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The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis (novel) (edit)
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|featuring = [[Ruth]], [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]], [[Irving Braxiatel|Irving]] | |featuring = [[Ruth]], [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]], [[Irving Braxiatel|Irving]] | ||
|enemy = | |enemy = | ||
|setting = [[Bubastis]], [[2610s]] | |setting = [[Star Seasons]] and [[Bubastis]], [[2610s]] | ||
|writer = [[Xanna Eve Chown]] | |writer = [[Xanna Eve Chown]] | ||
|read by = [[Lisa Bowerman]] | |read by = [[Lisa Bowerman]] | ||
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To make matters worse, Jack suddenly finds himself on the wrong side of the law and Ruth has brain-ache from ingesting forbidden historical knowledge. Worse still, Bernice has promised to write a book of poetry that's due to be published in a week... and she can't think of anything to rhyme with "Bubastis". | To make matters worse, Jack suddenly finds himself on the wrong side of the law and Ruth has brain-ache from ingesting forbidden historical knowledge. Worse still, Bernice has promised to write a book of poetry that's due to be published in a week... and she can't think of anything to rhyme with "Bubastis". | ||
== Chapter titles == | |||
# Before | |||
# Legion | |||
# Star Seasons | |||
# Bil's Office | |||
# Experimental Library | |||
# Underground | |||
# Press Transporter | |||
# Ruth's Brain | |||
# Media Buzz | |||
# Storeroom Two | |||
# Neon's Office | |||
# The Cats | |||
# Girls' Dorm | |||
# Swamp Walk | |||
# Bal Village | |||
# Mina Gloap | |||
# Storeroom Three | |||
# Punishment | |||
# Cat Twenty-Three | |||
# Ultimatum | |||
# Leaving Bubastis | |||
# Friends of Stone | |||
# After | |||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
''to be | Whilst working at the [[White Rabbit (Legion)|White Rabbit]] in the hopes of seeing [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] is shown a message by [[Irving Braxiatel|Irving]] in which [[Bil Bil Gloap|Professor Bil Bil Gloap]] asks her to write a [[book]] of [[poetry]] that she has already written in the future. She, [[Ruth]] and [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]] head to the [[Star Seasons]] resort in [[Irverfield|Irving's shuttle]] and, after taking the tour twice, they meet with Bil. He tells them that his niece, [[Mina Gloap|Mina]], went to the nearby [[Bubastis]] with [[Neon Tsara|Professor Neon Tsara]] three weeks previously and disappeared five days ago. | ||
Benny volunteers to travel to Bubastis to find Mina, leaving the matter of the poetry book until later. Jack goes to the [[Experimental Library]], curious about the lack of attention given to it during the tour, and is soon joined by Ruth, who receives a message from Benny asking her to find information on the [[Bubastian|Ancient Bubastians]]. Whilst Ruth accesses the virtual books on Bubastian history and has the information downloaded into her mind, Jack visits Bil and learns that he saw Benny's yet-to-be-published book thanks to the Experimental Library. He then finds a [[trapdoor]] near the library, takes the [[Future Retrieval Device]] from the room beneath and hurries back to the shuttle with Ruth. | |||
''to be completed'' | |||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
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== References == | == References == | ||
* The [[Bal]] are the largest [[insect]]s on [[Bubastis]]. They are [[mammal-phobia|mammal-phobic]]. | * The [[Bal]] are the largest [[insect]]s on [[Bubastis]]. They are [[mammal-phobia|mammal-phobic]]. | ||
* Jack has been offered the chance to buy eight illegally-imported [[micro-puppy|micro-puppies]]. | |||
* Bil is an [[etymologist]]. His field is [[diachronic linguistics]]. | |||
* [[Mina Gloap]] is the daughter of Bil's [[Bil Bil Gloap's brother|brother]]. | |||
* Bil has a [[photo cube]] of Mina. | |||
* [[Uphill]] [[retirement|retired]] as [[Dean]] a year ago. He moved to a [[village]] near [[Shining Lake]] on [[Altan]]. | |||
* Benny and Bil were stuck on [[Salva Noctra]] for a time. | |||
* The [[Traditional Winter Library]] is based on a private collection from [[Earth]] circa [[1900]]. | |||
* Ruth remembers Benny showing her a [[20th century]] book called ''[[Zombies and Shit]]''. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
'' | * Irving now has [[Irverfield|a shuttle]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Everybody Loves Irving (audio story)|Everybody Loves Irving]]'') | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||