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tears of the oracle
the new adventures (virgin) #081
Written by: Justin Richards
Publication Date: 17 June 1999
ISBN: 0 426 20533 2
Pages: 277
back cover blurb
'Benny, you're ill. Let us help you. We want to help you. Really we do. This paranoia, these delusions. What you've done - it's driven you insane. Nobody wants to hurt you. We're your friends.'
On Dellah, the shattered former home of Bernice Summerfield, only the Advanced Research centre survives - the last remnant of the once famous university. But it's under siege from fanatical groups of religious inquisitors, searching for new converts or dangerous heretics.
Benny would have to be mad to go back.
Jason Kane, Bernice's one-time husband and all-time opportunist, has found the ancient remains of the Oracle of the Lost on an obscure planetoid known only as KS-159. Or so he says.
Benny would have to be mad to believe him.
The mysterious Irving Braxiatel is looking for somewhere quiet to house his huge collection of... everything.
Benny would have to be made to suggest KS-159.
The Oracle of the Lost, legend says, can answer any question. But the cryptic answers she gives are never helpful, and often dangerous.
Benny would have to mad to reawaken her.
Or ask a question.
Or believe the answer.