Walking to Babylon (novel): Difference between revisions

{{Infobox Story

|image= Walking to Babylon.jpg  

|series= [[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures|Virgin <br /> Bernice Summerfield New Adventures]]

|number= 10

|main character= [[Bernice Summerfield]]

|featuring=

|enemy= [[WiRgo!xu]] and [[!Ci!ci-tel]]  

|setting= {{il|[[St. Oscar's University]], [[Dellah]], [[2594]]|[[The People]]’s [[Worldsphere]], [[2594]]|Planet [[MD 20879]], [[2594]]|[[Babylon]], [[12 December]] [[1901]]|[[Babylon]], [[BC#6th century BC|570 B.C.]]}}

|writer= [[Kate Orman]]  

|publisher= Virgin Books  

|release date= [[3 February (releases)|3 February]], [[1998 (releases)|1998]]

|format= Paperback Book; 14 Chapters, 256 Pages  

|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20521-9  

|prev= Tempest (novel)  

|next= Oblivion (novel)}}

'''''Walking to Babylon''''' is the tenth [[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures]] novel. It features [[Bernice Summerfield]] and [[the People]]. It was the third novel to be adapted by [[Big Finish Productions]] into a full cast audio story, which was released in [[November (releases)|November]] [[1998 (releases)|1998]].  

When Bernice Summerfield visits the People — an incredibly advanced civilisation living in a [[Dyson Sphere]] — she discovers that even in utopia, they still have their problems.

 

An illegal time travel experiment threatens a war which could destroy them all. Rather than risk it, the People and their ultra-powerful computer, [[God (The Also People)|God]], are prepared to eradicate the source of the problem — the ancient city of Babylon. But such action would involve the death of a quarter of a million human beings, and do incalculable damage to Earth's history.

[[Babylon]] — and the [[human]] race — have one hope. Benny returns to the cradle of civilisation to try and stop the interference. She has just one week to prevent a catastrophe that could mean she will never be born. Her only assistance comes from a Victorian linguist who has stumbled across the experiment himself. But he's no help at all — even though he has a power neither of them suspects.

<li>An Invitation from God</li>

<li>The Party's Over</li>

* [[WiRgo!xu]]  

== References ==

* Bernice once had sex with some [[Citdbtbed]]s...by shaking hands with them.

* [[God (The Also People)|God]] speaks through Benny’s porter [[Joseph (android)|Joseph]].

* [[Clarence]] collects Benny from [[St. Oscar's University|St Oscar's]].

* [[!Ci!ci-tel]] is a veteran of the People’s war with "them".  He is aged to death by temporal energy stored in John Lafayette.

* [[Bernice Summerfield]] is studying some [[D'nasian]] poetry.

* {{dwrefguide|who_na71.htm|Walking to Babylon}}

* {{whoniverse|bs10.php|Walking to Babylon}}

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[[Category:Stories set on Dellah]]