Theory:Timeline - Bernice Summerfield

This page lists the appearances of Bernice Summerfield in the order in which she experienced them.

Limiting factors
Bernice first meets the Seventh Doctor and Ace in PROSE: Love and War. She concludes regular TARDIS travel with him in Happy Endings though she does meet the Doctor in other stories after this.

The Eighth Doctor drops Bernice off on Dellah a generation after her home time period at the end of The Dying Days.

Series basics
Bernice Summerfield's stories can be broadly divided up by publisher and who (if anyone) she shared the story with.


 * Virgin New Adventures
 * DWM comics. These were published at the same time as the novels and feature the Seventh Doctor, Bernice and Ace based on their appearances within the books.


 * Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures, the series of books that continued after Virgin lost the Doctor Who licence, these stories featured Bernice Summerfield in the main character role and continued her adventures after she was dropped off on Dellah by the Eighth Doctor in The Dying Days.
 * Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series. these prose stories and audio stories feature Bernice Summerfield after her solo Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures.

Early Life

 * PROSE: Biology Lesson on Mal Oreille
 * Benny is seven. Her father is still around.


 * PROSE: The Evacuation of Bernice Summerfield Considered as a Short Film by Terry Gilliam
 * Benny is eight. Her mother has just died. Her father disappeared less than six months ago.

Time at the Academy

 * PROSE: The Tunnels to Heaven
 * Benny is thirteen and a student at the academy.


 * ( SEGMENT )
 * A fifteen year old Benny has spent the past two years on the run from the academy after realising that soldiering isn’t for her. The Academy hasn’t come looking for her yet, setting this before Ever After Happy. (PROSE: Walking Backwards for Christmas)


 * AUDIO: Ever After Happy
 * Benny is sixteen years old and is still living in the woods outside the academy's grounds. The academy is sending scout parties to track her down. She is still friends with Simon Kyle.


 * ( FLASHBACK )
 * In 2556, Benny is betrayed by Simon and forced to return to the academy, setting this after Ever After Happy. Simon is sent away to keep the pair separated. (PROSE: The Soul's Prism)


 * PROSE: Prelude Sanctuary (first section)
 * Benny stows away on a freighter and abandons the academy on Beta Caprisis. She is fifteen or sixteen and is given the nickname "Benny" by Lisa Nguyen.

A young archaeologist

 * PROSE: Benny and Louise
 * Two years have passed since Benny abandoned the academy and jumped the troopship heading for Capella.


 * PROSE: Walking Backwards for Christmas
 * Bernice as a young archaeologist, with verve, energy, and manic needed to live up to her fake credentials.


 * PROSE: Charged
 * Benny plans to investigate some ruins.


 * PROSE: A Game of Soldiers
 * Benny hasn't been to Earth. She is drafted, as is everyone on this planet between the ages of 18 and 23.


 * PROSE: Genius Loci
 * Set in 2562. Benny turns 22 during the events of this story and is working as an archaeologist. She spends some time working on Jaiwan.


 * PROSE: The Ship of Painted Shadows
 * Benny has just left Jaiwan, setting this directly after Genius Loci.


 * PROSE: Steal from the World (past segments)
 * Walking to Babylon places this in 2563.


 * PROSE: Prime Five
 * Benny is 23 years old and almost exactly a year has passed since she left Jaiwan.


 * PROSE: Terra Incognita
 * Set in 2563.


 * PROSE: The Badblood Diaries
 * Set in 2565.


 * PROSE: Possum Kingdom (2565 segment)
 * Set on Earth.


 * PROSE: Prelude Sanctuary (second section)
 * Benny looks "just past her quarter-century."


 * PROSE: Home


 * PROSE: The Slight Façade


 * PROSE: Bernice Summerfield and the Library of Books


 * PROSE: Postcards from the Edge of Reason


 * PROSE: Blood on the Tracks


 * PROSE: Cooker Island
 * This story is probably not even true.


 * PROSE: Thirty Love
 * Benny is on Heaven, just prior to her thirtieth birthday, setting this just before Love and War.


 * PROSE: Prelude Love and War

Travels with the Seventh Doctor

 * PROSE: Love and War / AUDIO: Love and War
 * PROSE: Transit
 * PROSE: Prelude The Highest Science
 * PROSE: The Highest Science / AUDIO: The Highest Science
 * PROSE: The Pit
 * PROSE: Continuity Errors
 * PROSE: How You Get There
 * COMIC: Pureblood
 * COMIC: Younger and Wiser
 * COMIC: Flashback
 * COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks!
 * Comics feature only the Seventh Doctor and Bernice. Must take place before Deceit.


 * PROSE: Deceit
 * PROSE: Lucifer Rising
 * COMIC: Final Genesis
 * PROSE: White Darkness
 * PROSE: Shadowmind
 * PROSE: Birthright
 * COMIC: Time & Time Again
 * COMIC: Cuckoo
 * PROSE: Blood Heat
 * PROSE: The Dimension Riders
 * PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird
 * PROSE: Conundrum
 * PROSE: No Future
 * PROSE: Prelude Tragedy Day
 * PROSE: Tragedy Day
 * PROSE: Question Mark Pyjamas
 * PROSE: Legacy
 * PROSE: Theatre of War / AUDIO: Theatre of War
 * PROSE: All-Consuming Fire / AUDIO: All-Consuming Fire
 * AUDIO: The Shadow of the Scourge
 * AUDIO: The Dark Flame
 * The Big Finish pages for The Shadow of the Scourge and The Dark Flame places them after All-Consuming Fire and before Blood Harvest.


