Stories Audio Drama Bernice Summerfield Bernice Summerfield Episode 2 Timeless Passages 1 image Overview Characters How to Listen Reviews 1 Statistics Quotes 1 Overview Released August 2006 Written by Daniel O'Mahony Publisher Big Finish Productions Runtime 72 minutes Time Travel Future Location (Potential Spoilers!) Labyrinth of Kerykeion Synopsis For years the great Labyrinth of Kerykeion has been home to one of the largest libraries of human incunabula in the galaxy. Here, otherwise lost volumes are all carefully preserved. From tomorrow, it's under new management. Professor Bernice Summerfield is sent to acquire some of the rarest books for the Braxiatel Collection before the new corporate owners bulldoze their way in. She's hoping for a quiet time searching the archives. Some chance. Soon she's investigating a horrible murder, and is caught up in a last-ditch scheme to save the entire library. There's a vicious, insane killer cyborg on Benny's heels. And then ancient subterranean powers begin to stir... Listen Listened Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Bernice Summerfield Lisa Bowerman How to listen to Timeless Passages: Big Finish Audio Bernice Summerfield: Timeless Passages Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 1 review 8 March 2025 · 201 words Review by dema1020 Spoilers This review contains spoilers! At first, I was quite enjoying Timeless Passages. It starts off with a pretty quiet tone, where Bernice comes to a library to do some research. There's a nice, long conversation where Benny and the chief librarian Archie Spool just talk for a while. He explains the setting and how the library is able to perfectly preserve books, and I found myself ready to settle in for a quiet, more ponderous adventure. Then a baby shows up and simply will not stop crying while a loud and annoying cyborg chases around Benny and another librarian named Hermione. The story lost me at this point and then it simply... ends. Not with a bang but with a rather disappointing whimper. It feels like the library setting was squandered, which is especially disappointing as Big Finish has done this exact thing at least once before - introducing a cool library in The Genocide Machine only to not use it in a way I would find interesting. Compared to Gobbledegook, and audio adventure that actually makes use of a cool alien library in a cool way, Timeless Passages and The Genocide Machine both kind of feel like a waste of time for similar reasons. dema1020 View profile Like Liked 0 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating23 members 3.57 / 5 GoodReads AVG. Rating48 votes 3.96 / 5 The Time Scales AVG. Rating35 votes 4.05 / 5 Member Statistics Listened 45 Favourited 4 Reviewed 1 Saved 0 Skipped 2 Quotes Add Quote Link to Quote Favourite Archibald Spool: We collect human techs because humanity has always been good at trying to forget or destroy its past and rewrite its memories to flatter its present. — , Timeless Passages