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|series= [[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures|Virgin<br /> Bernice Summerfield New Adventures]]
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|series= [[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures|Virgin<br /> Bernice Summerfield New Adventures]]
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|main character= [[Bernice Summerfield]]
  
|main character= [[Bernice Summerfield]]
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|featuring= [[Mr Misnomer]], Ash, Lucretia
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|featuring= [[Mr Misnomer]], Ash, Lucretia
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|enemy= The [[SSSSSSS]], [[!X]]
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|enemy= The [[SSSSSSS]], [[!X]]
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|year= [[Tyler's Folly]], January 14th, 2593
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|setting= [[Tyler's Folly]], [[14 January]] [[2593]]
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|writer= [[Lawrence Miles]]
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|writer= [[Lawrence Miles]]
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|publisher= [[Virgin Books]]
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|cover= [[Mark Salwowski]]
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|publisher= Virgin Books
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|release date= [[September]] [[1997]]
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|release date= [[2 September (releases)|2 September]] [[1997 (releases)|1997]]
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|format= Paperback Book, ? Pages
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|format= Paperback Book; 31 Chapters, 311 Pages
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|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20512-X
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|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20512-X
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'''''Down''''' was the fifth [[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures]] novel. It featured a reappearance of [[The People]], who were introduced in [[Ben Aaronovitch]]'s ''[[The Also People (novel)|The Also People]]''.
 
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'''''Down''''' was the fifth [[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures]] novel. It featured a reappearance of [[the People]], who were introduced in [[Ben Aaronovitch]]'s ''[[The Also People (novel)|The Also People]]''.
   
 
== Publisher's summary ==
  
== Publisher's summary ==
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''''Mankind expects pain. However it seems to outsiders.''''
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''Mankind expects pain. However it seems to outsiders.''
   
 
[[Tyler's Folly]]: a colony world on the unattractive side of Earthspace, a planet wracked by earthquakes and crawling with off-world bodysnatchers. When the local authorities pull a bedraggled Professor [[Bernice Summerfield]] out of the ocean in an off-limits 'quake zone, they naturally want to know what she is doing there... but the professor can only mumble something about woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers.
  
[[Tyler's Folly]]: a colony world on the unattractive side of Earthspace, a planet wracked by earthquakes and crawling with off-world bodysnatchers. When the local authorities pull a bedraggled Professor [[Bernice Summerfield]] out of the ocean in an off-limits 'quake zone, they naturally want to know what she is doing there... but the professor can only mumble something about woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers.
   
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According to Bernice, the planet is hollow, its interior inhabited by warring tribes of cavemen and strangely unconvincing prehistoric monsters. Some dark and ancient god rules this underground kingdom -- albeit a dark and ancient god with a penchant for thirties pulp adventures and Saturday morning action serials.
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According to Bernice, the planet is hollow, its interior inhabited by warring tribes of [[cavemen]] and strangely unconvincing prehistoric monsters. Some dark and ancient god rules this underground kingdom -- albeit a dark and ancient god with a penchant for thirties pulp adventures and Saturday morning action serials.
   
 
Can Bernice's claims be true? Is Tyler's Folly really under threat from an ageless subterranean horror? And why does so much of her story revolve around the utterly amoral alien known as !X...?
  
Can Bernice's claims be true? Is Tyler's Folly really under threat from an ageless subterranean horror? And why does so much of her story revolve around the utterly amoral alien known as !X...?
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* [[Frans Nils Kryptosa]] is an explorer and archaeologist who wrote ''[[In Search of Ancient Mu]]'' and ''[[A Short Trip to the Centre of Creation]]''.
  
* [[Frans Nils Kryptosa]] is an explorer and archaeologist who wrote ''[[In Search of Ancient Mu]]'' and ''[[A Short Trip to the Centre of Creation]]''.
 
* The SSSSSSS use at least 18 official hymns and the handbook ''[[Mein Pantz]]'' by [[Bernard Richtmanstances]].
  
