A Life Worth Living is a collection of short stories edited by Simon Guerrier. Released in 2004, it is the fourth Bernice Summerfield anthology published by Big Finish and tells of the aftermath of the war with the Fifth Axis.
Stories within[]
- Misplaced Spring by Paul Cornell
- Welcome to the Machine by Sin Deniz
- Final Draft by Cameron Mason
- Against Gardens by Eddie Robson
- A Summer Affair by Joseph Lidster
- Denial by Ian Mond
- Sex Secrets of the Robot Replicants by Philip Purser-Hallard
- The Blame of the Nose by Ben Woodhams
- Reparation by Gregg Smith
- Nothing Up My Sleeve by Richard Salter
- Buried Alive by Kate Orman
- There Never Need Be Longing In Your Eyes by Ian Farrington
- Mentioning the War by Nick Wallace
- Fragments by Stewart Sheargold
Publisher's summary[]
Fourteen brand-new short stories about Bernice Summerfield (some-time adventurer, even-less-time academic) and her extended "family". There's Jason Kane (ex-husband, ex-buccaneer, ex-author of xeno-porn) and Irving Braxiatel (employer, Renaissance Man, sneaky devil). There's Bev, Adrian, Ms Jones and Peter. There's Hass, the new gardener, just arrived from Mars. There's the invasion of new students. And, inevitably, there's the mysteries, murders, mayhem and major weirdness that happen whenever Benny gets out of bed.
The war is over. The Braxiatel Collection is back to normal. Better than that, people are all making more of an effort to rebuild, to get on, to re-establish the Collection at the forefront of academic excellence. Benny and Jason are back together. Life is good.
It's not going to last, is it?
Soon Benny is up to her eyeballs in strange deaths, sinister cults, peculiar love affairs and a Collection full of people who haven't yet stopped fighting.
Spend a whole year with Benny!
Sources[]
- Goodreads