 * AUDIO: The Big Blue Book
 * COMIC: The Last Word
 * PROSE: Virgin Lands
 * Publication order for NA-era Big Finish Benny/Ace stories.


 * PROSE: Cold War
 * Publication order for NA-era Big Finish Benny/Ace stories.


 * PROSE: Blood Harvest
 * PROSE: Strange England
 * PROSE: First Frontier
 * PROSE: St Anthony's Fire
 * PROSE: Falls the Shadow
 * PROSE: Parasite
 * PROSE: Warlock
 * PROSE: Set Piece
 * PROSE: Infinite Requiem
 * PROSE: Sanctuary
 * PROSE: Human Nature
 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: And Then Again
 * Proper Benny is travelling with the Doctor.


 * PROSE: Short Trips: Past Tense: Of the Mermaid and Jupiter
 * Benny and the Doctor are travelling together without any other companions. Benny has travelled with Ace.


 * PROSE: The Trials of Tara
 * AUDIO: Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code
 * Benny and the Doctor are travelling together without any other companions. Benny has travelled with Ace.


 * PROSE: Original Sin / AUDIO: Original Sin
 * PROSE: Sky Pirates!
 * PROSE: Zamper
 * PROSE: Toy Soldiers
 * PROSE: Head Games
 * PROSE: The Also People
 * PROSE: Too Rich for My Blood
 * PROSE: Shakedown
 * PROSE: Just War
 * PROSE: Warchild
 * PROSE: Sleepy
 * PROSE: Death and Diplomacy
 * PROSE: Happy Endings
 * Bernice and Jason's wedding.


 * PROSE: Return of the Living Dad
 * PROSE: The Judgement of Solomon
 * Benny has time travelled, but it's not explained how. She is still married.


 * PROSE: The Vampire Curse: Possum Kingdom (2579 and Yesterways segments)
 * Benny appears with the Doctor. He sends her on a "mission" and is going to take her to her home time after this adventure.


 * PROSE: So Vile a Sin
 * PROSE: Eternity Weeps
 * Bernice and Jason divorce.

Living on Dellah

 * PROSE: The Dying Days
 * Benny meets the Eighth Doctor for the first time and after an adventure together involving the Ice Warriors, he drops her off on Dellah.


 * PROSE: Oh No It Isn't! / AUDIO: Oh No It Isn't!
 * Benny has been working at St Oscar's University for about a month.


 * AUDIO: Many Happy Returns (Quantum flashback)
 * Benny is working at St. Oscar's.


 * PROSE: Dragons' Wrath / AUDIO: Disassembled
 * Benny is reunited with Irving Braxiatel.


 * PROSE: Beyond the Sun / AUDIO: Beyond the Sun
 * Benny sees Jason for the first time in eight months.


 * PROSE: Ship of Fools


 * AUDIO: Making Myths
 * Benny works at St Oscar's.


 * AUDIO: Closure
 * Benny works at St Oscar's.


 * PROSE: The Spartacus Syndrome
 * Benny is living on Dellah. She pretends to be Menlove Stokes. She is working for Brax.


 * PROSE: Down


 * PROSE: Deadfall


 * PROSE: Ghost Devices


 * PROSE: Mean Streets


 * PROSE: Tempest


 * PROSE: Walking to Babylon / AUDIO: Walking to Babylon


 * AUDIO: Birthright


 * AUDIO: Just War


 * PROSE: Oblivion


 * PROSE: The Medusa Effect


 * PROSE: Dry Pilgrimage


 * PROSE: The Sword of Forever


 * PROSE: Another Girl, Another Planet


 * PROSE: Beige Planet Mars


 * PROSE: Where Angels Fear


 * PROSE: The Mary-Sue Extrusion


 * PROSE: The Dead Men Diaries: Appendix
 * Extract from Practical Guide to Archaeology / A Brief History of Time (Working Title).


 * AUDIO: The Grel Invasion of Earth
 * Dellah period. Benny mentions not wanting to use her Time ring again, suggesting this takes place after Just War. Jason mentions that Benny has encountered the Grel a few times before, setting this after both Oh No It Isn't and Where Angels Fear.


 * PROSE: Tears of the Oracle


 * PROSE: Return to the Fractured Planet


 * PROSE: The Joy Device


 * PROSE: Twilight of the Gods
 * A temporal blast by the Ferutu reduces Benny's physical age by about five years.

Joining the Braxiatel Collection

 * AUDIO: Glory Days (flashbacks)
 * Benny learns for the first time that Braxiatel plans on opening the Collection to the public.


 * Shortly after being recruited into the Braxiatel Collection, Benny accompanies Brax on a trip back to medieval Blackpool. (AUDIO: Many Happy Returns)


 * PROSE: A Question of Identity
 * Benny has very recently moved to the Collection, and is deluding herself that she's a serious academic.


 * PROSE: The Light that Never Dies
 * The Collection is still just starting, and is very disorganised. Benny has only been there for a few weeks.


 * PROSE: Heart of Glass
 * Benny is sent by Braxiatel to gain permission to visit Ganesh.


 * PROSE: Kill the Mouse!
 * Benny visits Ganesh after gaining permission in Heart of Glass. Benny is working for Brax on the collection.


