Doctor Who: Keeping Up With the Joneses by Nick Harkaway

Author:Nick Harkaway [Harkaway, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction, General
ISBN: 9781448141876
Google: HdxlAQAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00FZ08D3G
Publisher: BBC Digital
Published: 2014-02-06T00:00:00+00:00

She expected the thing to bite down, wondered if it would hurt very much to be eaten. She felt the Doctor pushed away from her, hurled back by focused time distortion. She was alone with Heidt’s twin. She waited for the end.

And felt, instead, a connection. Psychic notepaper pressed to the flesh of the monster and bound at the same time into her skin. Contact. She felt howling, rageful things pour into her mind in a great torrent. Years of war, of concealment, of planning and tactics and ambushes and programming, of victories at great cost and sacrifices and last stands, all of it buffeted her. She hated and feared and cheered and celebrated, and was suddenly cut off in a cold, dark place, cast aside, seeing fellow prisoners slip mockingly away into the night, pursuing. Finding one. Attacking. She would win this time. She would crush, rend. She felt herself fading away.

Jonestown rose up inside her, narrow streets and old women buying fish, barrow boys and taxis and markets giving way to skyscrapers and schools. Women and men went to work, went shopping, went out on the town, went home early for a good night’s sleep, went out for a pint of milk and fell in love. Thousands of minds touched her own, calm and reassuring and vastly ordinary. What was all this fuss? That little thing? It was loud and silly and a bit childish. No cause for such a ruckus. There was a place for that kind of behaviour.

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