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Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 Walking to Babylon
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'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.'

Source: Doctor Who Guide (http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_na71.htm). Sighted: 4/8/2011

Notes

  • Dedication: For the fangirls - keep writing, keep speaking up, keep speaking out.

  • Epigraph: Halfway round the world
    She can't remember if it's
    Samhain or Beltane
    Winter or Spring...
    'Walking to Babylon' by Comes The Trickster.
    From the HvLP: All the Way From Heaven (2465)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      New Adventures ,
      1998 .
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      Extent: 257p.
      Note/s:
      • On Verso: Bernice Summerfield originally created by Paul Cornell.
      ISBN: 0426205219
      Series: y separately published work icon New Adventures : The Bernice Summerfield Adventures NA; The Bernice Summerfield Adventures New Adventures (publisher), London : New Adventures , 1997-1999 Z1293434 1997 series - publisher novel science fiction The New Adventures series is a spin-off from the Doctor Who: The New Adventures series and features the fictional archaeologist Professor Bernice Summerfield, a companion of the seventh Doctor.

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  • Also sound recording.
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