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merryghoulThe Diary of River Song series is dead. Long live The Death and Life of River Song. The first installment in this Big Finish series links Silence in the Library's, well, Library, to the early days of the Nerva Beacon (the space station from The Ark in Space).
(Note: My rundown is a bit more detailed than Big Finish’s but may be somewhat spoilery)
Well after River's consciousness is uploaded to the Library (in the 61st century), it's downloaded back into a clone body against her consent. River's client, a Garrison Clay, has bought the Library and tasks her to find a few people supposedly involved in a conspiracy around the time of the world ending. She's given a few items but she prizes two of them more than the others: her diary and her sonic screwdriver, something Clay doesn't think highly of. River finds these people but on her trail is an assassin who's also a zealot. The people River eventually encounters causes her to reevaluate her stance on Clay...and find the Nerva Beacon. But can her clone body hold out long enough to see this "conspiracy" until the end?
I never thought that River's afterlife could be connected to the Nerva Beacon (which has only been seen on screen in The Ark in Space but has featured in other media) but this story connects the two entities well. I do like the idea of cities changing their names by the 61st century, but then again I find names like Shangri-La and New Brazil as silly as New New York. I did like the other ideas for the future, though, including one idea that dominates Book 2. Overall, I do like the series handling not only this mystery but River moving on from the Doctor and finding happiness elsewhere in and out of the Library. And the story also touches on the ethics of billionaires as well. A promising series, but the wait for part 2 (in March 2025) is so far away!
(Note: My rundown is a bit more detailed than Big Finish’s but may be somewhat spoilery)
Well after River's consciousness is uploaded to the Library (in the 61st century), it's downloaded back into a clone body against her consent. River's client, a Garrison Clay, has bought the Library and tasks her to find a few people supposedly involved in a conspiracy around the time of the world ending. She's given a few items but she prizes two of them more than the others: her diary and her sonic screwdriver, something Clay doesn't think highly of. River finds these people but on her trail is an assassin who's also a zealot. The people River eventually encounters causes her to reevaluate her stance on Clay...and find the Nerva Beacon. But can her clone body hold out long enough to see this "conspiracy" until the end?
I never thought that River's afterlife could be connected to the Nerva Beacon (which has only been seen on screen in The Ark in Space but has featured in other media) but this story connects the two entities well. I do like the idea of cities changing their names by the 61st century, but then again I find names like Shangri-La and New Brazil as silly as New New York. I did like the other ideas for the future, though, including one idea that dominates Book 2. Overall, I do like the series handling not only this mystery but River moving on from the Doctor and finding happiness elsewhere in and out of the Library. And the story also touches on the ethics of billionaires as well. A promising series, but the wait for part 2 (in March 2025) is so far away!
