Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Infernal Nexus (novel)

 was the fourth novel published by Big Finish Productions, part of their Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series. It featured the return of Jason Kane, who last appeared in the final Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures novel Twilight of the Gods in 1999.

Publisher's summary
Acting on an abstruse tip-off from the renowned paraphysiologist Dr Rupert Gilhooly (a man who, like, knows a lot of stuff) one Bernice Summerfield has found herself on a probe-ship heading deep into the Problematic Heart of the galaxy -- not knowing what, or quite who, she might find.

What she finds is Station Control. A place that exists, simultaneously, in four hundred and seventeen dimensions, a brawling, souk-like Nexus between every world that can, or has or ever will be. And one of those dimensions is Hell.

Bernice knows nothing of the rivalries and power-plays going on here. So she blunders right into them and makes a complete hash of everything, natch. And one of the particular whoms she finds, quite frankly, what with one thing and another, she could quite well do without. In her current state.

Plot
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Characters

 * Bernice Summerfield
 * Jason Kane
 * Volan Sleed
 * Aragazar Flatchcock
 * Mora Di Vasht
 * Suzi II
 * Mae An T'zhu
 * Rupert Alouicious Barnstable Gilhooly

Computers

 * Benny encounters an ARVID in The Maze.

Currency

 * Souls, the currency in The Infernal Regions and one of the currancies in use at Station Control.

Individuals

 * Bernice Summerfield finds out she's pregnant, she thinks about shagging Jason and pretending it's his.
 * Jason Kane has sex with Mae An T'zhu.
 * Suzi II is a cybernetically altered being.

Literature

 * The Kiss of the Dragon Lady, a proposed story by Jason Kane of Dead Dog in the PreProductions.

Locations

 * The Infernal Regions is probably where the idea of 'Hell' came from, it's an actual place which is a sort of universe made of rock with bubbles of places which aren't rock which would in theory be the equivalent of planets.
 * Station Control acts as a sort of 'spaceport' (not that it's in space), it's more of nexus point for 417 different universes.

Theories and concepts

 * Theory of Transdimensional Contrivance is a theory postulated by Dr Gilhooly which states if you become cut off from your home dimension you don't age because you're away from your native timeline.

Species

 * Benny uses a rape alarm to stun some Whistling Ninjas.
 * A Trichoate is a type of demon containing three separate personalities.
 * The Monasticy of Slom is a race of land-based squid with a profound religious fanaticism for punctuality.
 * The Snata is mentioned.

Continuity

 * Jason Kane was engulfed into the multiverse in BNA: Twilight of the Gods.
 * Jason Kane started working for Aragazar Flatchcock in BFBS: The Dead Men Diaries - The Door into Bedlam.
 * Benny got pregnant when her body was taken over by Avril in BFBS: The Squire's Crystal.
 * Benny previously encountered an ARVID in BNA: Ship of Fools (also by Dave Stone).
 * The idea of "Theory of Transdimensional Contrivance" is mentioned in BFBS: Walking to Babylon

Timeline

 * The Infernal Nexus occurs after: BFBS: The Extinction Event
 * The Infernal Nexus occurs before: BFBS: The Skymines of Karthos