Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Infernal Nexus (novel)

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.

Characters

 * Bernice Summerfield
 * Finds out she's pregnant, she thinks about shagging Jason and pretending it's his.


 * Jason Kane
 * Shags Mae An T'zhu.


 * Volan Sleed


 * Aragazar Flatchcock


 * Mora Di Vasht


 * Suzi II
 * A cybernetically altered being.


 * Mae An T'zhu


 * Rupert Alouicious Barnstable Gilhooly

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 to 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
 * The Snata is mentioned. (NA: Sky Pirates!)

Timeline

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