Twilight of the Gods (Clapham and Miller novel)

Twilight of the Gods is a novel by Mark Clapham and Jon de Burgh Miller from the Virgin New Adventures with the fictional archaeologist Bernice Summerfield as its main character. The New Adventures were based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Twilight of the Gods was the twenty-third and final New Adventure featuring only Bernice after Virgin lost the licence to publish original Doctor Who fiction.

Twilight of the Gods

Author	Mark Clapham and Jon de Burgh Miller
Cover artist	Fred Gambino
Series	Doctor Who book: The New Adventures
Release number	23
Subject	Featuring: Bernice Summerfield
Publisher	Virgin Books
Publication date	December 1999
ISBN	0-426-20536-7
Preceded by	The Joy Device
Followed by	The Dead Men Diaries

The novel features the return of the Ferutu, thought destroyed after the events of the Missing Adventure Cold Fusion.

Writing

Clapham had written for the range previously and brought on board new writer Miller as he was busy working on The Taking of Planet 5. Clapham himself described the book as, "a horrendously rushed job, and a lot of the problems come from having too many cooks at the plotting stage – we had to reconcile all the Benny/Gods threads that needed wrapping up, satisfy Peter Darvill-Evans' requirements for the last book, fit with a title which had already been established, and somehow do a couple of ideas of our own if we could fit them in."

Plot

God-like beings have shattered the peace of Dellah, and threaten to spread chaos across the galaxy. Benny and Jason Kane return to the planet in a desperate last attempt to stop them, before the planet is destroyed forever.

External links

• Twilight of the Gods title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database