* The SSSSSSS use at least 18 official hymns and the handbook ''[[Mein Pantz]]'' by [[Bernard Richtmanstances]].
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=== Individuals ===
  
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* [[!X]] (aka si!Xist-i!xatl-iVa!qara) is of [[The People]], but he has removed himself from their society.
  
   
 
=== Law and order ===
  
=== Law and order ===
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* As !X is not part of the People's society he is not bound by the [[Time Lord - People Treaty]].
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* As !X is not part of the People's society he is not bound by the [[Time Lord-People Treaty]].
   
 
=== Locations ===
  
=== Locations ===
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* !X and Fos!ca are of [[The People]] who live in the [[Worldsphere]], both it and Tyler's Folly are examples of [[Dyson Sphere]]s.
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* !X and Fos!ca are of [[the People]] who live in the [[Worldsphere]], both it and Tyler's Folly are examples of [[Dyson sphere]]s.
   
 
=== Organisations ===
  
=== Organisations ===
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=== Psychology ===
  
=== Psychology ===
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* [[Teleportaphobia]] also known as "Molecular Vertigo" is described here as the fear of matter transmission. Specifically it is the psychological disorder that makes a person fear matter transmission as each time you are matter transported your body dies and another is re-created at the receiving end.
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* [[Teleportaphobia]] also known as "Molecular Vertigo" is described here as the fear of matter transmission.
   
 
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* Katastrophen is reminded of [[buffo frog]]s.
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* The [[Metatraxi]] are "famous" for eating their own parents.
  
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* Bernice has a [[Selachian]] palmtop.
  
   
 
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== Notes ==
  
== Notes ==
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* There is a web address (www.ndirect.co.uk/shebeen) listed in the introduction of '''Down''' which ''did'' contain background material to '''Down''', however the link is no longer active and doesn't appear to be archived anywhere.
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* The introduction of ''Down'' listed a web address (www.ndirect.co.uk/shebeen) stated to contain background material to the novel. Though the link is no longer active, the novel's glossary, footnotes, and appendices were archived [https://web.archive.org/web/20021212084007/http://www.menace.ndo.co.uk:80/loz/down.htm here.]
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* ''Down'' re-introduces the People. This includes [[Ben Aaronovitch]]'s unique pronunciations for their names; a full explanation can be found in the introduction to ''[[The Also People (novel)|The Also People]]''.
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* The submarine was originally intended to be black, but after the cover artist rendered it as pink, Miles rewrote its colour.<ref>[https://sci-fi-london.com/podcast/2013/12/420-lawrence-miles Sci-Fi London Interview]</ref>
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* '''Down''' re-introduces the People, this includes [[Ben Aaronovitch]]'s unique pronunciations for their names, a full explanation can be found in the introduction to ''[[The Also People]]''.
  
   
 
