I wrap up my recent catching up on Bernice Summerfield by jumping ahead — or backwards, depending on how you look at it. Treasury is a special audiobook for Benny’s twentieth anniversary at Big Finish (the character made her audio…
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The fourth Bernice Summerfield box set has the pretty generic title of New Frontiers, but it might better have been called Advent, as the three stories take place during Legion’s winter holiday season, with the last story taking place on the…
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Legion establishes a new set-up for the Bernice Summerfield range. Benny is now living on the planet Legion, the furthest planet out in the galaxy, joined by her new friend and pupil, Ruth. Legion is also home to Irving Braxiatel…
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Big Finish may borrow from televised Doctor Who to excess, but it’s actually pretty restrained when it comes to pulling from tie-ins, even itself. So there’s always a little bit of frisson when Big Finish “crosses the streams” as it…
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I had sworn off Big Finish’s Ace/Mel strand after suffering through three mediocre stories in a row, but we here at Unreality Towers are unified in one belief: there’s no better writer of Star Trek novels than Una McCormack. And…
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At the end of Epoch, Bernice Summerfield received a message from Irving Braxiatel telling her that her son Peter was on a distant planet called Legion; Road Trip, the next box set in the series, consists of three standalone stories…
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Hour of the Cybermen (or The Hour of the Cybermen, as Colin Baker claims when he reads the credits) is the final instalment of 2018’s Sixth Doctor trilogy in the Doctor Who main range, but it’s also the middle instalment…
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Big Finish continues its range of The Avengers adaptations with Too Many Targets, a script by John Dorney based on a 1990 novel by John Peel and Dave Rogers. The selling point of the novel, and thus the audio drama,…
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Ian Potter is particularly good at two things as a writer. (Well, I reckon probably more than two, but let’s put the others to the side for the moment.) One is emulating the TV of the 1960s on audio: his…
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It’s been a while since I’ve listened to an instalment of Doctor Who: The Early Adventures, but it’s on its fifth series now, so someone must be. This series pulled me back in with the promise of a continuous “missing…
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Epoch marks a new, well, epoch in the ongoing adventures of Professor Bernice Summerfield. 2011 saw the range transition to the same format most of Big Finish’s other Doctor Who spin-off ranges had adopted, a sequence of box sets. The…
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Continuing her adventures in the mysterious Year 54, Bernice Summerfield is hired by a historian (an illegal occupation) to go on an archaeological expedition (an illegal activity). A previous expedition went to this planet — and everyone seemingly died. Like…
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Ravenous 2 continues one of the Eighth Doctor’s two different sagas — overlapping in production if not internal chronology. One may recall that I was sceptical about Ravenous 1, and one contributing factor was the depiction of the Ravenous themselves….
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After you blow up the universe (potentially), where do you go next? Year Zero provides a soft reset for Big Finish’s Bernice Summerfield range, but also seemingly one for the entire universe. Her time ring now basically a hunk of…
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This is it! Escaping the Future ties off not only Resurrecting the Past and Present Danger, but plots going back seven years. Why has Irving Braxiatel manipulated the lives of Bernice Summerfield, Peter, Jason Kane, and everyone else at the…
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