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|image=Timeless Passages cover.jpg | |image = Timeless Passages cover.jpg | ||
|series=''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' | |series =''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' | ||
|story number= 30 | |story number = 30 | ||
|range | |range = BSSR | ||
|series in range = Series 7 (BFBS) | |series in range = Series 7 (BFBS) | ||
|series number in range = 7 | |series number in range = 7 | ||
|number in series = 2 | |number in series = 2 | ||
|number=2 | |number = 2 | ||
|main character= [[Bernice Summerfield]] | |main character = [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] | ||
|featuring= | |featuring = | ||
|enemy= | |enemy = [[Robot (Timeless Passages)|Robot]] | ||
|setting= | |setting = [[Labyrinth of Kerykeion]], [[2606]] | ||
|writer= | |writer = Daniel O'Mahony | ||
|director= [[John Ainsworth]] | |director = [[John Ainsworth]] | ||
|producer= [[Simon Guerrier]] | |producer = [[Simon Guerrier]] | ||
|music = [[Simon Robinson]] | |music = [[Simon Robinson]] | ||
|sound = Simon Robinson | |sound = Simon Robinson | ||
|cover = [[Adrian Salmon]] | |cover = [[Adrian Salmon]] | ||
|publisher= Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|release date= | |release date = August 2006 | ||
|format= 1 CD | |format = 1 CD<br/>Download | ||
|production code= BFPCD30 | |production code = BFPCD30 | ||
|isbn= ISBN 1-84435-190- | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-84435-190-9 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-83868-666-6 (digital) | ||
|prev= The Tartarus Gate (audio story) | |prev = The Tartarus Gate (audio story) | ||
|next= The Worst Thing in the World (audio story) | |next = The Worst Thing in the World (audio story) | ||
|epcount = 1 | |||
}} | |||
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the thirtieth ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' audio story released by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was the second story of the seventh season. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the thirtieth ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' audio story released by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was the second story of the seventh season. | ||
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From tomorrow, it's under new management. | From tomorrow, it's under new management. | ||
[[Bernice Summerfield|Professor Bernice Summerfield]] is sent to acquire some of the rarest books for the [[Braxiatel Collection]] before the new corporate owners bulldoze their way in. | |||
She's hoping for a quiet time searching the archives. Some chance. Soon she's investigating a horrible murder, and is caught up in a last-ditch scheme to save the entire library. | She's hoping for a quiet time searching the archives. Some chance. Soon she's investigating a horrible [[murder]], and is caught up in a last-ditch scheme to save the entire library. | ||
There's a vicious, insane killer [[cyborg]] on Benny's heels. And then ancient subterranean powers begin to stir... | There's a vicious, insane killer [[cyborg]] on Benny's heels. And then ancient subterranean powers begin to stir... | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
''to be | With the largest private [[library]] of [[human]] publications outside of [[Earth]] due to be closed by its new owners, [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] is sent there by [[Bev Tarrant|Bev]] to purchase as many items as possible for the [[Braxiatel Collection]]. She meets [[Samuel Wolfe|Sam Wolfe]], a [[lawyer]] for [[Omnispatial Mercantile Dynamics|OMD]], the company which now owns [[planet (Timeless Passages)|the planet]], as well as his infant daughter, [[Jean Wolfe|Jean]]. They are welcomed to the [[Labyrinth of Kerykeion]] by the [[chief librarian]], [[Archibald Spool|Archie Spool]], who claims that Bev contacted the library despite Benny having been told that it was the other way round. | ||
Spool shows the building to Benny and explains that its structure keeps decay at bay, ensuring that the books are not damages by the passage of [[time]], and that this is why OMD have purchased the planet. She meets the [[librarian]] Hermione whilst looking through the rarest and most valuable books and asks Spool why he did not accept the [[Technocult]]'s offer of copying the contents of the library, deducing that he wants Bev to purchase the entire planet and promising to ask her in the morning. Later, Benny is awoken from her [[sleep]] by a knock at her door and finds Jean crying in the corridor. She takes him to Sam's room and finds him cut into pieces. | |||