 * PROSE: The Monster and the Archaeologists
 * Benny is working on the The Dead Men Diaries.


 * PROSE: Step Back in Time
 * Set from 29 May to 16 June.


 * PROSE: The Least Important Man
 * Benny is working for the Collection and it is the 26th century, setting this before The Doomsday Manuscript.


 * PROSE: Christmas Spirit
 * Takes place on Christmas Day. According to the linking narration, this takes place after Step Back in Time. Benny believes that Jason is dead.


 * PROSE: The Doomsday Manuscript
 * Set during 31 December 2599 to 6 January 2600. Brax gets Benny a new Joseph. The Collection celebrates the new millennium.


 * PROSE: Steal from the World
 * Benny has Joseph and works for the Collection, setting this after The Doomsday Manuscript.


 * PROSE: The Door into Bedlam
 * Benny is working at the newly founded Collection and has Joseph, setting this after The Doomsday Manuscript. Benny discovers that Jason is alive, setting this after Christmas Spirit. However he remains trapped in another’s dimension, setting this before The Infernal Nexus.


 * PROSE: Digging up the Past


 * PROSE: The Dead Men Diaries
 * Set after the other stories in the anthology. Benny refers to the upcoming publication of "Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Doomsday Manuscript," so the events of The Doomsday Manuscript have already happened.


 * AUDIO: The Secret of Cassandra


 * PROSE: The Squire's Crystal
 * Takes place February 2600


 * PROSE: The Gods of the Underworld
 * Takes place March 2600


 * AUDIO: The Stone's Lament
 * Adrian recalls the events of The Squire's Crystal.


 * AUDIO: The Extinction Event

Pregnancy

 * PROSE: The Infernal Nexus
 * Set a few months after The Squire's Crystal. Benny finds out she's pregnant.


 * PROSE: Dear Friend
 * Benny writes a letter to the Doctor a week after discovering she is pregnant with Peter in The Infernal Nexus. She remembers both versions of Just War.


 * AUDIO: The Skymines of Karthos
 * Takes place on July 2600


 * AUDIO: The Greatest Shop in the Galaxy


 * PROSE: The Glass Prison
 * Takes place in October 2600. Benny gives birth to Peter Summerfield.

A working mother

 * PROSE: Cuckoo
 * Benny has recently given birth to Peter.


 * AUDIO: The Green-Eyed Monsters


 * PROSE: Solar Max and the Seven-Handed Snake-Mother
 * Benny goes on an archaeological expedition.


 * PROSE: A Mutual Friend
 * Benny convinced Jason to use their time rings to go to 21st century Earth. She's working for the Collection.


 * PROSE: Alien Planets and You
 * Contains a description of people like Braxiatel. Jason is Benny's ex.


 * PROSE: Something Broken
 * There's a reference to Dellah. She's friends with Brax. Joseph is around, and if he's v1 he apparently hasn't been revealed to be a spy or anything like that.


 * PROSE: The Collection
 * Takes place over three months and one week.


 * PROSE: Setting Stone


 * PROSE: Time's Team
 * Benny is working for Braxiatel.


 * PROSE: Beedlemania


 * PROSE: The All-Seeing Eye


 * PROSE: A la Recherche du Temps Perdu
 * It's been a year since The Skymines of Karthos, setting this around July 2601. Cuckoo is referenced.


 * PROSE: Squadborronfell


 * PROSE: Taken by the Muses


 * PROSE: Might
 * If Keith can be trusted, and especially considering The Shape of the Hole, he's still a possibility at this point. Probably not after The Mirror Effect, though.


 * AUDIO: Benny's Story
 * Peter has been born. Benny meets the Eighth Doctor for the second time, so before ...Be Forgot - even though her introductory narration is after the Occupation.


 * AUDIO: The Plague Herds of Excelis
 * Benny meets Iris Wildthyme for the first time on Artaris.


 * Benny and Iris are still on Artaris following The Plague Herds of Excelis. (AUDIO: Many Happy Returns)


 * AUDIO: The Dance of the Dead
 * Iris drops Benny off on the Empress setting this immediately after The Plague Herds of Excelis.


 * AUDIO: The Mirror Effect
 * Brax first shows signs of evilness, keeping Jason from questioning his motives.


 * AUDIO: The Bellotron Incident
 * Benny meets Bev Tarrant for the first time, and she joins the Collection.


 * AUDIO: The Draconian Rage
 * Jason has nearly recovered since The Mirror Effect. Benny recalls the events of The Dark Flame.


 * AUDIO: The Poison Seas
 * Jason has mostly recovered from the events of The Mirror Effect and Benny learns that he has returned to the Collection. Leads into The Fall.

Fifth Axis Occupation

 * PROSE: The Fall
 * Benny returns to the Collection after receiving Brax's message and finds that the planetoid is under Fifth Axis occupation, setting this directly after The Poison Seas.


 * PROSE: Careless Talk


 * PROSE: The Birthday Party


 * PROSE: Five Dimensional Thinking


 * PROSE: Meanwhile, in a Small Room, a Small Boy...


