Doctor Who - Short Trips (Big Finish) - 19 - Dalek Empire by Nicholas Briggs & Simon Guerrier

Author:Nicholas Briggs & Simon Guerrier [Briggs, Nicholas & Guerrier, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Media Tie-In, Science Fiction, General, Collections & Anthologies
ISBN: 9781844351503
Google: 1SQqAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 1844351505
Publisher: Big Finish
Published: 2006-10-15T07:00:00+00:00

reached out beyond India...’

‘And did they have marvels like the pyramids out there?’

‘Have you been to look?’

‘Boys, please,’ said Evelyn. ‘You’re spoiling the historic

occasion.’

‘I merely meant –’ Newton started. Then he made himself stop,

and said, ‘How about some kind of toast?’

‘Yes,’ said the Doctor, reaching for his wine. ‘To the discovery of a wonder of the world.’

They clinked their glasses and drank. Evelyn caught the Doctor’s eye and he smirked and looked quickly away.

‘So you’re sure the Colossos stood in the harbour?’ she asked

Newton. They had a table overlooking the water, a good view of the marker poles Newton had spent all day planting.

‘It has to have! We’ve found what can only be its great

foundations. And anyway, where else would they put it?’

‘Well,’ said Evelyn. ‘How about up there on the hill? Nice view from up there, I’d expect.’

Newton attempted to take her idea seriously. ‘It’s a possibility,’

he said. In the manner, thought Evelyn, that she would once have responded to entreaties about alien abductions.

‘I’m sure Mr Newton’s right,’ chided the Doctor. ‘And it’s

corroborated by all the sources.’

‘Only those written centuries after it was standing,’ admitted Newton.

‘But that’s all we’ve got,’ said Evelyn firmly. ‘So that’s what we 119

have to make do with.’

They sat in silence for a moment, not watching the water and the history marked out as lying within it, but the people of the town as they went about their evening. There were evening meals going on, at which babies wailed, mothers harried their grown-up children, and the menfolk told terrible jokes. As it had always been, as it would always be.

And best of all for Evelyn, none of them gave a stuff about

history.

The Record of the Human Past is not all contained in printed

books. Man’s history has been graven on the rocks of Egypt,

stamped on the brick of Assyria, enshrined in the marble of

the Parthenon. It rises before us an amorphic presence in the

piled up arches of the Coliseum. It lurks, an unsuspected

treasure amid the oblivious dust of archives and monasteries

– it is enshrined in all the heirlooms of religions, of races, of families.

Charles Newton, On the Study of Archaeology,

lecture given at Oxford University, 1850s.

120

Mutually Assured Survival

Justin Richards

I’ve thought a thousand times about how I might die, but I never once imagined it would be with you.

Alone, perhaps. In a small room with no air, maybe. Out in space with no hope of rescue, possibly. Blasted down by a Dalek, very probably. But like this, and with you? Never.

Georgi knew he was sending me to my death. Though he expected it to be sooner than this. Well, so did I. Summoned to see the great Georgi Selestru – that was almost a death sentence in itself in those days. I wouldn’t have missed it for anything, though – because it meant I had a chance. A chance to fight back, to make a difference. It was only a week after Leon’s ship was reported missing just outside the Hernestoral Buffer Zone. And we all knew what that meant.

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