== Continuity ==
  
== Continuity ==
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* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Also People (novel)|The Also People]]'' introduced [[The People]] and was the first meeting between Bernice and The People.
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* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Also People (novel)|The Also People]]'' introduced [[the People]] and was the first meeting between Bernice and the People.
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* [[Ordifica]] is mentioned in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Ghost Devices (novel)|Ghost Devices]]'' and seen in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]''.
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* Ordifica is mentioned in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Ghost Devices]]'' and seen in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]''.
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* [[Frans Nils Kryptosa]] was previously mentioned in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Beyond the Sun (novel)|Beyond the Sun]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Ship of Fools (novel)|Ship of Fools]]''.
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* Students often return from [[Xan Burrosa]] with a counterfeit [[Ice Warrior|Martian]] "[[Sword of Tuburr|Spear of Tuburr]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy (novel)|Legacy]]'', ''[[GodEngine (novel)|GodEngine]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Ascendance (comic story)|Ascendance]]'')
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* A [[constable (Down)|constable]] remembers watching a [[vidcast]] of Summerfield testifying on [[Stanturus Three]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dragons' Wrath (novel)|Dragons' Wrath]]'')
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* [[Earth]] uses [[mind probe]]s in cases of severe security breaches. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'')
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* Fos!ca thinks the [[Metatraxi]] are "famous" for eating their own parents. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Crime of the Century (audio story)|Crime of the Century]]'')
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* Bernice steals a [[Selachian]] palmtop from one of the Nazis. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Killing Ground (novel)|Killing Ground]]'', ''[[The Murder Game (novel)|The Murder Game]]'', et al.)
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* Bernice jokes the sequel to ''[[Down Among the Dead Men]]'' will be called "''Fear and [[Sloathe]]s in [[Las Vegas]]''". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sky Pirates! (novel)|Sky Pirates!]]'')
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* Ash recalls the [[Dora (Frontier in Space)|President of Earth]] who served from [[2536]] to [[2541]] was female. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'')
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* Believing [[time travel]] would undermine the [[capitalism]], the [[Time-and-Motion Lords]] prevented its development in [[human]] economic space, leading to the creation of the first official [[time machine]] being pushed to the [[50th century]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'')
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* Katastrophen notes [[transmat]] has been used since the [[21st century]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Seeds of Death (TV story)|The Seeds of Death]]'')
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* For ''[[In Search of Ancient Mu]]'', Kryptosa investigated [[Vo'lach Prime]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Ghost Devices (novel)|Ghost Devices]]'') and [[Yemaya 4|Yemaya]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sleepy (novel)|Sleepy]]'') as well as "[[Nine Gallifreys|a dead world at the centre of the galaxy, which legends claim was the birthplace of the very first humanoid civilization]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dead Romance (novel)|Dead Romance]]'')
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* [[Tyler's Folly]] and its continued status are later mentioned in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'', ''[[Beige Planet Mars (novel)|Beige Planet Mars]]'', ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'', and ''[[Dead Romance (novel)|Dead Romance]]''.
   
 
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* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/down.htm The Cloister Library: '''Down''']
 
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20021212084007/http://www.menace.ndo.co.uk/loz/down.htm '''Down''' The Director's Cut by Lawrence Miles] via [http://web.archive.org/ Internet Archive - The Wayback Machine]
  
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20021212084007/http://www.menace.ndo.co.uk/loz/down.htm '''Down''' The Director's Cut by Lawrence Miles] via [http://web.archive.org/ Internet Archive - The Wayback Machine]
 
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Revision as of 10:53, 15 April 2020

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prose stub

Down was the fifth Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures novel. It featured a reappearance of the People, who were introduced in Ben Aaronovitch's The Also People.

Publisher's summary

Mankind expects pain. However it seems to outsiders.

Tyler's Folly: a colony world on the unattractive side of Earthspace, a planet wracked by earthquakes and crawling with off-world bodysnatchers. When the local authorities pull a bedraggled Professor Bernice Summerfield out of the ocean in an off-limits 'quake zone, they naturally want to know what she is doing there... but the professor can only mumble something about woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers.

According to Bernice, the planet is hollow, its interior inhabited by warring tribes of cavemen and strangely unconvincing prehistoric monsters. Some dark and ancient god rules this underground kingdom -- albeit a dark and ancient god with a penchant for thirties pulp adventures and Saturday morning action serials.

Can Bernice's claims be true? Is Tyler's Folly really under threat from an ageless subterranean horror? And why does so much of her story revolve around the utterly amoral alien known as !X...?

Plot

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Characters

References

Books

Law and order

Locations

Organisations

Planets

Psychology

  • Teleportaphobia also known as "Molecular Vertigo" is described here as the fear of matter transmission.

Species

  • Katastrophen is reminded of buffo frogs.

Vehicles

  • The SSSSSSS submarine uses warp drive but goes through oceans between planets instead of space.

Notes

  • The introduction of Down listed a web address (www.ndirect.co.uk/shebeen) stated to contain background material to the novel. Though the link is no longer active, the novel's glossary, footnotes, and appendices were archived here.
  • Down re-introduces the People. This includes Ben Aaronovitch's unique pronunciations for their names; a full explanation can be found in the introduction to The Also People.
  • The submarine was originally intended to be black, but after the cover artist rendered it as pink, Miles rewrote its colour.[1]

Continuity

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  1. ↑ Sci-Fi London Interview
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