 * PROSE: Lockdown Conversations: 1


 * PROSE: The Price of Everything


 * PROSE: Hit


 * PROSE: The Garden of Whispers


 * PROSE: Lockdown Conversations: 2


 * PROSE: The Crystal Flower


 * PROSE: Midrash


 * PROSE: Fear of Corners


 * PROSE: The Traitors


 * PROSE: Paths Not Taken


 * PROSE: Every Picture Tells a Story


 * PROSE: Fluid Prejudice


 * PROSE: Suffer the Children


 * PROSE: Drinking with the Enemy


 * PROSE: Lockdown Conversations: 3


 * PROSE: Passing Storms


 * PROSE: Speaking Out


 * PROSE: The Peter Principle


 * PROSE: A Bell Ringing in an Empty Sky
 * The recreated Benny in this story is from when the Axis were still in power.


 * PROSE: Lockdown Conversations: 4
 * Ending leads directly into Death and the Daleks.


 * AUDIO: Death and the Daleks
 * Benny thinks that the Daleks' intervention to boost the Axis may have destroyed the future with Keith and Rebecca. If that's true though, that future should be impossible as far back as The Doomsday Manuscript. Benny gets back with Jason partly in out of hope for that future.

Rebuilding after the Occupation

 * AUDIO: Braxiatel in Love
 * The Axis is gone. Veronica takes over as gardener temporarily after the death of Mister Crofton. Veronica claims to have arrived on the Collection in ‘99 and has been there for five years, suggesting a setting in 2604.


 * Following The Fifth Axis occupation, Hass is hired as the new gardener at the Collection. (AUDIO: Death and the Daleks)


 * PROSE: The Big Hunt
 * Benny is taking a break from rebuilding the Collection post-Axis.


 * AUDIO: The Grel Escape
 * Set in 2603. The occupation was recent.


 * PROSE: ...Be Forgot
 * It is Christmas and The Collection has nearly been rebuilt. Hass has replaced Mister Crofton as gardener.


 * PROSE: Misplaced Spring
 * April 2604. The Collection has been mostly rebuilt and is now accepting students.


 * PROSE: Welcome to the Machine


 * PROSE: Final Draft


 * PROSE: Against Gardens
 * Hass arrived at the collection a year ago.


 * PROSE: A Summer Affair
 * Begins in August and leads into September 2604. About a year has passed since the occupation.


 * PROSE: Denial


 * PROSE: Sex Secrets of the Robot Replicants
 * October 2604.


 * PROSE: The Blame of the Nose
 * November 2604.


 * PROSE: Reparation


 * PROSE: Buried Alive
 * Set a few days after Peter's fourth birthday, placing this in October 2604.


 * PROSE: There Never Need Be Longing in Your Eyes
 * Takes place a month after Buried Alive, setting this in November 2604.


 * PROSE: Nothing Up My Sleeve
 * December 2604 - nearly Christmas.


 * PROSE: Mentioning the War
 * It's been nearly two years since the occupation ended.


 * PROSE: Fragments
 * Set in spring. The Collection is in ruins by 3610, which raises some questions about Theatre of War. Extrapolating from the story, someday Peter will die and Benny will kill Brax.

Continued work for the Collection

 * AUDIO: The Bone of Contention


 * AUDIO: The Relics of Jegg-Sau


 * AUDIO: Silver Lining


 * PROSE: Zardox Break


 * PROSE: The Purpura Pawn


 * PROSE: On Trial
 * Jason's trial starts on November 12, 2605.


 * AUDIO: The Heart's Desire
 * 24th of December 2605.


 * AUDIO: The Masquerade of Death


 * PROSE: Secret Histories: You Shouldn't Have
 * Benny is on a trip with Adrian, having left Peter with Jason. Placed where Clarissa can complain about it.


 * PROSE: Secret Histories: Turn the Light On
 * Benny is on a job for Brax, after the Axis Occupation, and has left Peter at home.


 * PROSE: The Tree of Life
 * Beginning of 2606. Peter is supposedly two, but that doesn't make sense. Blame Brax or Mark Michalowski.


 * AUDIO: The Kingdom of the Blind


 * AUDIO: The Goddess Quandary
 * Benny visits Etheria. She worries what Ms Jones will say about leaving Peter so long.


 * PROSE: Parallel Lives (I)
 * Peter is nearly six, setting this in 2606. The Occupation ended nearly two years ago and Liberation Day is coming. Benny is due back from Etheria in a couple of days. Ms Jones leaves the Collection.


 * PROSE: The Serpent's Tooth
 * Benny goes looking for Ms Jones following her return from Etheria. She spends two weeks


 * PROSE: Parallel Lives (II)
 * Set a few weeks before Liberation Day. Clarissa returns to the Collection and kidnaps Peter. Bev and Adrian go looking for her while Benny returns from The Serpent's Tooth.


 * PROSE: Hiding Places
 * Bev and Adrian are now almost a couple. They arrive on the planet Thuban, leading directly into Parallel Lives (IV).


 * PROSE: Parallel Lives (III)
 * After learning from Brax that Ms Jones has kidnapped Peter, Benny hastily prepares to go after him. Jason arrives at the last minute to join Benny in looking for Peter, leading directly into Jason and the Bandits or O, Jason, Where Art Thou?.


 * PROSE: Jason and the Bandits or O, Jason, Where Art Thou?
 * On the way to find Ms Jones and rescue Peter, Jason recounts his latest adventure to Benny, leading directly into Parallel Lives (IV).


 * PROSE: Parallel Lives (IV)
 * Benny and Jason follow Clarissa to Thuban, where they rescue Peter. Clarissa is killed by Bev. Upon their return to the Collection, Hass informs Benny of another death, leading into Inappropriate Laughter.

