#ALSO I think brax in books in cooler and more chracterized than audio brax bc there is simply more room to explore his character

[stillthesunkenstars]

good evening bestie i want to get into benny but i'm not quite sure where to start (i've made a list of stuff i found on reddit that people said were essential) and as you're like. the staple of the bernice summerfield fanbase i've come to ask for advice. this is the list of vnas i assume i need to read before i start listening to the audios:

Love and War, The Highest Science (?), Theatre of War, All-Consuming Fire, The Shadow of the Scourge, The Dark Flame, Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code, The Hesitation Deviation, Set Piece (?), Human Nature, Original Sin, The Dying Days, Buried Treasures

if you like, could you maybe recommend anything else/point out if anything's missing/surplus? considering the fact that the dweu is as convoluted as wired earphones in a pocket, i felt like i should ask a person who knows about this stuff, and this fandom consists of like 5 people so you were the first one who came to mind. thank you so much, and have a great day! love your art btw ♥

(Awww thank you so much!!) To be honest I don’t think Benny series itself requires any vnas to read? While the VNAs have a lot of good Benny content reading the BSNAs (mostly set on dellah) would link much more directly to the big finish series I think, also for the BF series most of the plot are in the novellas and the anthologies so make sure u don’t miss those!!

Additional stuff… I think reading theatre of war and dragon’s wrath (book version for this!! The audio doesn’t have brax also the book links directly to the ending of gallifrey 4.2 disassembled which has brax backstory with dr who) which are benny and brax’s two first meetings would give a lot of context for Stuff (especially why brax reacted so strongly about ‘the good soldiers’ in life during wartime)

Most of the cast are introduced in the BF series itself but Jason has a lot of backstory in Dave Stone’s VNAs and BSNAs which I’m very interested in!! But not yet had the time to catch up on so I recommend asking someone else for him

Also if you want to ask further u can join my Benny discord server (there’s a Benny timeline there and Benny book links and stuff also I’m having finals these 2 weeks so I May be busy.. orz)