- Beyond the Sun (Bernice Summerfield)
Doctorwhobook
title=Beyond the Sun
series=The New Adventures
number=3
featuring=Bernice Summerfield
writer=Matt Jones
publisher=Virgin Books
isbn= ISBN 0-426-20511-1
set_between=
pages=
date=July 1997
preceding=Dragons' Wrath
following=Ship of Fools|"Beyond the Sun" is a novel by Matt Jones featuring the fictional archaeologist
Bernice Summerfield , his second for theVirgin New Adventures . The New Adventures were a spin-off from the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who ". The book is, in part, a coming-of-age story for the character of Emile as he comes to terms with his sexuality. Emile would later re-appear in subsequent New Adventures.Plot
Bernice Summerfield takes her two students Emile and Tameka on a field trip, but when her ex-husband Jason turns up, they all become embroiled with the dangerous super-weapon of a lost civilisation.
Audio adaptation
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title=Beyond the Sun
series="Bernice Summerfield "
number=2
featuring=Bernice Summerfield
writer=Matt Jones
director=Gary Russell
producer=Gary Russell
executive_producer=Jason Haigh-Ellery
production_code=
set_between="Oh No It Isn't!" and "Walking to Babylon"
length=1 hr 40 mins
date=September 1998|In 1998, "Beyond the Sun" was adapted by its author forBig Finish Productions into an audio drama starringLisa Bowerman as Bernice. The audio drama also features actorAnneke Wills , better known for playing Polly andSophie Aldred who played Ace, both in the "Doctor Who" television series.Cast
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Bernice Summerfield —Lisa Bowerman
*Miranda —Sophie Aldred
*Doctor Kitzinger —Anneke Wills
*Jason Kane —Stephen Fewell
*Tameka Vito — Jane Burke
*Emile Mars-Smith — Lewis Davis
*Scott —Nicholas Pegg
*Leon —Barnaby Edwards Trivia
#The title "Beyond the Sun" is an
in-joke ; at the time the novel was written, it had long been variously attributed as a working title to any one of three early "Doctor Who" serials from the first series in 1963, although it was never used on-screen.External links
"Beyond the Sun" New Adventure
*Doctor Who RG | id=who_na64 | title=Beyond the Sun
* [http://members.lycos.co.uk/cloisterlibrary/beyo.htm The Cloister Library - "Beyond the Sun"]"Beyond the Sun" New Adventure reviews
*DWRG | id=beyo | title=Beyond the Sun
*OG review | id=bennyv-3 | title=Beyond the Sun"Beyond the Sun" audio adaptation
*Doctor Who RG | id=benny02 | title=Beyond the Sun | description=audio
"Beyond the Sun" audio adaptation reviews
*DWRG | id=beyoa | title=Beyond the Sun | description=audio
*OG review | id=bennya-2 | title=Beyond the Sun | description=audio
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