The History Machine

 * PROSE: Inappropriate Laughter


 * PROSE: Siege Mentality
 * Follows Inappropriate Laughter. Brax is in contact with the other hims/bits of him. He wants to destroy reality - it isn't the right one. Jess Carter kills herself. Nryn is killed.


 * PROSE: Dead Mice
 * Benny is aware of the search for the "right" timeline. This one seems relatively idyllic initially, except for the Wolsey/Doggles discrepancy. Jess Carter kills herself. Doctor Wt'hlm is first seen.


 * PROSE: Acts of Senseless Devotion
 * Follows Inappropriate Laughter. Brax cares more about his reflection than Peter's imminent death. Doctor Wt'hlm appears.


 * PROSE: Walking Backwards for Christmas
 * Benny manages to unplug the history machine before anything really bad happens, though she and Bev receive flashbacks of her life. Bev is now more understanding of Benny.


 * PROSE: Match of the Deity
 * Jason is killed by the explosion of the history machine. Doggles becomes Benny's "ill-advised lover" as Wolsey described in Dead Mice. Doggles says the history machine compelled him to use it.


 * PROSE: Night of the Living Martian
 * The explosion of the history machine killed Benny.


 * PROSE: The God Gene
 * The explosion killed Jason. Bev and Benny are comrades in arms.


 * PROSE: Writing in Green
 * Jason's face is scarred by the explosion in both timelines. In the first, he and Benny have a daughter named Acacia. Hass is still a Martian.


 * PROSE: Showing Initiative
 * Jason's face is scarred from the explosion. Benny is dead. Brax apparently was trying to use a world-destroying statue.


 * PROSE: A Murderous Desire
 * The history machine worked, but it wasn't supposed to. Benny previously only suspected that Bev and Adrian were "doing the dirty." Nryn is alive. Benny glimpses becomes aware of the changing and tries to kill Doggles. Brax "needed" Hass.


 * PROSE: Back and There Again
 * Jason remembers dying in the explosion. Benny is with Doggles - they got together in Match of the Deity - except they didn't.


 * PROSE: One of My Turns
 * Everything's getting really trippy and only Benny notices. Jess Carter is outgoing, and Bev is nice to Benny. A Brax explains the reality bomb plan.


 * PROSE: The Ice Garden
 * Hass is a Yesodi now. Benny is a brainwashed Fifth Axis agent. Brax improvises a bomb to destroy reality.


 * PROSE: Family Man
 * A human Brax destroys reality. In the stable area created by the destroyed universes, Brax kills Doggles.


 * PROSE: After Life
 * A new version of Inappropriate Laughter. Hass is a Yesodi. Nryn, Jess, and Wolsey are still dead. Only Brax remembers everything. Doggle's experiment is cancelled. Benny heads off to investigate the Head of Jedawa, leading into The Lost Museum. The entire Collection is now officially in/part of Brax's timeship.


 * AUDIO: The Lost Museum
 * January 2606 according to the summary from Big Finish. Jason tells Benny that Bev and Adrian really are an item. Benny loses an arm.

Braxiatel's absence

 * AUDIO: The Crystal of Cantus
 * Benny has just returned from Trib City and her arm is still new, setting this immediately after The Lost Museum.


 * Benny recounts the events of Death and the Daleks while giving a talk about the Axis. (AUDIO: Death and the Daleks) It is Liberation Day, and Parasiel confronts Benny about her talk on the Axis. (AUDIO: The Goddess Quandary) Benny finally tells Parasiel the truth about what happened with Brax. (AUDIO: The Crystal of Cantus)


 * AUDIO: The Tartarus Gate


 * PROSE: Collected Works: Prologue
 * Set in the summertime. Benny and Bev agree that they must work together to make the Collection work in Brax's absence.


 * PROSE: Work in Progress
 * Set in mid-September 2106. Eight months have passed since Peter’s fifth birthday. The Quire arrive at the Collection.


 * PROSE: The Tears of Laughter


 * PROSE: Perspectives: Tribal Reservations


 * PROSE: Outside the Wall
 * Set in October.


 * PROSE: Key
 * Set in November. Benny tells Peter that she's going to be away more often now.


 * AUDIO: Timeless Passages
 * Benny is away from the Collection on a job for Bev.


 * PROSE: The Inconstant Gallery


 * PROSE: Perspectives: Quire as Folk
 * Set in December, near Christmas.


 * PROSE: Cabinets of Curiosities
 * It's January.


 * PROSE: Anightintheninthage
 * Benny goes to Columbanus.


 * PROSE: Grey's Anatomy
 * Benny is absent from the Collection.


 * PROSE: The Tree that Was
 * Benny is visiting Columbanus. It has been three years since the Axis.


 * PROSE: Perspectives: Forging a Bond


 * PROSE: The Two-Level Effect
 * Jason sends Peter to see Hass, which for Peter leads into Let There Be Stars. His interference with the shape of the Collection results in gravity waves, seen in the contemporaneous Sleeptalking.


 * PROSE: Let There Be Stars


 * PROSE: Sleeptalking
 * Set in April.


 * PROSE: Perspectives: Intermissions
 * Set between 23 April and 27 May 2607.


 * PROSE: False Security
 * Three weeks since the Blackbrane reception in Perspectives: Intermissions, setting this in late June.


 * PROSE: The Painting on the Stair


 * PROSE: The Cost for a Collection
 * Set in July.


