The Medusa Effect (novel)

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?

Characters

 * Bernice Summerfield
 * Benny drinks a lot to counter act the memory engrams.


 * Irving Braxiatel


 * Commander Skutloid
 * Head of the Institute of Strategic Studies at St Oscar’s University.
 * He’s a 7 foot tall Martian (and while it’s not said specifically, he is an Ice Warrior).


 * Stuart Stonely
 * Was born on board the Medusa.


 * Heath Chromsky
 * ‘Commander’ of the mission to the Medusa.


 * Helena Gyles
 * Security Officer on the Medusa mission.
 * In Benny’s opinion very cynical about the whole thing.


 * Rawling Hoyt
 * Security Officer on the Medusa mission.
 * Quite young.


 * Andrea Moritz
 * Is in her mid 20s
 * An expert in remote-guidance technology.


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


 * Forsyth Kerven
 * Historian and archivist at Dellah University’s Advanced Research Department (ARD).

Continuity

 * The ARD first appeared in BNA: Oh No It Isn't!.