack tried to open it. Mina returns to the compound covered in insect bites and Benny and Grey Line are brought back by the servers. Mina is turning blue after eating insects to get high, which Grey Line warns will cause a [[plague]]; panicking, he takes Benny hostage and sabotages the ''Irverfield'' before heading back to the Bal village with her. Jack arrives, having been called by Ruth when Mina was found, and he is arrested by the servers for theft. | |||
''to be | Neon has Ruth detained with Jack when they voice their opposition to her use of [[Tsara bomb]]s to enter the Cats and they are locked in a storeroom, where Jack admits to having stolen the Device. They escape using a [[hydrocan-opener]] and find Benny suspended in a [[cage]] in the abandoned village, made to write out the Bal's extensive Rule Book as penance for Mina's [[crime]]. The trio head to the Cats and watch Neon blast her way inside the one that she believes has twenty-three fingers, although Benny counts only the usual twenty-two. The Cat is destroyed and [[skeleton]]s fall out, which Ruth identifies as the [[Nobal]], [[cat]] people who sealed themselves inside the statue after eating a new strain of bug which drove them insane. | ||
The Bal arrive and easily dispose of the servers. Grey Line presents the Device, which he mistook for a [[bomb]], and his people come to believe that he has the plague, but Benny realises that the Bal poem supposedly describing the alleged plague is actually a description of the Bal, written by the Nobal. Jack swallows the Device to prove that it is not a bomb and Grey Line bans mammals from returning to Bubastis, but tells Benny that they will investigate the bones and potentially replace their year of [[crochet]] with a year of Bubastian [[history]], meaning that each Bal will spend a year studying the past. | |||
Irivng's shuttle is repaired by a group of students and Benny, Ruth and Jack return to Star Seasons with Neon and the students. They find Bil held at gunpoint by Gregory, who is dismayed to learn that he has failed to prevent Neon from destroying the Cat. The two of them start [[kiss]]ing and Bil locks them in his office. He is delighted to receive the book of poetry that Benny hastily wrote on the journey and tell her that the Experimental Library will be abandoned due to it leading to the end of proper research and its potential to be abused; according to [[Bexx Branagh]]'s article, the Dean built it in order to get his hands on [[lottery]] numbers. | |||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
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* [[Danni (The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis)|Danni]] | * [[Danni (The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis)|Danni]] | ||
* [[Neon Tsara]] | * [[Neon Tsara]] | ||
* [[Dean (The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis)|The Dean]] | |||
* [[Allie (The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis)|Allie]] | * [[Allie (The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis)|Allie]] | ||
* [[Haven (The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis)|Haven]] | * [[Haven (The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis)|Haven]] | ||
* [[Rufus (The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis)|Rufus]] | * [[Rufus (The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis)|Rufus]] | ||
* [[Blue Shimmer]] | * [[Blue Shimmer]] | ||
* [[Green Tinge]] | |||
* [[Mina Gloap]] | * [[Mina Gloap]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Jenny (The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis)|Jenny]] | ||
* [[Dave (The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis)|Dave]] | |||
* [[Light Pink]] | |||
* [[Hint of Purple]] | |||
* [[Shiny Rose]] | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
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* [[Bill Drummond]] was an [[Earth]] [[philosopher]]. | * [[Bill Drummond]] was an [[Earth]] [[philosopher]]. | ||
* [[Eris (mythology)|Eris]] is a goddess of [[Discord]] and [[Chaos]]. | * [[Eris (mythology)|Eris]] is a goddess of [[Discord]] and [[Chaos]]. | ||
* [[Neon Tsara's mother|Neon's mother]] was twenty-three when she met [[Neon Tsara's father|Neon's father]]. | * [[Neon Tsara's mother|Neon's mother]] was twenty-three when she met [[Neon Tsara's father|Neon's father]]. Her father invented the [[Tsara bomb]], ostensibly for use on demolition sites, which was subsequently outlawed. | ||
* [[Neon Tsara's grandfather|Neon's grandfather]] owns twenty-three [[moon]]s. | * [[Neon Tsara's grandfather|Neon's grandfather]] owns twenty-three [[moon]]s. | ||
* Neon tells a story of when she was looking for a [[temple]] in the [[jungle]]s of [[Sarspun]]. | * Neon tells a story of when she was looking for a [[temple]] in the [[jungle]]s of [[Sarspun]]. | ||
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* Jack mentions [[xenophobia]] and [[erythrophobia]]. | * Jack mentions [[xenophobia]] and [[erythrophobia]]. | ||
* [[Blue Shimmer]]'s name in [[Bal (language)|Bal]] is [[Vervafellil]]. | * [[Blue Shimmer]]'s name in [[Bal (language)|Bal]] is [[Vervafellil]]. | ||
* [[Andrea (The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis)|Andrea]] is a Friend of Stone. | |||
* [[Eugenie (planet)|Eugenie]] is a planet covered in [[mist]] and inhabited by the [[Eugeniean]]s, who resemble vaporous [[sheep]]. Bil launches Benny's book, ''[[Orisons in Two Languages]]'', there. | |||
* [[Escutcheon (planet)|Escutcheon]] is a university planet where Bil celebrates the completion of his [[thesis]], ''[[Linguistic and Semantic Indeterminacy in the Homonous Languages of Bubastis and Eugenie - A Comparative Study]]''. He sold its publishing and [[televid]] rights, leading to the publishing of ''[[One word, two meanings: The linguistic phenomenon that will blow your brain!]]'' and the creation of the spin-off show ''[[I say potato, you say potato]]''. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* Irving now has [[Irverfield|a shuttle]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Everybody Loves Irving (audio story)|Everybody Loves Irving]]'') | * Irving now has [[Irverfield|a shuttle]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Everybody Loves Irving (audio story)|Everybody Loves Irving]]'') | ||
* Benny mentions once having [[Wolsey|a cat]] as a pet. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'', etc.) | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
