Where Angels Fear

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Where Angels Fear
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Author Rebecca Levene and Simon Winstone
Cover artistJon Sullivan
Series Doctor Who book:
Virgin New Adventures
Release number
17
SubjectFeaturing:
Bernice Summerfield
Publisher Virgin Books
Publication date
December 1998
ISBN 0-426-20530-8
Preceded by Beige Planet Mars  
Followed by The Mary-Sue Extrusion  

Where Angels Fear is an original novel by Rebecca Levene and Simon Winstone featuring the fictional archaeologist Bernice Summerfield. The New Adventures were a spin-off from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who .

Levene had been editor of the New Adventures for some years, with Winstone latterly her deputy and then her successor. Where Angels Fear was commissioned as Levene handed over to Winstone and it sets up a story arc that ran through to the final New Adventure, Twilight of the Gods .

Synopsis

Bernice's home planet of Dellah, once a place of learning, is being overrun by a new religious movement. Closer investigation reveals the major powers of the universe are literally running in fear from said movement.

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