The Medusa Effect (novel)

The Medusa Effect is the twelfth Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures novel. It was Justin Richards' second of four PROSE novels.

Publisher's summary
'Bernice Summerfield?'

'That rather depends on who wants to know.'

I'd like to offer you a job. I think you'll find it interesting.

Isn't this just a little inappropriate? I mean, we're at a funeral.

'That rather depends on the job.'

Medusa -- an experimental spaceship developed by the Advanced Research Department of St Oscar's University. Missing since it was launched, presumed lost in the wars, it was a project so secret that it has never been declassified.

Now, twenty years on, Medusa is coming home.

After one of the investigation team dies suspiciously, Professor Bernice Summerfield is assigned to help discover what went wrong. But to do so she must solve a riddle. What is the strange link between the original crew and the team now on board the drifting ship? And why do their ghosts still haunt Medusa?

Plot
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Characters

 * Bernice Summerfield
 * Irving Braxiatel
 * Commander Skutloid
 * Stuart Stonely
 * Heath Chromsky
 * Helena Gyles
 * Rawling Hoyt
 * Andrea Moritz
 * Dorian Phelps
 * Forsyth Kerven

Individuals

 * Benny drinks a lot to counter act the memory engrams.
 * Commander Skutloid is a seven foot tall Martian (and while it's not said specifically, he is an Ice Warrior). He is head of the Institute of Strategic Studies at St Oscar's University.
 * Stuart Stonely was born on board the Medusa, taking his name from a sign on a door which read "Stewards Only".
 * Heath Chromsky Commander of the mission to the Medusa.
 * Forsyth Kerven is a historian and archivist at Dellah University's Advanced Research Department (ARD).

Locations

 * The Advanced Research Department is guarded by two Goll security guards.
 * Helena Gyles and Rawling Hoyt are Security Officers for the Medusa mission.

Science

 * Dorian Phelps, late to middle age, a forensic research scientist.

Technology

 * Andrea Moritz, in her mid-twenties, she is an expert in remote-guidance technology.

Continuity

 * The ARD first appeared in PROSE: Oh No It Isn't!.
 * Commander Skutloid first appeared in PROSE: Dragons' Wrath.