 * PROSE: Collected Works: Lock


 * PROSE:  The Injured Party
 * Set in August.


 * AUDIO: The Worst Thing in the World


 * AUDIO: Summer of Love
 * Set during the summer. Bev gives Benny and Jason a mission, leading into Cheating the Reaper.


 * PROSE: Cheating the Reaper
 * The events of The Tartarus Gate were some months ago. Benny and Jason are supposed to be going to Ancient Greece on a mission for Bev, setting this shortly before The Oracle of Delphi. Blurb says late 2607. Ending leads directly into The Soul's Prism.


 * PROSE: The Soul's Prism
 * The events of Summer of Love are recent.


 * AUDIO: The Oracle of Delphi
 * Benny and Jason go to Ancient Greece.


 * PROSE: Mother's Ruin
 * It's been a few weeks since Summer of Love.


 * PROSE: Future Relations


 * PROSE: Collected Works: Epilogue
 * Set in September. Benny recalls agreeing to work with Bev the previous summer in Collected Works: Prologue. Benny is preparing to time travel.

The Draconian-Mim War

 * AUDIO: The Empire State
 * Benny and Maggie Matsumoto seek out Braxiatel. The events of The Tartarus Gate are recent. Ending leads directly into The Tub Full of Cats.


 * AUDIO: The Tub Full of Cats
 * Maggie says it's 2607.


 * AUDIO: The Judas Gift
 * Ends October 24, 2607.


 * AUDIO: Freedom of Information


 * PROSE: All Mimsy Were the Borogroves
 * The Mimsphere has been destroyed.


 * PROSE: The Loyal Left Hand
 * Benny plans to book a child therapist for Peter as soon as she returns to the Collection.


 * PROSE: Nursery Politics
 * Ends 5 August 2608. Benny gets a mysterious summons to Bedrock XII, leading into The Final Amendment.


 * AUDIO: The End of the World
 * Peter is eight.


 * PROSE: The Two Jasons
 * Refers to the genocide of the Mim. By the time Other Jason and Mira reach the Collection, Proper Jason and Benny are gone. Contemporaneous with The End of the World and The Final Amendment.


 * AUDIO: The Final Amendment


 * PROSE: The Two Jasons
 * In an aborted timeline, over 15 years have passed since The End of the World and The Final Amendment. The clone Benny is still alive and President. "What's left of" the real Benny has been found.


 * AUDIO: The Wake

Going freelance

 * AUDIO: Beyond the Sea
 * It's been a few months since Benny left the Collection.


 * AUDIO: The Adolescence of Time


 * AUDIO: The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel


 * PROSE: The Song of Old Man Bunyip
 * Benny is on a solo time ring trip.


 * PROSE: Redacted
 * Benny is freelancing and seems unentangled.


 * AUDIO: Every Dark Thought
 * According to the interviews, this is set during Benny's freelance period.


 * PROSE: Predating the Predators
 * June 2609. Benny is freelancing and has left Peter with a friend. She has been under the control of a vampire for 4 months. The clone of Benny is President of Earth.


 * PROSE: Making a Collection
 * 2609 on the Braxiatel Collection.


 * AUDIO: The Diet of Worms
 * Ending leads directly into Glory Days.


 * AUDIO: Glory Days
 * Ends with Benny and Peter on their way to Venus.


 * AUDIO: Absence
 * Benny and Peter are going to Venus, but they get stuck on Absence for 51 days.


 * AUDIO: Venus Mantrap
 * About a year after The Final Amendment. President Clone Benny is killed by Frost, whose existence is due to Brax altering the timeline. Ending leads directly into Secret Origins.


 * AUDIO: Secret Origins
 * Continues from cliffhanger ending of Venus Mantrap.


 * AUDIO: Many Happy Returns (Bev flashback)
 * "Shortly after an incident in Buenos Aires."


 * PROSE: A Gallery of Pigeons / The Firing Squad / The Illuminated Man
 * Take place synchronously for Benny, Adrian, and Peter, respectively. After Buenos Aires. They've come from 2609.


 * AUDIO: Many Happy Returns (Peter/Adrian flashback)
 * Adrian is around. Peter is seeing a psychologist about Jason.


 * PROSE: The Niceness
 * Benny knows Iris, setting this after The Plague Herds of Excelis. Iris also claims to have been imprisoned in the glass prison with Benny, however Benny does not recall her being there, setting this after The Glass Prison.


 * PROSE: Secret Histories (framing narrative)

The Deindum War

 * WC: Dead and Buried
 * Resurrecting the Past indicates this story takes place directly after Benny leaves the setting of Secret Histories.


 * AUDIO: Resurrecting the Past


 * PROSE: Prelude


 * PROSE: Winging It


 * PROSE: Don't Do Something, Just Sit There


 * PROSE: Six Impossible Things
 * It has been 3 years since The Wake.


 * PROSE: Interlude


 * PROSE: The War of Art


 * PROSE: The Better Part of Valour


 * PROSE: Digital Dreams


 * PROSE: Interlude


 * PROSE: The Empire Variations


 * PROSE: Past Caring


 * PROSE: The Propaganda War


 * PROSE: In the Ledgers of Madness
 * It has been a year since Venus Mantrap.


 * PROSE: Interlude


 * PROSE: Excalibur of Mars


 * PROSE: The End Times


 * PROSE: Epilogue


 * AUDIO: Escaping the Future
 * It has been 6 months since Resurrecting the Past.


