The third novel in legendary author and Discworld creator Terry Pratchett and award-winning science fiction writer Stephen Baxter's “Long Earth” series, which Io9 calls “a brilliant science fiction collaboration.” 2040. The Long Earth is in chaos. . . . The cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption is shutting down civilization. Whole populations flee to the relative safety of myriad stepwise Earths. Sally Linsay, Joshua Valiente, and Lobsang have all been involved in the perilous post-eruption clean-up. But Joshua faces a crisis close to home. From a long childhood hidden deep in the Long Earth, a new breed of young, super-bright post-humans is emerging—but ""normal"" human society is turning against them, driven by ignorance and fear. For Joshua, caught up in the conflict, a dramatic showdown seems inevitable. Meanwhile, U.S. Navy Commander Maggie Kauffman embarks on an incredible journey, leading an expedition to the unexplored limits of the far Long Earth. And Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father, Willis Linsay, inventor of the original Stepper device. Ever the maverick, he is planning a fantastic voyage of his own—across the Long Mars. But what is his true motivation? For Joshua, for humankind, for the Long Earth itself—everything is different now. Joshua becomes embroiled in the plight of the Next: the super-bright post-humans who are beginning to emerge from their “long childhood” in the community called Happy Landings, located deep in the Long Earth. Ignorance and fear have caused “normal” human society to turn against the Next. A dramatic showdown seems inevitable. . . . The complete list of books in the Long Earth series include: The Long EarthThe Long WarThe Long MarsThe Long UtopiaThe Long Cosmos

Long Earth

The Long Mars

“Their trademark world building and questions of morality remain intact . . . The explosive cliffhanger ending—also now something of a trademark—promises one final return to the series.” — Booklist The fourth novel in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter’s bestselling series, which io9 calls “a brilliant science fiction collaboration.” 2045-2059. Human society continues to evolve on Datum Earth, its battered and weary origin planet, as the spread of humanity progresses throughout the many Earths beyond. Lobsang, now an elderly and complex AI, suffers a breakdown, and disguised as a human attempts to live a “normal” life on one of the millions of Long Earth worlds. His old friend, Joshua, now in his fifties, searches for his father and discovers a heretofore unknown family history. And the super-intelligent post-humans known as “the Next” continue to adapt to life among “lesser” humans. But an alarming new challenge looms. An alien planet has somehow become “entangled” with one of the Long Earth worlds and, as Lobsang and Joshua learn, its voracious denizens intend to capture, conquer, and colonize the new universe—the Long Earth—they have inadvertently discovered. World-building, the intersection of universes, the coexistence of diverse species, and the cosmic meaning of the Long Earth itself are among the mind-expanding themes explored in this exciting new installment of Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's extraordinary Long Earth series. The complete list of books in the Long Earth series include: The Long EarthThe Long WarThe Long MarsThe Long UtopiaThe Long Cosmos

The Long Utopia

""A wholly satisfying conclusion.” — Publishers Weekly The thrilling conclusion to the internationally bestselling Long Earth series explores the greatest question of all: What is the meaning of life? 2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day, a new society continues to evolve in the Long Earth. Now, a message has been received: “Join us.” The Next—the hyper-intelligent post-humans—realize that the missive contains instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial intelligence known as The Machine. But to build this computer the size of an Earth continent, they must obtain help from the more populous and still industrious worlds of mankind. Meanwhile, on a trek in the High Meggers, Joshua Valienté, now nearing seventy, is saved from death when a troll band discovers him. Living among the trolls as he recovers, Joshua develops a deeper understanding of this collective-intelligence species and its society. He discovers that some older trolls, with capacious memories, act as communal libraries, and live on a very strange Long Earth world, in caverns under the root systems of trees as tall as mountains. Valienté also learns something much more profound . . . about life and its purpose in the Long Earth: We cultivate the cosmos to maximize the opportunities for life and joy in this universe, and to prepare for new universes to come. The complete list of books in the Long Earth series include: The Long EarthThe Long WarThe Long MarsThe Long UtopiaThe Long Cosmos

