Collected Works (Bernice Summerfield anthology)

Collected Works is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Nick Wallace, featuring Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Collected Works

First edition
Cover artist	Lee Sullivan
Series	Doctor Who book: Bernice Summerfield
Release number	8
Subject	Featuring: Bernice Summerfield
Publisher	Big Finish Productions
Publication date	September 2006
ISBN	1-84435-241-2
Preceded by	Something Changed
Followed by	Old Friends

Although an anthology of short stories, the individual stories are somewhat linked, creating an overarching narrative for the book. Collected Works takes place concurrently with Season 7 of the Bernice Summerfield audio plays range, and contains references to several of the plays.

Stories

Title	Author
Work in Progress	Nick Wallace
The Tears of Laughter	David N. Smith
Perspectives: Tribal Reservations	Philip Purser-Hallard
Outside the Wall	Sin Deniz
Key	Jonathan Blum
The Inconstant Gallery	James Swallow
Perspectives: Quire as Folk	Philip Purser-Hallard
Cabinets of Curiosities	Mags L. Halliday
Anightintheninthage	Lance Parkin
Grey's Anatomy	Simon A. Forward
The Tree that Was	Steven Kitson
Perspectives: Forging a Bond	Philip Purser-Hallard
The Two-Level Effect	Eddie Robson
Let There Be Stars	Mark Michalowski
Sleeptalking	John Fletcher
Perspectives: Intermissions	Philip Purser-Hallard
False Security	Nick Walters
The Painting on the Stair	Simon Bucher-Jones
The Cost for a Collection	Ian Mond
Lock	Kate Orman
Perspectives: The Injured Party	Philip Purser-Hallard
Mother's Ruin	Dale Smith
Future Relations	Philip Purser-Hallard & Nick Wallace

• The alien scholars "The Quire" were created by contributing author Philip Purser-Hallard, working closely with editor Nick Wallace. Each member of the Quire was named after an archaic bookbinding term.
• Cabinets of Curiosities by Mags Halliday features Freidrich I's Amber Room, which vanished under mysterious circumstances.

Synopsis

Following on from the events of The Crystal of Cantus, Collected Works details a year in the life of the Braxiatel Collection following its founder's disappearance. The staff of the Collection have to cope with their new place in the universe, and a visit from a team of post-human scholars from the future, called the Quire. As the year progresses, it becomes clear that even though he has left them, Braxiatel's influence can still be felt on the Collection.

External links

• Big Finish Productions - Collected Works
• Philip Purser Hallard's original background document for the Quire