Oh No It Isn't! (novel)

Publisher's summary
'The King's balls get bigger every year!'

Bernice Surprise Summerfield is settling into her new job as Professor of Archaeology at St. Oscar's University on the planet Dellah — one of the most prestigious centres of learning in the Milky Way. She wants to put her past, especially her failed marriage, behind her.

So she's glad when she gets the chance to take her tutorial group to investigate the lost civilisation of Perfecton. Three whole weeks of archaeological research in the field. The perfect way to forget your worries.

She doesn't bank on three things.

That Menlove Stokes, Professor of Applied Art, and various other academics would be along for the ride. That vicious alien marauders would decide to explore the planet at the same time. And that a reactivated Perfecton device would plunge her into a situation that can only be described as — panto.

Characters

 * Bernice Summerfield
 * Benny uses Ah: A Perfume For An Alien or Human.
 * Benny has the name Dick Whittington in the panto reality.


 * Wolsey
 * Is transformed into a seven-foot-tall swashbuckler with marked propensities for singing, tap-dancing, and rude jokes.


 * Menlove Stokes
 * Professor of Applied Arts at St. Oscar's University.


 * Joseph
 * This is the first appearance of Benny's robotic porter, who looks like a hovering sphere about the size of a billiard ball.


 * Michael Doran

Continuity

 * Benny was taken to Dellah by the Eighth Doctor at the end of NA: The Dying Days.
 * Benny first met God in NA: The Also People.
 * This novel introduces Marcus Krytell; Benny will meet him in BNA: Ship of Fools.