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enemy= [[WiRgo!xu]] and [[!Ci!ci-tel]] | | enemy= [[WiRgo!xu]] and [[!Ci!ci-tel]] | | ||
year= [[Dellah]], [[St. Oscar's University]] [[2594]] <br> [[The People]]’s [[Worldsphere]], [[2594]] <br> [[MD 20879]], [[2594]] <br> [[Earth]], [[Babylon]], [[December]] 12th, [[1901]] <br> [[Earth]], [[Babylon]], [[570 | year= [[Dellah]], [[St. Oscar's University]] [[2594]] <br> [[The People]]’s [[Worldsphere]], [[2594]] <br> [[MD 20879]], [[2594]] <br> [[Earth]], [[Babylon]], [[December]] 12th, [[1901]] <br> [[Earth]], [[Babylon]], [[Early_human_history#6th_century_BC|570 B.C.]] | | ||
writer= [[Kate Orman]] | | writer= [[Kate Orman]] | | ||
publisher= [[Virgin Books]] | | publisher= [[Virgin Books]] | | ||
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''''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.'''' | ''''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. | 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. | 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. | ||
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*[[John Lafayette]] | *[[John Lafayette]] | ||
**Is a [[time sensitive]] and thus was able to walk [[ | **Is a [[time sensitive]] and thus was able to walk the [[Time Path]]. | ||
*[[Clarence]] | *[[Clarence]] | ||
**Collects Benny from St | **Collects Benny from [[St. Oscar's University|St Oscar's]]. | ||
*[[Cin-ta!x]] | *[[Cin-ta!x]] | ||
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*[[Ninan]] (High Princess) | *[[Ninan]] (High Princess) | ||
** | **Loved to hear of her guests' travels, but could never leave her temple. | ||
*[[WiRgo!xu]] | *[[WiRgo!xu]] | ||
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*[[!Ci!ci-tel]] | *[[!Ci!ci-tel]] | ||
**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. | **Aged to death by temporal energy stored in John Lafayette. | ||