The Long Cosmos

On kulunut reilut parikymmentä vuotta Pitkän Maan ”löytämisestä”. Pitkässä Maassa on yhä enemmän siirtokuntia, ja teknologia kehittyy huimin harppauksin. Mutta jännitteet siirtokuntien ja tämän päivämäärän Maan välillä kasvavat nopeasti, ja Joshua Valientékin joutuu jättämään perheensä siirtokunnassa estääkseen ihmiskuntaa ajautumasta historiansa suurimpaan sotaan... Pitkä Sota on jatkoa romaanille Pitkä Maa (2013). Tässä jännittävässä tieteisfantasiassa kaksi tunnustettua kirjailijaa ovat yhdistäneet voimansa. Tuloksena on moniulotteinen ajatusleikki ja huima seikkailu.

Pitkä Maa

Pitkä sota

Vuonna 2015 poliisi Monica Jansson löytää erään omalaatuisen keksijän palaneen talon luota erikoisen laitteen. Keksintö muuttaa koko maailman elämän, sillä sen avulla on mahdollista matkustaa lukemattomiin rinnakkaistodellisuuksiin, niin sanottuun Pitkään Maahan. Miten rajattomat mahdollisuudet vaikuttavat ihmisiin? Ja onko Pitkä Maa niin vaaraton kuin luullaan? Pitkässä Maassa kaksi tunnustettua kirjailijaa ovat yhdistäneet voimansa. Tuloksena on jännittävä, moniulotteinen ajatusleikki ja huima seikkailu. Teos aloittaa uuden sarjan. Sen ensimmäisessä osassa matkustetaan kohti juuri löydetyn Pitkän Maan ääriä...

Pitkä maa

” Vanha” Maa on Yellowstonen purkauksen jäljiltä kriisissä ja kokonaiset kansakunnat evakuoituvat Pitkään Maahan. Joshua Valienté, Lobsang ja Sally Linsay osallistuvat kriisin selvittelyyn kukin tavallaan. Sitten Sally Linsay saa yllättäen yhteyden vuosikymmeniä kadoksissa olleeseen isäänsä, salaperäiseen keksijä Willis Linsayhin...

Pitkä Mars

Fresh from his latest collaboration with Terry Pratchett on the Long Earth sequence Stephen Baxter now returns to the mysteries and challanges first hinted at in his acclaimed novel PROXIMA. In PROXIMA we discovered ancient alien artifacts on the planet of Per Ardua - hatches that allowed us to step across light years of space as if we were stepping into another room. The universe opened up to us. Now in ULTIMA the consequences of this new freedom make themselves felt. And we discover that there are minds in the universe that are billions of years old and they have a plan for us. For some of us. But as we learn the true nature of the universe we also discover that we have countless pasts all meeting in this present and that our future is terrifyingly finite. It's time for us to fight to take back control. This is grand scale, big idea SF of the best possible sort. It is set to build on the massive success of PROXIMA and define Stephen Baxter's work going forward. Read by Kyle McCarley (p) 2014 Tantor, Inc

Ultima

Half a million years in the future, on a dead, war-ravaged world at the centre of the Galaxy, there is a mile-high statue of Michael Poole. Poole, born on Earth in the fourth millennium, was one of mankind's most influential heroes. He was not a warrior, not an emperor. He was an engineer, a builder of wormhole transit systems. But Poole's work would ultimately lead to a vast and destructive conflict, a million-year war between humanity and the enigmatic, powerful aliens known as the Xeelee. The Xeelee won, but at a huge cost. And, defeated in a greater war, the Xeelee eventually fled the universe. Most of them. A handful were left behind, equipped with time travel capabilities, their task to tidy up: to reorder history more to the Xeelee's liking. That million-year war with humankind was one blemish. It had to be erased. And in order to do that, a lone Xeelee was sent back in time to remove Michael Poole from history... Read by Dudley Hinton (p) 2017 Orion Publishing Group

Xeelee: Vengeance

It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian menace. Machinery looted from the abandoned capsules and war-machines has led to technological leaps forward. The Martians are vulnerable to earth germs. The Army is prepared. So when the signs of launches on Mars are seen, there seems little reason to worry. Unless you listen to one man, Walter Jenkins, the narrator of Wells' book. He is sure that the Martians have learned, adapted, understood their defeat. He is right. Thrust into the chaos of a new invasion, a journalist - sister-in-law to Walter Jenkins - must survive, escape and report on the war. The Massacre of Mankind has begun Read by Nathalie Buscombe (p) 2017 Orion Publishing Group

