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Overview

Released

August 2006

Written by

Daniel O'Mahony

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...

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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.


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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.