The Mary-Sue Extrusion (novel)

Publisher's Summary
Bernice Summerfield seemed to hold the key. She was in it up to her neck, and she was the one person left who could tell me what I needed to know. I rather hoped it wouldn't be necessary to snap said neck and kill her.

The planet Dellah was once one of the cultural centres of the galaxy. Now, it lies in ruins and things walk through the barren landscape, twisting the unfortunates who remain there to their unholy will.

The tragic effects of this cataclysm have been felt throughout local space, from cruel and draconian Thanaxos to the multiplexal chaos of the Proximan Chain Rafts. All know the ultimate result: a war is coming - is inevitable - and is set to blow the fragile stability of the galactic sector apart.

Only one person has the pieces of the puzzle that might prevent the coming collapse - Bernice Summerfield. The problem is, she's missing, and what's more she's not feeling precisely herself. And if Benny doesn't find out exactly who she is, and how she can fit into her newly shattered world, there isn't going to be a world for her to come back to at all.

Characters

 * Strantum Seven Agent
 * Has a brain print originating from the late late 21st century.
 * Is a Synthoid


 * Sela Dane
 * DataDay newscaster.


 * Prince G'jimbo
 * Gets possessed by a All-High God (the Dellahan gods).
 * Is quite stupid.
 * Gets killed by a 'stupid bomb'.


 * Emile Mars-Smith
 * Is hiding out on an unnamed planed meditating to keep control of the god in his head.


 * Jason Kane
 * Jason is described as "Mid-thirties, with the lean masculinity that comes from putting muscles to their daily use, brown-skinned with distinctive skin tone that spoke of expensively micro-customized gene-modification so that the skin could withstand high-UV and high-radiation suns. ...a vest that showed the traces of primitive childhood gang tattoos on his shoulders and arms." (page 189)
 * Is working with Mira.


 * Mira
 * Isn't a telepath, but has augmented her body and brain so much, and jacked to such a high level that she might as well be a one.


 * Professor Sabron Jones
 * Used to be a chemist at St. Oscars
 * Held at detention facility, tortured some what by the inmates.
 * Grew begonias that Benny found on the Earth's moon.
 * Saw Benny saved by Clarence.


 * Bernice Summerfield
 * Has a 'Mary Sue' performed.
 * After the Mary Sue calls herself Rebecca.
 * Returned to Dellah to pick up Wolsey, that incident activated the Mary Sue.

Continuity

 * Benny was saved from Dellah in BNA: Where Angels Fear.
 * There is an excerpt from 'A True Adventure of a New Frontier' called Ship of Death, which features a particularly bad retelling of BNA: Ship of Fools.