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Bernice Summerfield: Virgin New Adventures #15
Another Girl, Another Planet
Immersed in political scandals, gun-running and a centuries-old love affair that ended in disaster and disgrace, Bernice must discover a terrible truth or jeopardize the future of an entire planet.
245 pages, Paperback
First published August 20, 1998
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Martin Day
43 books13 followersMartin Day is a screenwriter and novelist best known for his work on various spin-offs related to the BBC Television series Doctor Who, and many episodes of the daytime soaps Doctors and Family Affairs.
Day's first published fiction was the novel The Menagerie in 1995, published by Virgin Publishing as part of their Doctor Who Missing Adventures series. Following the withdrawal of Virgin's licence to produce Doctor Who novels, Day moved to BBC Books, who published the novel The Devil Goblins from Neptune in 1997. The novel (co-written with Keith Topping) was the first of BBC Books' Past Doctor Adventures series, and was quickly followed by The Hollow Men in 1998 - again written with Topping. 1998 also saw the publication of Another Girl, Another Planet by Virgin Publishing. Co-written with Steve Bowkett (under the pseudonym Len Beech), this was one of the first books in Virgin's line of Bernice Summerfield novels.
Following these novels, Day returned to solo writing, and to the Past Doctor Adventures range in 2001 with the novel Bunker Soldiers. This was followed in 2004 by the novel The Sleep of Reason, one of the final Eighth Doctor Adventures to be published and perhaps his most popular novel. Between 2000 and 2001 Day wrote nine episodes for Five's Family Affairs, and in 2005 he started writing for BBC One's Doctors. In 2008 he was lead writer on Crisis Control, a new series for CBBC; Day storylined all thirteen episodes.
As well as writing fiction, Day has also written several unofficial guide books to television series such as The X Files, Star Trek: The Next Generation and The Avengers. These were published by Virgin, and co-written with Keith Topping and (with the exception of Shut It!, a guide to The Sweeney and The Professionals) Paul Cornell. Cornell, Day and Topping also wrote the extremely popular Doctor Who Discontinuity Guide, published by Virgin in 1995 as a light-hearted guide to the mistakes and incongruities of the television series. The first book written by Cornell, Day and Topping was Classic British TV, which was released by Guinness Publishing in 1993 and 1996.
In recent years Day has continued his work on Doctor Who, with the play No Man's Land for Big Finish Productions' audio adventures range, the bestselling novel Wooden Heart for the BBC's range of New Series Adventures, and comic strips for Doctor Who Adventures. The Jade Pyramid, an original Doctor Who audiobook for the eleventh Doctor,and a novelisation of an episode of Merlin,are both due for release in 2010.
Day's first published fiction was the novel The Menagerie in 1995, published by Virgin Publishing as part of their Doctor Who Missing Adventures series. Following the withdrawal of Virgin's licence to produce Doctor Who novels, Day moved to BBC Books, who published the novel The Devil Goblins from Neptune in 1997. The novel (co-written with Keith Topping) was the first of BBC Books' Past Doctor Adventures series, and was quickly followed by The Hollow Men in 1998 - again written with Topping. 1998 also saw the publication of Another Girl, Another Planet by Virgin Publishing. Co-written with Steve Bowkett (under the pseudonym Len Beech), this was one of the first books in Virgin's line of Bernice Summerfield novels.
Following these novels, Day returned to solo writing, and to the Past Doctor Adventures range in 2001 with the novel Bunker Soldiers. This was followed in 2004 by the novel The Sleep of Reason, one of the final Eighth Doctor Adventures to be published and perhaps his most popular novel. Between 2000 and 2001 Day wrote nine episodes for Five's Family Affairs, and in 2005 he started writing for BBC One's Doctors. In 2008 he was lead writer on Crisis Control, a new series for CBBC; Day storylined all thirteen episodes.
As well as writing fiction, Day has also written several unofficial guide books to television series such as The X Files, Star Trek: The Next Generation and The Avengers. These were published by Virgin, and co-written with Keith Topping and (with the exception of Shut It!, a guide to The Sweeney and The Professionals) Paul Cornell. Cornell, Day and Topping also wrote the extremely popular Doctor Who Discontinuity Guide, published by Virgin in 1995 as a light-hearted guide to the mistakes and incongruities of the television series. The first book written by Cornell, Day and Topping was Classic British TV, which was released by Guinness Publishing in 1993 and 1996.
In recent years Day has continued his work on Doctor Who, with the play No Man's Land for Big Finish Productions' audio adventures range, the bestselling novel Wooden Heart for the BBC's range of New Series Adventures, and comic strips for Doctor Who Adventures. The Jade Pyramid, an original Doctor Who audiobook for the eleventh Doctor,and a novelisation of an episode of Merlin,are both due for release in 2010.
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November 10, 2025
"Remember me as a shooting star that blazes swiftly and then fades. People notice it at the time and remember it when it's gone..."
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"What do you want?" It wasn't one of Bernice's better ripostes, but it was the only one that came to mind.
"Word is you had a very unusual holiday."
"I battled against fascists, uncovered a conspiracy. The usual."
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I really enjoyed this Benny novel. I haven't read this one before, but it flowed nicely and I love to see Benny helping another fellow archaeologist out, even if it is a different sort of archaeology.
Benny is getting bored of Dellah and wants a break, but at the same time, she is almost stuck in her ways until she recieves a message of concern from her friend Lizbeth.
We meet an array of interesting characters, bit of out of space mafia and very philosophical debates in this novel.
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"What do you want?" It wasn't one of Bernice's better ripostes, but it was the only one that came to mind.
"Word is you had a very unusual holiday."
"I battled against fascists, uncovered a conspiracy. The usual."
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I really enjoyed this Benny novel. I haven't read this one before, but it flowed nicely and I love to see Benny helping another fellow archaeologist out, even if it is a different sort of archaeology.
Benny is getting bored of Dellah and wants a break, but at the same time, she is almost stuck in her ways until she recieves a message of concern from her friend Lizbeth.
We meet an array of interesting characters, bit of out of space mafia and very philosophical debates in this novel.
September 14, 2023
Bernice Summerfield enters a familiar runaround here with car chases and criminal conspiracies and - very tenuously - a wee bit of archaeology. The characters and prose are all a bit bland. Finished it hoping this range of books would set its sights a bit higher next time.
March 20, 2018
This one was good but not outstanding. Initially premised as a mystery-thriller (who is stalking Bennie's acquaintance), the resolution comes a bit out of nowhere and the shock reveal of the stalker is minimised by the fact there aren't that many characters in the novel. I liked the awkward relationship between Benny and the friend she realises she doesn't know very well. Not sure what was happening in the epilogue, I'm hoping it's set-up for future novels as it makes little sense to me at the moment
January 8, 2022
Not my favourite Benny book, not sure why.
April 17, 2016
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Next in the series of Bernice Summerfield Novels, and one that I'm afraid left me rather cold; the girl of the title is another archaeologist, caught up in espionage and ancient history, but it just wasn't terribly interesting apart from Benny herself, who is always fun. Even there, I was annoyed by the use of her diary entries purely to shift from tight-third to first-person narrative rather gratuitously, without really adding much to the plot or our understanding of the characters' perceptions of it.
Next in the series of Bernice Summerfield Novels, and one that I'm afraid left me rather cold; the girl of the title is another archaeologist, caught up in espionage and ancient history, but it just wasn't terribly interesting apart from Benny herself, who is always fun. Even there, I was annoyed by the use of her diary entries purely to shift from tight-third to first-person narrative rather gratuitously, without really adding much to the plot or our understanding of the characters' perceptions of it.
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