Tears of the Oracle (novel)

Publisher's Summary
Benny, you're ill. Let us help you. We want to help you. Really we do. This paranoia. These delusions. What you've done - it's driven you insane. Nobody wants to hurt you. We're your friends.

On Dellah, the shattered former home of Bernice Summerfield, only the Advanced Research centre survives - the last remnant of the once famous university. But it's under siege from fanatical groups of religious inquisitors, searching for new converts or dangerous heretics.

Benny would have to be mad to go back.

Jason Kane, Bernice's one-time husband and all-time opportunist, has found the ancient remains of the Oracle of the Lost on an obscure planetoid known only as KS-159. Or so he says.

Benny would have to be mad to believe him.

The mysterious Irving Braxiatel is looking for somewhere quiet to house his huge collection of... everything.

Benny would have to be mad to suggest KS-159.

The Oracle of the Lost, legend says, can answer any question. But the cryptic answers she gives are never helpful, and often dangerous.

Benny would have to be mad to reawaken her. Or ask a question. Or believe the answer.

Characters
Bernice Summerfield
 * Is diagnosed with a brain tumour.

Irving Braxiatel
 * Thinks of Bernice as family.

Clarence
 * The Oracle reveals that Clarence was once !C-Mel.

Divson Follet

Emilia Winston

Hayward Denson

Chris Cwej
 * Regenerates.

God

J-Kibb

B-Aaron

Continuity

 * Braxiatel uses a communications cube (DW: The War Games) to contact his people for assistance.
 * Chris was exposed to the lethal dose of radiation in BNA: Dead Romance.
 * Benny got a Mary-Sue in BNA: The Mary-Sue Extrusion.
 * EDA: Demontage features the Vega Station.
 * There is a brief revist of Benny's wedding in NA: Happy Endings.
 * !C-Mel (the ship Clarence once was) first appeared in NA: The Also People.
 * When discussing his imminent regeneration of Chris Cwej the Time Lord mentions Chris had a boddy bepple to appear as a giant teddy bear in NA: Original Sin.
 * Skutloid, Drexton and Garshal all first appeared in BNA: The Medusa Effect.
 * Emilia Winston first appeared in BNA: Dragons' Wrath, this was also the novel in which Braxiatel worked out Joseph wasn't an 'ordinary' porter...and neglected to tell anyone.