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series=[[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures | Virgin <br> Bernice Summerfield New Adventures]] | | series=[[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures | Virgin <br> Bernice Summerfield New Adventures]] | | ||
number= 10 | | number= 10 | | ||
main character= [[Bernice Summerfield]]| | |||
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enemy= [[WiRgo!xu]] and [[!Ci!ci-tel]] | | enemy= [[WiRgo!xu]] and [[!Ci!ci-tel]] | | ||
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* The People first appeared in [[NA]]: ''[[The Also People]]''. | * The People first appeared in [[NA]]: ''[[The Also People]]''. | ||
* Benny agreed to become an agent of The People in ''[[Oh No It Isn't!]]''. | * Benny agreed to become an agent of The People in [[BNA]]: ''[[Oh No It Isn't!]]''. | ||
*The People make a deal regarding time travel in ''[[Dead Romance]]''. | *The People make a deal regarding time travel in [[BNA]]: ''[[Dead Romance]]''. | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
[http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_na71.htm Doctor Who Reference Guide - Detailed Synopsis: Walking to Babylon] | *[http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_na71.htm Doctor Who Reference Guide - Detailed Synopsis: '''Walking to Babylon'''] | ||
[[Category:Bernice Summerfield novels]] | [[Category:Bernice Summerfield novels]] | ||
[[Category:1998 novels]] | [[Category:1998 novels]] | ||
Revision as of 14:05, 11 May 2008
Publisher's Summary
'I'm scared of letting all these people down. Like the whole human race. At least if I get blown up as well, they can say I died heroically. Assuming I ever existed at all.'
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, 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.
Characters
- Is studying some D'nasian poetry.
- Once had sex with some Citdbtbeds.
- Speaks through Benny’s porter Joseph.
- Is a time sensitive and thus was able to walk The Path.
- Collects Benny from St Oscar’s.
- Spokesperson for the Temporal Interest Group.
Ninan (High Princess)
- Basically the head whore.
- But she was a virgin (giving herself only to the gods).
- Is a veteran of the People’s war with ‘them’.
- Is a veteran of the People’s war with ‘them’.
- Aged to death by temporal energy stored in John Lafayette.
- The drone accompanying !Ci!ci-tel and WiRgo!xu, the drone is also a veteran of the war.
References
- The People can’t develop Time travel because of their treaty with the Time Lords.
- Temporal Flexibility is the ability build up in frequent time travelers to not store up potential temporal energy (as a result of some forms of time travel).
- The Path is an unstable temporal path leading back to ancient Babylon.
- The People decide to send back a Singularity Bomb to shut down the path, which would also destroy Babylon.
- Bernice mentions the planet Jalkejai.
Notes
- This novel was adapted for Big Finish by Jacqueline Rayner.
Continuity
- The People first appeared in NA: The Also People.
- Benny agreed to become an agent of The People in BNA: Oh No It Isn't!.
- The People make a deal regarding time travel in BNA: Dead Romance.
