Beyond the Sun (novel)

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Beyond the Sun

Author	Matt Jones
Cover artist	Mark Salwowski
Series	Doctor Who book: The New Adventures
Release number	3
Subject	Featuring: Bernice Summerfield
Publisher	Virgin Books
Publication date	July 1997
ISBN	0-426-20511-1
Preceded by	Dragons' Wrath
Followed by	Ship of Fools

Beyond the Sun is a novel by Matt Jones featuring the fictional archaeologist Bernice Summerfield, his second for the Virgin 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[]

Beyond the Sun
Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	'Bernice Summerfield'
Release no.	2
Featuring	Bernice Summerfield
Written by	Matt Jones
Directed by	Gary Russell
Produced by	Gary Russell
Executive producer(s)	Jason Haigh-Ellery
Length	1 hr 40 mins
Release date	September 1998

In 1998, Beyond the Sun was adapted by its author for Big Finish Productions into an audio drama starring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice. The audio drama also features actor Anneke Wills, better known for playing Polly and Sophie Aldred who played Ace, both in the Doctor Who television series.

Cast[]

• 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[]

1. 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[]

• The Cloister Library - Beyond the Sun

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