Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Glass Prison (novel)

Publisher's summary
Don’t ever annoy the Fifth Axis. They might throw you into the Glass Prison on Deirbhile -- and then throw away the key.

Once you’re inside, there’s nowhere to hide. They can see your every movement. They control you. You’re going to be watched for the rest of your life, wherever you go, whoever you are. Even if you’re a professor of archaeology. Even if you’re a friend of the famous Irving Braxiatel, and you’ve written several popular coffee-table books.

Even if you’re pregnant. Even if your baby’s due any day now.

But, of course, they know all about your baby. And they’re planning to take it away.

That is, if the loony cultists you’re locked up with don’t get it first.

Characters

 * Bernice Summerfield
 * Gives birth (via C-section in a prison) to her half-Killoran half human baby.
 * Benny's nickname for Jason is "Mr Rabbit" and not because he's got long floppy ears and a twitchy nose.


 * Claire (aka Clar'atol)
 * Is a Pakhar.
 * Is midwife for Bernice and her baby.
 * Gets tortured by the Fifth Axis (it's standard procedure).
 * Knits a blanket from her fur for Benny's baby (it's a Pakhar tradition).


 * Sophia
 * Is a Grel.


 * Grippa
 * Fifth Axis plant whom Benny and Claire share a cell with.


 * The Wolf
 * Head honcho in the women's prison and leader of a cult.


 * Kolonel Daglan Straklant
 * Has been in the Glass Prison for ten months or so.
 * Has long hair and a beard.


 * Irving Braxiatel
 * Was going to build a birthing pool for Benny.
 * Has bought as space yacht.


 * Joseph


 * Jason Kane


 * Adrian Wall

Individuals

 * Claire, as a Pakhar, is shorter than Benny, coming up to her waist. Pakhars generally wash themselves with their tongues.
 * Benny's father Isaac Summerfield attends the naming of Benny's baby.
 * Former students Michael Doran, Jayne Waspo, Emile Mars-Smith, and Tameka (with her son Scott) also attend.
 * Keri, Benny's Pakhar friend is also present (she was also at Benny's wedding).
 * As do Starl Standmoor, Arko, Forno and Shell, whom Benny met on Venedel.
 * Chris Cwej also appears, looking decidedly older than Benny last saw him
 * Benny names her baby Peter Guy Summerfield. His middle name is in honour of Guy de Carnac, whom Benny once loved (c.f. NA:Sanctuary).
 * Wolsey likes to sunbathe in Mr Croton's greenhouse.

Locations

 * The Fifth Axis hold the planet Deirbhile as a strategic position, and for its Glass Prison made of an impregnable glass (except to a half-human, half Killoran baby's scream).

Organisations

 * The Fifth Axis appears to have been defeated.

Technology

 * Sophia (a Grel) uses her dataaxe to kill the Fifth Axis Imperarator.

Category:Television series

 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer is in its 792nd season.

Continuity

 * Benny was impregnated by Adrian Wall when Avril body-swapped her in BFBS: The Squire's Crystal.
 * Jason returned to this universe in BFBS: The Infernal Nexus.
 * Benny met and then subsequently made sure Kolonel Daglan Straklant of the Fifth Axis was placed in prison in BFBS: The Doomsday Manuscript.
 * Benny gives her son the middle name Guy after Guy de Carnac, whom she met in NA: Sanctuary.
 * Michael Doran, Jayne Waspo first appeared in BNA: Oh No It Isn't!.
 * Tameka first appeared in BNA: Beyond the Sun.
 * Emile Mars-Smith also first appeared in Beyond the Sun and last appeared in BNA: Twilight of the Gods.
 * Jason laments that Peter's naming is like his and Bernice's wedding (NA: Happy Endings).
 * Shell, Arko, Forno and Starl Stanmoor appeared in BFBS: The Gods of the Underworld.
 * Chris Cwej last appeared in BNA: Twilight of the Gods, in which he was physically and temporally (though not mentally) regressed to the age of approximately thirteen.
 * The Fifth Axis returns in BFBS: Life During Wartime and Death and the Daleks.

Timeline

 * The Glass Prison occurs after: BFBS: The Skymines of Karthos
 * The Glass Prison occurs before: BFBS: The Greatest Shop in the Galaxy