Although Benny wants to investigate Sam's death, believing that OMD or the [[Technocult]] might be responsible, Spool puts her in charge of looking after Jean. Hermione arrives and leads her into the tunnels to the [[Eidolon]]s, living [[statue]]s to whom Benny hands over Jean for her protection at Hermione's request. The two of them then run from an [[assassin]] [[robot]] armed with numerous [[blade]]s and are separated, with Benny running into Spool and learning that she has been gone for four days and that there is no librarian named Hermione. The robot catches up with Benny and attacks Spool, retreating when the Eidolons arrive and take the dying Spool away as he shouts to Benny that "the writing side wins history". | |||
Benny finds Hermione, her [[memory|memories]] hazy, at a [[pool]] with people using the library's properties to heal themselves, including Sam. When the robot arrives, Benny runs with Sam and learns that he brought Jean to the library because she has an [[illness]] in her [[bone]]s which is slowly killing her and that he has transferred the planet to her and her descendants in perpetuity. Benny has worked out that the library is a [[time machine]] and warns Sam that he will die if he goes upstairs, but he goes so as to avoid damaging the [[timeline]] and is killed by the robot. The robot reveals that he is from the [[far future]], hired by the descendants of OMD to kill Jean, and Benny destroys it with the [[Blinovitch Limitation Effect]] by throwing his own head from the future at him. | |||
The Eidolons collect the remains of the robot and are told by Benny to ensure that the head is taken back to the beginning of the library to be used as a [[plant pot]]. She gets Hermione to knock on her past self's door to find Sam's body and says goodbye to Jean, who will go on to become Hermione and bring Benny to the library by writing to Bev. Benny and Hermione agree that the books that Bev has purchased will remain on permanent loan to the library and the [[adjudicator]]s search for the robot, believing him to still be at large. Benny returns to the Collection, wanting to spend some time curled up with a good book. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[Hermione Wolfe|Hermione]] - [[Katarina Olsson]] | * [[Hermione Wolfe|Hermione]] - [[Katarina Olsson]] | ||
== | == Crew == | ||
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* Cover Art - [[Adrian Salmon]] | |||
* Director - [[John Ainsworth]] | |||
* Executive Producer - [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]] | |||
* Music and Sound Design - [[Simon Robinson]] | |||
* Producer - [[Simon Guerrier]] | |||
* Writer - [[Daniel O'Mahony]] | |||
== Worldbuilding == | |||
* Benny and Sam drink [[wine]] paid for by [[Bev Tarrant|Bev]]. | |||
* Sam works for [[Omnispatial Mercantile Dynamics]]. | |||
* Benny leaves [[Bernice Summerfield's diaries|her diary]] at the [[spaceport]]. | |||
* Benny featured in several issues of ''[[Little Archaeologist]]''. | |||
* Spool wonders if Jean is a [[paralegal]]. | |||
* [[Max (Timeless Passages)|Max]] works at the library. | |||
* The library's books include: | |||
** ''[[The Atrocity Exhibition]]'', published by [[Doubleday]] and supposedly pulped. | |||
** The only known extant copy of ''[[Gay Bulgaria]]''. | |||
** ''[[The Eigenblick Presidency]]'', written by [[Robert Darlick]]. | |||
** ''[[Aristotle's Poetics Part III: Smokey is the Bandit]]''. | |||
* Benny mentions the [[Library of Alexandria]] and the [[Splendid Biblio-Spiroplex of the Ten Billion Sapiens of Zumos Prime]], which was accidentally inhaled by a [[space aardvark]]. | |||
* According to Benny, the [[Technocult]] could store the entirety of the library on the inside of a [[ball bearing]]. | |||
* Benny mentions [[Julie Andrews]] and [[Al Pacino]]. | |||
* Benny is a big fan of [[Occam's razor]]. | |||
* Benny believes that the robot's design looks Technocult or [[American Caliphate]]. | |||
* Benny mentions ''[[Goldilocks and the Three Bears]]'', ''[[Little Red Riding Hood|Red Riding Hood]]'', ''[[Struwwelpeter|Shock-Headed Peter]]'' and ''[[Chicken Little]]''. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* This audio drama was recorded on [[15 May (production)|15 May]] [[2006 (production)|2006]]. | * This audio drama was recorded on [[15 May (production)|15 May]] [[2006 (production)|2006]]. | ||
* Archie quotes ''[[wikipedia:House of Cards|House of Cards]]'', saying, "You might very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment." | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
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[[Category:2006 audio stories]] | [[Category:2006 audio stories]] | ||
[[Category:Stories set in 2606]] | [[Category:Stories set in 2606]] | ||
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