The Massacre of Mankind

Michael Poole finds himself in a very strange landscape . . . This is the centre of the Galaxy. And in a history without war with the humans, the Xeelee have had time to built an immense structure here. The Xeelee Belt has a radius ten thousand times Earth's orbital distance. It is a light year in circumference. If it was set in the solar system it would be out in the Oort Cloud, among the comets - but circling the sun. If it was at rest it would have a surface area equivalent to about thirty billion Earths. But it is not at rest: it rotates at near lightspeed. And because of relativistic effects, distances are compressed for inhabitants of the Belt, and time drastically slowed. The purpose of the Belt is to preserve a community of Xeelee into the very far future, when they will be able to tap dark energy, a universe-spanning antigravity field, for their own purposes. But with time the Belt has attracted populations of lesser species, here for the immense surface area, the unending energy flows. Poole, Miriam and their party, having followed the Ghosts, must explore the artefact and survive encounters with its strange inhabitants - before Poole, at last, finds the Xeelee who led the destruction of Earth... Read by Dudley Hinton (p) Orion Publishing Group 2018

Xeelee: Redemption

On vuosi 2070, Pitkän Maan löytämisestä on jo lähes kuusi vuosikymmentä. Seuraavat ovat ottaneet paikkansa Pitkässä Maassa ja jatkuvasti kehittyvä yhteiskunta elää jälkihumanistista aikaa. Kehitys kiihtyy entisestään, kun radioastronomit poimivat tähtien takaa viestin, joka sisältää ohjeet aivan uudenlaisen tekoälyn kehittämiseen. Pala palalta, bitti bitiltä superälykkäät Seuraavat rakentavat mantereenkokoisen tekoälyn, joka muuttaa kaikkien Pitkän Maan asukkaiden elämän.

Pitkä Kosmos

Rinnakkaisten maailmojen ketju, Pitkä Maa, on kauan tuntunut luonnonrikkauksissaan auvoisalta utopialta. Nyt Pitkään Maahan on kuitenkin tunkeutunut aivan uusi ja vihamielinen oliolaji, hyönteismäiset kyborgit. Torjuakseen uhan ihmiskunnan on yhdistettävä voimansa tekoälyn ja nuorten, huippuälykkäiden Seuraavien kanssa, eikä katkerilta uhrauksiltakaan vältytä... Pitkä Utopia on Terry Pratchettin ja Stephen Baxterin tieteisfantasiasarjan Pitkä Maa neljäs osa.

Pitkä Utopia

Az ​1800-as évek közepén vívott krími háború fordulópontja volt Szevasztopol eleste. A hosszan elnyúló ostrom végül a jobb utánpótlási vonalakkal rendelkező szövetséges angol–török–francia csapatok javára dőlt el, melyek így megszállhatták a kiéheztetett várost. A mi világunkban. Stephen Baxter regényében a történelem menetét egy rendkívüli felfedezés forgatja fel: a Déli-sarkon egy angol utazó különleges jégre bukkan, amely melegítéskor nem vízzé olvad, hanem erős robbanást idéz elő. Ezt az antijégnek elnevezett anyagot vetik be a britek Szevasztopolnál, jóformán a földdel téve egyenlővé a várost. A felfedezésnek köszönhetően rohamos fejlődésnek indul a technika és a tudomány is, és az éjszakánként rejtélyes ikerholdak fényében fürdő Föld lakói fejüket kapkodva próbálják a lépést tartani a haladás mind sebesebben kattogó fogaskerekeivel. Baxter varázslatos gőzpunk világot épít fel a forradalmak és háborúk szaggatta 19. századi Európa romjain, megidézve Jules Verne szellemét, egyszersmind új politikai és etikai dilemmákkal szembesítve a rettentő pusztító és építő erők mellett eltörpülő ember hőseit.