 * AUDIO: Year Zero
 * Year 54.


 * AUDIO: Dead Man's Switch

The Epoch

 * AUDIO: The Curse of Fenman - (flashback)
 * Jack first meets Benny, Ruth, and Avril Fenman on the shuttle to Zordin, which is then remapped into Atlantis.


 * AUDIO: The Kraken's Lament
 * Year 57.


 * AUDIO: The Temple of Questions


 * AUDIO: Many Happy Returns - (Atlantis flashback)
 * Benny, Leo, and Ruth are together.


 * AUDIO: Private Enemy No. 1


 * AUDIO: Judgement Day
 * Benny and Ruth are split into three versions. 1Benny and 1Ruth go into stasis. 1Benny wakes up in 2616. 2Ruth is killed. Jack and 2Benny are in pseudo-Victorian London when it's remapped. 3Benny and 3Ruth are killed.

Journey to Legion

 * AUDIO: Brand Management
 * Benny is reunited with Ruth for the first time since Judgement Day. She joins Benny on her search for Peter Summerfield.


 * PROSE: The Weather on Versimmon
 * Benny and Ruth are still on their way to Legion, setting this between Brand Management and Paradise Frost.


 * AUDIO: Empress of the Drahvins
 * Only features Ruth and Benny, and nothing about Legion.


 * AUDIO: Bad Habits
 * Ending leads directly into Paradise Frost.


 * AUDIO: Paradise Frost
 * Benny and Ruth finally make it to Legion after six months of travelling, leading directly into Vesuvius Falling.

Living on Legion

 * AUDIO: Vesuvius Falling
 * It's been four years since Peter was abandoned by Benny. Even if it's 2616, they were last together in 2612. The discrepancy could be down to the post-Deindum redraft of history.


 * PROSE: The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis


 * AUDIO: Shades of Gray
 * The first flashback sequence is about a year after November 2616, so it is late 2617 at least now.


 * AUDIO: Everybody Loves Irving
 * Peter says he's 18.


 * AUDIO: Many Happy Returns (Jack flashback)
 * 1Benny and Jack are spending Irving's money. Two weeks before the framing narrative.


 * AUDIO: Many Happy Returns (framing narrative)


 * AUDIO: A Handful of Dust
 * Legion's Advent is a Christmas-equivalent, but there's no reason to think the dates match Christmas on Earth and the Collection.


 * PROSE: Filthy Lucre
 * Takes place over 13 days. Peter has something for Benny to do, leading into HMS Surprise.


 * AUDIO: HMS Surprise
 * Wednesday, the 9th of April 2618 was just over a year ago. Actually that'll be a Thursday, but maybe the calendar changes. More importantly, we know it's 2619 and that Legion Advent isn't at the same time as Christmas.


 * AUDIO: The Curse of Fenman
 * 2Benny and Jack were remapped into the space year 2613 from Atlantis. Apparently 1Benny was already awake that year, which makes no sense.


 * AUDIO: Big Dig


 * AUDIO: The Revenant's Carnival


 * AUDIO: The Brimstone Kid
 * Benny has to qualify the title "Professor" because she can't actually teach right now - there are no universities on Legion.


 * AUDIO: The Winning Side


 * AUDIO: In Living Memory
 * 1Benny has been on Legion for months - about a year.


 * PROSE: Big Bang Generation
 * Benny is living on Legion and Peter is still single, while Ruth and Jack are engaged. Benny recalls the events of The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield as taking place several years ago due to an error from Gary Russell, who believed that that series took place while Peter was still young.

Reunited with the Doctor and Ace

 * AUDIO: The Revolution
 * Benny tells the Seventh Doctor that she has a son now. Ending leads directly into Good Night, Sweet Ladies.


 * AUDIO: Good Night, Sweet Ladies
 * Ending leads directly into Random Ghosts.


 * AUDIO: Random Ghosts
 * Ending leads directly into The Lights of Skaro.


 * AUDIO: The Lights of Skaro
 * Benny rejoins the Doctor and Ace on their travels in the TARDIS.


 * AUDIO: The Pyramid of Sutekh / WC: Transmission from Mars
 * Benny is taking a break from TARDIS travel to attend Peter's wedding. Ending leads directly into The Vaults of Osiris.


 * AUDIO: The Vaults of Osiris
 * Ending leads directly into The Eye of Horus


 * AUDIO: The Eye of Horus
 * Ending leads directly into The Tears of Isis.


 * AUDIO: The Tears of Isis
 * The Doctor, Benny and Ace defeat Sutekh together and then continue on their travels.


 * Benny parts ways with the Doctor and Ace once more, then returns to teaching at various universities.

Back to Teaching

 * AUDIO: The Phantom Wreck


 * AUDIO: The Lady from Callisto Rhys
 * Benny teaches at a university and is taking students on an expedition. She isn't religious at all, so probably not Dellah. She gets to Mars via a wormhole. Interestingly, this means Vienna is set in the 27th century.

The Unbound Universe

 * AUDIO: The Library in the Body
 * Benny is giving a lecture at the beginning of the story. She is pulled into the Unbound Universe by the Unbound Doctor however she becomes trapped and decides to travel with him while they figure out a way to return her home.


 * AUDIO: Planet X
 * Benny takes her first trip in the Unbound Doctor's TARDIS, setting this directly after The Library in the Body.


