Walking to Babylon
Title: Walking to Babylon
Author: Kate Orman
Main Character(s): Bernice "Benny" Summerfield
Main Enemy: WiRgo!xu
!Ci!ci-tel
Setting: St. Oscar's University, Dellah, 2594
The People's Worldsphere, 2594
Planet MD 20879, 2594
Babylon, 12 December 1901
Babylon, 570 BC
Cover Blurb:
'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 ever in utopia they still have their problems.
An illegal time-travel experiment threatens a war that 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.
Author: Kate Orman
Main Character(s): Bernice "Benny" Summerfield
Main Enemy: WiRgo!xu
!Ci!ci-tel
Setting: St. Oscar's University, Dellah, 2594
The People's Worldsphere, 2594
Planet MD 20879, 2594
Babylon, 12 December 1901
Babylon, 570 BC
Cover Blurb:
'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 ever in utopia they still have their problems.
An illegal time-travel experiment threatens a war that 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.