Walking to Babylon (novel)

Publisher's Summary
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.

Characters
Bernice Summerfield
 * Is studying some D'nasian poetry.

God
 * Speaks through Benny’s porter Joseph.

John Lafayette
 * Is a time sensitive and thus was able to walk The Path.

Clarence
 * Collects Benny from St Oscar’s.

Cin-ta!x
 * Spokesperson for the Temporal Interest Group.

Ninan (High Princess)
 * Basically the head whore.
 * But she was a virgin (giving herself only to the gods).

WiRgo!xu
 * Is a veteran of the People’s war with ‘them’.

!Ci!ci-tel
 * Is a veteran of the People’s war with ‘them’.


 * Aged to death by temporal energy stored in John Lafayette.

!qu-!qu-tala
 * The drone accompanying !Ci!ci-tel and WiRgo!xu, the drone is also a veteran of the war.

Continuity

 * The People first appeared in NA: The Also People.


 * Benny agreed to become an agent of The People in Oh No It Isn't!.


 * The People make a deal regarding time travel in Dead Romance.