 * AUDIO: The Very Dark Thing


 * AUDIO: The Emporium At The End
 * The TARDIS runs out of power and Benny learns that the Doctor is the President of the Universe.


 * PROSE: Hue and Cry


 * PROSE: Never The Way


 * PROSE: True Stories: Fast Contact


 * PROSE: Futureproof


 * PROSE: Stockholm From Home


 * PROSE: Bliss


 * PROSE:  Bliss City Council Records B116 22 Trial


 * PROSE: Legacy Presence
 * Set during Benny’s time in the Unbound Universe. Benny knows that the Doctor is President of the Universe, setting this after The Emporium at the End.


 * PROSE: The Death of Hope
 * Set during Benny’s time in the Unbound Universe. Benny knows that the Doctor is President of the Universe, setting this after The Emporium at the End.


 * AUDIO: Wise Women
 * Set during Benny's time in the Unbound Universe. Benny is friends with Gilly, setting this after Hue and Cry.


 * AUDIO: The City and the Clock


 * AUDIO: Asking for a Friend


 * AUDIO: Truant


 * AUDIO: The True Saviour of the Universe
 * The Doctor and Benny successfully escape the Unbound Universe.

Back in her own universe

 * AUDIO: The Angel of History
 * The universe isn't mentioned, but the Doctor says Summerfield travels with him.


 * AUDIO: Pride of the Lampian


 * AUDIO: Clear History


 * AUDIO: Dead and Breakfast


 * AUDIO: Burrowed Time


 * AUDIO: Have I Told You Lately?


 * AUDIO: The Undying Truth
 * The Time Lords track down the Doctor and Benny, leading directly into Inertia.


 * AUDIO: Inertia
 * The Doctor materialises the TARDIS on a remote world in order to evade the Time Lords. Ending leads directly into Gallifrey.


 * AUDIO: Gallifrey

Alone again

 * AUDIO: Lies in Ruins
 * Benny is working for the Luna University, and has met the Eighth Doctor before. Benny is aware of the Matrix, setting this after Gallifrey.


 * AUDIO: Collision Course
 * Benny has travelled with several Doctors, setting this after her travels with the Seventh Doctor, Eighth Doctor and the Unbound Doctor.


 * AUDIO: Shadow of a Doubt


 * WC: A Visit from Prof. Summerfield
 * Benny tells a creature a selection of stories, including from the Unbound Universe.

Later Life

 * PROSE: Paydirt
 * The Professor has white hair. She's 2000 years ahead of her own time.

Keith & Rebecca Timeline

 * PROSE: Return of the Living Dad


 * PROSE: Collected Works: Key
 * Keith is a child.


 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: The Shape of the Hole
 * This Benny has divorced Jason, doesn't work for Brax, and has Peter, Keith and Rebecca.


 * AUDIO: Many Happy Returns (recording of Jason and associated flashbacks)
 * Braxiatel is "that camp guy in the white suit," and says "At last, my dastardly planning and plotting shall bear fruit." Keith is an adult and Rebecca is in school.


 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: Might
 * Assuming Keith is real, he's an adult.

2Benny

 * AUDIO: New Frontiers: The Curse of Fenman (flashback)
 * 2Benny and Jack were remapped into "the space year 2613" from fake Victorian London. Apparently 1Benny was already awake that year, which makes no sense.


 * PROSE: Adorable Illusion
 * It would take a minimum of six months to get from Valentine's World to Legion. Jack is separated from 2Benny and sent towards Legion by Avril Fenman's agents.


 * AUDIO: Missing Persons: The Winning Side
 * AUDIO: Missing Persons: In Living Memory
 * 2Benny throws herself into the time hole thing and dies.

Unplaced

 * PROSE: The Bunny's Curse
 * Set during Benny’s time at the Academy.


 * PROSE: Oh No, Not Again
 * Set In “The Past”


 * PROSE: ''The Seventh Fanfic
 * Set during Benny’s time on Dellah.


 * PROSE: Benny and the Grieving Man
 * Set during Benny’s time at the collection.


 * PROSE: Wurm Noir
 * Set during Benny’s time on Legion.


 * PROSE: Old Ruins
 * Set in “The Future”.


 * AUDIO: Many Happy Returns (introductory scene)
 * Obviously Jason's alive, but the whole thing's super metafictional.


 * AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor


 * AUDIO: Ever After Happy - (old Benny)
 * Benny is accompanied by Peter. She lies that she's on a research expedition for the Braxiatel Collection.

The Christmas Collection

 * AUDIO: Tap
 * Set during Benny's time on Dellah.


 * AUDIO: Null Ziet
 * Set during Benny's time on Dellah.


 * AUDIO: Glory to the Reborn King
 * Set during Benny's time on Dellah.


 * AUDIO: Signifiers of the Verphidiae
 * Set during Benny's time at the Braxiatel Collection.


 * AUDIO: The Frosted Deer
 * Set during Benny's time at the Braxiatel Collection.


 * AUDIO: Collector’s Item
 * Set during Benny's time at the Braxiatel Collection.


 * AUDIO: Santa Benny at the Bottom of the Sea
 * Set during Benny's time at the Braxiatel Collection.


 * AUDIO: Bernice Summerfield and the Christmas Adventure
 * Set during Benny's time on Legion.


 * AUDIO: White Christmas
 * Set during Benny's time on Legion.