The Long Earth

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1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where has the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man’s Land gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive (some said mad, others dangerous) scientist when she finds a curious gadget – a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a…potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way Mankind views his world for ever. And that is an understatement if ever there was one…

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Weight 0.3 kg
Dimensions 2.65 × 12.76 × 19.72 cm
PubliCanadanadation City/Country

United Kingdom

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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

400

Publisher

Year Published

2013-12-16

Imprint

ISBN 10

0552164089

About The Author

Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books which have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood for services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any. http://www.terrypratchettbooks.comStephen Baxter is one of the UK's most acclaimed writers of science fiction and a multi-award winner. His many books include the classic Xeelee sequence, the Time's Odyssey novels (written with Arthur C. Clarke) and Time Ships, a sequel to H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine, a Doctor Who novel, The Wheel of Ice, and most recently the epic, far-future novels Proxima and Ultima. He lives in Northumberland.

By turns thrillingly expansive, joyously inventive and utterly engrossing *****.—SFX magazineAn absorbing collaborative effort from two SF giants…a marriage made in fan heaven – Pratchett's warmth and humanity allied to Baxter's extraordinarily fertile science-fictional imagination…there's much to enjoy…a charming, absorbing and somehow spacious piece of imagineering—Adam Roberts, GUARDIANThe idea of parallel Earths is one of the most enduring that science fiction has given us, but rarely has it been explored with quite so much gusto as in this new novel by two of the giants of British speculative fiction…a triumph…accessible, fun and thoughtful—David Barnett, INDEPENDENT***** Literary alchemy…In the hands of Pratchett and Baxter, the possibilites are almost infinite…a story that revels in big ideas…you can sense the excitement of the authors as they toy with the labyrinthine possibilities of their premise, and it's infectious…thrillingly expansive, joyously inventive and utterly engrossing—SFX[Pratchett] succeeds in working seamlessly with Baxter…adding a welcome shot of fun to the world of science fiction—Alison Flood, SUNDAY TIMES

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