Professor Bernice Summerfield series - publisher   short story   science fiction  
Alternative title: The Bernice Summerfield Adventures
Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 Professor Bernice Summerfield
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Bernice Summerfield was originally introduced in the New Adventures series of Doctor Who spin-off novels, as a companion for the Seventh Doctor. When Virgin's license to publish Doctor Who fiction was not renewed by the BBC in 1997, Virgin decided to continue the series as Bernice Summerfield books, without any mention of the Doctor or any Doctor Who branding.

Big Finish Productions took over the production of Bernice Summerfield stories after the closure of Virgin's fiction branch in 1999.

Notes

  • Doctor Who spin-off works. The Doctor is not a character.

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y separately published work icon The Dead Men Diaries : A Short Story Collection Paul Cornell (editor), Maidenhead : Big Finish Productions , 2000 Z1780297 2000 anthology short story science fiction

'Who but Professor Bernice Summerfield, interstellar archaeologist, raconteur, boozer and wit, would get other people to write her autobiography -- albeit under threat of death from two bounty hunters sent by a publisher far too concerned about little things like deadlines?

These stories are an ideal introduction to the life of Bernice Summerfield: falling off cliffs, getting sacrificed to orange pygmies, saving the universe and trying to buy a new frock.

Cliffhanging escapes! Adventure on distant planets! Scones for tea!'

Source: drwhoguide.com (http://www.drwhoguide.com/bs_n01.htm). Sighted: 19/5/11.

Maidenhead : Big Finish Productions , 2000
y separately published work icon A Life of Surprises : A Short-Story Anthology Paul Cornell (editor), Maidenhead : Big Finish Productions , 2002 Z1780267 2002 anthology short story science fiction

'Professor Bernice Summerfield, interstellar archaeologist, adventurer, romantic and drinker, has had either one very big life or a number of only slightly smaller ones.

'This anthology contains stories from many times and places across her long career, ranging from the starkly dramatic, through the thrilling, to the hilarious.'

Source: drwhoguide.com (http://www.drwhoguide.com/bs_n07.htm). Sighted: 19/5/11

Maidenhead : Big Finish Productions , 2002
y separately published work icon Life During Wartime : A Short-Story Anthology Paul Cornell (editor), Maidenhead : Big Finish Productions , 2003 Z1780188 2003 anthology short story science fiction

'The Braxiatel Collection has been occupied by the Fifth Axis. This shouldn't have happened: Brax picked this place to be safe, and surely he knows the history of time and space?

Bernice and her friends find themselves living under a military government. Bev joins the resistance. Adrian is thrown into a prison camp for aliens. Jason finds a comfortable little niche for himself in the new administration. Bernice's half-human son, Peter, is now under threat every minute of every day.

Bernice finds herself caught in the middle of the occupation, her old friends, and her desperate need to protect her child.'

Source: Big Finish website (http://www.bigfinish.com/Bernice-Summerfield-Life-During-Wartime). Sighted: 19/5/11

Maidenhead : Big Finish Productions , 2003
y separately published work icon A Life Worth Living : A Short-Story Anthology Simon Guerrier (editor), Maidenhead : Big Finish Productions , 2004 Z1780183 2004 anthology short story science fiction

'Fourteen brand-new short stories about Bernice Summerfield (some-time adventurer, even-less-time academic) and her extended "family". There's Jason Kane (ex-husband, ex-buccaneer, ex-author of xeno-porn) and Irving Braxiatel (employer, Renaissance Man, sneaky devil). There's Bev, Adrian, Ms Jones and Peter. There's Hass, the new gardener, just arrived from Mars. There's the invasion of new students. And, inevitably, there's the mysteries, murders, mayhem and major weirdness that happen whenever Benny gets out of bed.

The war is over. The Braxiatel Collection is back to normal. Better than that, people are all making more of an effort ­ to rebuild, to get on, to re-establish the Collection at the forefront of academic excellence. Benny and Jason are back together. Life is good.