Antijég

The very far future: The Galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, chill white dwarfs. The age of star formation is long past. Yet there is life here, feeding off the energies of the stellar remnants, and there is mind, a tremendous Galaxy-spanning intelligence each of whose thoughts lasts a hundred thousand years. And this mind cradles memories of a long-gone age when a more compact universe was full of light... The 27th century: Proxima Centauri, an undistinguished red dwarf star, is the nearest star to our sun - and (in this fiction), the nearest to host a world, Proxima IV, habitable by humans. But Proxima IV is unlike Earth in many ways. Huddling close to the warmth, orbiting in weeks, it keeps one face to its parent star at all times. The 'substellar point', with the star forever overhead, is a blasted desert, and the 'antistellar point' on the far side is under an ice cap in perpetual darkness. How would it be to live on such a world? Yuri Jones, with 1,000 others, is about to find out... PROXIMA tells the amazing tale of how we colonise a harsh new eden, and the secret we find there that will change our role in the Universe for ever. Read by Kyle McCarley (p) 2014 Tantor, Inc

Proxima

Em A guerra longa, segundo volume da série best-seller do New York Times e vencedora do Goodreads Choice Awards, Joshua Valienté continua sua jornada pela Terra Longa, em uma trama que levanta questões sobre o que é cidadania e o que constitui um país. Dez anos se passaram e a Terra Longa está totalmente povoada. Uma nova "América", chamada Valhalla, emerge a mais de um milhão de saltos da Terra Padrão. Os princípios norte-americanos são reafirmados em todas as Terras, e o povo de Valhalla começa a refletir sobre o porquê de obedecerem ao regime de um governo que se encontra tão distante. Em paralelo a isso, incidentes suspeitos entre trolls e humanos não param de acontecer; Sally descobre que os humanoides estão sendo usados em experimentos científicos; padre Nelson é convocado para uma missão; e, por fim, uma expedição chinesa com o objetivo de chegar à Terra vinte milhões está em curso. A relação de codependência entre a humanidade e a Terra Longa torna-se insustentável, e Joshua – agora casado e pai de um menino – tem o novo objetivo de encontrar uma solução para a série de crises que ameaça culminar em uma guerra jamais vista. Em A guerra longa, os personagens se deparam com o seguinte questionamento: até quando permitiremos que regras com as quais não concordamos ditem nossa vida? "Dois gigantes da ficção científica. O talento de Pratchett e a imaginação fértil de Baxter formam o casamento perfeito." The Guardian "O conceito de multiverso é uma fonte inesgotável de ideias, mas ninguém o explorou tão bem quanto Pratchett e Baxter nesta série. Uma trama acessível, divertida e envolvente." Independent "Preciso como sempre, Pratchett acertou em cheio na parceria com Baxter, trazendo a dose perfeita de diversão para o mundo da ficção científica." Sunday Times "Uma história inteligente e muito bem contada, com um senso de humor afiado que prende o leitor até o fim." Daily Mail

Terra Longa

A guerra longa (Vol. 2 Terra Longa)

KULTVERDÄCHTIG: der AUFTAKT zur NEUEN REIHE Stellen Sie sich vor: Neben der Welt, wie wir sie kennen, existiert eine unendliche Reihe paralleler Alternativwelten. Welten, in deren Geschichte irgendein zufälliges Ereignis anders stattgefunden hat und die sich deshalb in andere Richtungen entwickelt haben. Und nun stellen Sie sich vor, u. a. mit Hilfe einer Kartoffel wird es möglich, zwischen diesen Alternativwelten zu wechseln. Joshua Valienté wird auserwählt, die Ränder dieser Weltenreihe zu erforschen. Die Lange Erde, der erste gemeinsame Roman von Scheibenwelt-Erfinder Terry Pratchett und dem gefeierten Science-Fiction-Autor Stephen Baxter, entführt den Hörer ans Ende der Welt – und weit darüber hinaus. (Laufzeit: 12h 49)

Lange Erde

Die Lange Erde

Eine Erde ist nicht genug Die Lange Erde ist eine Abfolge von Parallelwelten, der unseren ähnlich. Seit eine zum Transporter modifizierte Kartoffel es Menschen ermöglicht, diese zu betreten, sind dort Siedlungen entstanden, verbunden durch eine Flotte von Luftschiffen. Doch Unruhen deuten sich an: Ein neues Amerika ist entstanden, das nach Unabhängigkeit verlangt, und alte Wesen der Langen Erde begehren gegen die menschlichen Siedler auf. Es droht ein Krieg, wie ihn noch nie jemand gesehen hat.(Laufzeit: 16h 06)

