Genius Loci

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Contents 1 Publisher's Summary 2 Characters 3 References 4 Notes 5 Continuity 6 Timeline 7 External Links

[edit] Publisher's Summary

One day she will bring down empires and decide the fate of the universe. One day she will be feared by the creatures of evil and revered wherever people have had just a little bit too much to drink.

But all that is yet to come...

Right now Bernice Summerfield is 21 years old and living hand to mouth and drink to drink. Offered a job beyond her qualifications she is lured out to the backwater planet of Jaiwan where nothing has ever happened -- ever.

There she joins a disparate team of archaeologists who have just discovered that the planet of Jaiwan may have been just a tad more interesting than people thought. This could be Benny's big break and her ticket to a proper career in archaeology.

That's if archaeology doesn't kill her first.

[edit] Characters

Bernice Summerfield

• Is 21 when she arrives on Jaiwan.
• Gets her foot ripped off by a pot fish spider, she gets a new one on her 22nd birthday.
• Is nearly drowned.
• Shot in the back (she had a lined protective jacket on).
• Escapes a nuclear blast.
• Is on the run from Spacefleet
• Is known to the spiders (after fist contact) by the name "Fools Rush In".
• Kills Lola: this is the first time she's killed anyone.
• In January, 2562 Benny decides to head for Earth.

Professor Mariela Ankola

• Known as the Professor by everyone.
• Gives Bernice a copy of her personal database, which included a lot of files on 20th century Earth.

Pilar Hidalgo

• From the planet Shantak

Simone Agani

Heidi Maputo

Chayana Lopeti

• Likes to be known as "Chay".

Shawnee

Lola

[edit] References

• Benny dropped out of Spacefleet.

• There is a draft in place.

• Continuous Active Recording units are used at the archaeological digs.
• The Professor encountered lethal toxins while excavating an industrial site on the planet Cray.
• Martians are known as some of the best archaeologists in the galaxy.
• Archaeology for Primates was published by Martian University Press in 2534.
• Krill is part CO2 scrubber, part additional protein source. Benny 'slings' it (and more notably knows how to make it taste palatable) to travel on spacecraft for free.
• TMF (Too Mad to Fight) is a suffix pertaining to the draft, meaning psychologically unfit for duty, Bernice has a fake one on her passport.
• Vodka is Russia's greatest contribution to intersteallar travel (in Bernice's opinion).
• Pinky and Perky were two artificial intelligences, one built the railways (Perky) and the roads and town plans (Pinky) but they fell in love and started to share programming.
• Nuclear dampeners create a field inhibiting chain reactions.
• Nuclear blasts have some sort of effect on hyperspace.
• Fulcrum is a VTOL capable troop carrier.
• The planet Heaven is becoming a popular planet to be buried on, but the Professor has a Last Ticket for burial on Earth in the Rift Valley, Tanzania.
• Benny calls her group of archaeologists Combat Archeaologists.
• A team is sent to discuss the ramifications of the spiders being sapient. It is made up of a human, an Earth Reptile and a Martian.
• Benny still calls Draconians 'Dragons'.
• There is a Kwik-Kurry at General Layfeyette's army base.
• Earth Reptiles never forgave humans for usurping them and taking over their planet.

[edit] Notes

• This is the first novel which sees Benny at the beginning of her career.
• At the end of the book it says To be continued in Bernice Summerfield: Old Friends.

[edit] Continuity

• Draconians (and the Draconian War) were first mentioned/appeared in DW: Frontier in Space.
• Earth Reptiles first appeared in DW: Doctor Who and the Silurians and The Sea Devils.
• The first published novel that Bernice Summerfield appeared in was NA: Love and War.

[edit] Timeline

• Genius Loci occurs after: (some of) BFBS: Missing Adventures
• Genius Loci occurs before: NA: Love and War

[edit] External Links

• Big Finish's Genius Loci page
• Doctor Who Reference Guide - Detailed Synopsis: Genius Loci