Walking to Babylon (novel)

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Walking to Babylon is the seventy-first Virgin 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 1998.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

"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.

Chapter titles[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Chapter 0: An Invitation From God
  • Chapter 1: In Too Deep
  • Chapter 2: Basket Case
  • Chapter 3: Language
  • Chapter 4: The Party's Over
  • Chapter 5: Past Shock
  • Chapter 6: The Evening After the Afternoon Before
  • Chapter 7: Head Above Water
  • Chapter 8: The Shortest-Lived Profession
  • Chapter 9: Helpless
  • Chapter 10: Looking
  • Chapter 11: The Plan
  • Chapter 12: Rain and Snow
  • Chapter 13: Walking on Home

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Biology[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Bernice once had sex with some Citdbtbeds by shaking hands with them.

Groups[[edit] | [edit source]]

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Literature[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Bernice Summerfield is studying some D'nasian poetry.

Planets[[edit] | [edit source]]

Time travel[[edit] | [edit source]]

Weapons[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The People decide to send back a Singularity Bomb to shut down the path, which would also destroy Babylon.

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Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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