Acts of Senseless Devotion single work   short story   science fiction  
Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Acts of Senseless Devotion
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'Benny awakens in hospital to learn that Doggles' history machine exploded, releasing a strange form of temporal radiation. Several people have been killed, Benny has been permanently blinded -- and Peter has been mortally injured and will be dead within days. Adrian ends his relationship with Bev to concentrate on his family, and the furious Bev prepares to pack up and leave the Collection, where everyone seems to idolise Benny when Bev has done so much more for them. But Benny contacts her and asks for her help: she needs to contact Avril Fenman and fetch one of the sorceress' mind-swapping crystals so she can trade places with Peter. When Jason arrives at the hospital, Bev is just leaving, and when Jason learns what Benny has done, he realises why she asked Bev. She claims that Bev is the only person who disliked her enough to let her trade her life for Peter's, but Jason realises that Benny knew that Avril had been trapped in a man's body for too long -- and that it wasn't really Bev whom Jason bumped into in the corridor outside. Furious, Jason storms out of the hospital room to take care of matters, but when Benny tries to pick up the crystal, she discovers too late that Adrian had been nearby, listening -- and he's already taken the crystal to Peter's room. Benny is too late to stop Adrian from sacrificing his life for his son's, and she vows to track down Avril and make her pay for what she's done to them all -- but she knows that it's her own fault for trying to take on the responsibility herself.'

Source: drwhoguide.com (http://www.drwhoguide.com/bs_n14.htm). Sighted 27/5/11.

Notes

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

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    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
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