It's not going to last, is it?

Soon Benny is up to her eyeballs in strange deaths, sinister cults, peculiar love affairs and a Collection full of people who haven't yet stopped fighting.'

Source: Big Finish website (http://www.bigfinish.com/Bernice-Summerfield-A-Life-Worth-Living). Sighted: 19/5/11

Maidenhead : Big Finish Productions , 2004
y separately published work icon Old Friends Maidenhead : Big Finish Productions , 2004 Z1782121 2004 selected work novella science fiction

'Late 2562. Bernice Summerfield is 22 and en route 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.'

Source: drwhoguide.com (http://www.drwhoguide.com/bs_n17.htm). Sighted 27/5/11

Maidenhead : Big Finish Productions , 2004
y separately published work icon Something Changed : A Short-Story Anthology Simon Guerrier (editor), Maidenhead : Big Finish Productions , 2006 Z1780207 2006 anthology short story science fiction

'Everybody dies.

'There's a fresh grave on planetoid KS-159, but only Bernice Summerfield seems to have noticed. Her friends on the Braxiatel Collection are too busy with their own affairs to see how distraught she is, how keenly she feels this loss.

'There's no time to grieve. Life must carry on, different and strange as it may be. Benny has a son and a bloke to look after, and a feud with Bev Tarrant to keep up. And she's also got dumped with a new assignment, babysitting some daft experiment.

'Doggles claims his "history machine" will change everything. And the worst thing is that he's right.'

Source: drwhoguide.com (http://www.drwhoguide.com/bs_n14.htm). Sighted: 19/5/11

Maidenhead : Big Finish Productions , 2006
y separately published work icon Collected Works Nick Wallace (editor), Maidenhead : Big Finish Productions , 2006 Z1780228 2006 anthology short story science fiction

'"It might be your name on the deeds, but you don't belong here any more. This is our home, our collection."

'The Braxiatel Collection. It's a museum, art gallery and academic institute. A home for renowned archaeologists, runaway art thieves and galactic waifs and strays. It's been a private playground and the battlefield in the fight against tyranny. And now things are changing again.

'With the Collection's founder missing, it's up to those left behind to make this place their own. Amidst the chaos of visitors from the far future, dark secrets, old friends and new enemies, Bernice Summerfield must do whatever's necessary to keep the doors open and her family safe. Yet through it all, there's one truth she cannot escape. Braxiatel is gone. And nature abhors a vacuum.'

Source: drwhoguide.com (http://www.drwhoguide.com/bs_n16.htm). Sighted: 19/5/11

Maidenhead : Big Finish Productions , 2006
y separately published work icon Nobody's Children Maidenhead : Big Finish Productions , 2007 Z1780317 2007 selected work novella science fiction Maidenhead : Big Finish Productions , 2007
y separately published work icon Present Danger Eddie Robson (editor), Maidenhead : Big Finish Productions , 2010 Z1780328 2010 anthology short story science fiction

'When the entire galaxy finds itself under attack from the Deindum - a highly advanced but aggressive and paranoid race from the future - Bernice Summerfield and her various friends and colleagues are scattered across space, doing what they can for the war effort.

Bernice makes her way home before heading back into history, searching for knowledge about their adversary and (hopefully) a weapon which might help the cause. Braxiatel, leading a coalition of civilised worlds against the attack, has cause to question his methods. An exhausted Bev runs the Braxiatel Collection as a refugee centre, fearful of an imminent attack. Adrian and Doggles must overcome their shared history and work together, whilst Hass embarks on a dangerous journey through the galaxy's war zones to the heart of the Deindum's new empire.

But will it be enough? What can they do against one of the most daunting enemies that they have ever faced?'

Source: Big Finish Productions (http://www.bigfinish.com/Bernice-Summerfield-Present-Danger). Sighted 19/5/11

Maidenhead : Big Finish Productions , 2010

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