Der Lange Krieg

Unterwegs in Pratchetts Welten 2040-45: Das Universum der Langen Erde, dieser unendlichen Abfolge paralleler Welten, ist in Aufruhr. Nach einem Vulkanausbruch auf der ursprünglichen, der Datum-Erde suchen Flüchtlingswellen die Siedlungen auf den neuen Erden heim. Die erfahrenen Pioniere Joshua und Sally helfen, wo sie können. Doch dann meldet sich ein lang Verschollener zurück: Sallys Vater, der Erfinder der modifizierten Kartoffel, die das Wechseln zwischen den Welten erst ermöglichte. Er will seine Tochter mitnehmen auf eine Expedition in die Welten des Langen Mars. Allerdings verschweigt er Sally die wahren Gründe für diese gefährliche Reise …(Laufzeit: 14h 06)

Der Lange Mars

Schöne neue Parallelwelt 2045–2059: Während sich die Menschheit auf der Datumerde, ihrem von Katastrophen heimgesuchten und in die Jahre gekommenen Heimatplaneten, weiterentwickelt, schreitet auch die Besiedelung der Parallelwelten der Langen Erde voran. Lobsang, der als künstliche Intelligenz über Jahrzehnte die Lange Erde erforschte, lebt inzwischen als Mensch getarnt auf einer weit entfernten Parallelwelt. Als sich die Anzeichen häufen, dass mit dieser etwas nicht stimmt, muss er seine alten Freunde, die Pioniere Joshua und Sally um Hilfe rufen.Mit viel Witz ungekürzt gelesen von Volker Niederfahrenhorst. (Laufzeit: 13h 52)

Das Lange Utopia

Das Ende der Langen Erde 2070-71: Fast sechs Jahrzehnte nach der Entdeckung des Wechslers, der erstmals das Pendeln zwischen Parallelwelten ermöglichte, floriert auf der Langen Erde eine neue posthumane Gesellschaft. Doch gerät diese in Aufruhr, als eine geheimnisvolle Botschaft aus der Mitte der Galaxie eingeht: JOIN US. Die superintelligenten Next entdecken darin die Baupläne für eine künstliche Intelligenz von gewaltigen Ausmaßen. Einmal gebaut, könnte der Computer nicht nur die Position der Langen Erde im Kosmos für immer verändern, sondern auch Antwort geben auf die Frage aller Fragen: Was ist der Sinn des Lebens? Doch niemand kennt den Sender der Botschaft, und niemand weiß, ob seine Absichten friedlich sind.Ungekürzt gelesen von Volker Niederfahrenhorst. (Laufzeit: 14h 31)

Der Lange Kosmos

David Troughton reads this gripping adventure by award-winning author Stephen Baxter, featuring the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe. The Wheel. A ring of ice and steel turning around a moon of Saturn, and home to a mining colony supplying a resource-hungry Earth. It's a bad place to grow up. The colony has been plagued by problems. Maybe it's just gremlins, just bad luck. But the equipment failures and thefts of resources have been increasing, and there have been stories among the children of mysterious creatures glimpsed aboard the Wheel. Many of the younger workers refuse to go down the warren-like mines anymore. And then sixteen-year-old Phee Laws, surfing Saturn's rings, saves an enigmatic blue box from destruction. Aboard the Wheel, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find a critical situation - and they are suspected by some as the source of the sabotage. They soon find themselves caught in a mystery that goes right back to the creation of the solar system. A mystery that could kill them all. ? 2012, 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd © 2012, 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd Text © Stephen Baxter 2012

Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice

An alternative history of the US space programme, dramatised by Dirk Maggs. After the moon, Mars… What if John F. Kennedy survived the assassination attempt and developed the space programme? President Nixon, with the help of former president JFK, has just green-lit NASA’s first manned expedition to Mars. Aboard the expedition is Natalie York, a geologist who risks everything she loves for the chance to go to space; Phil Stone, former X-15 test pilot; and Ralph Gershon, a Vietnam War hero intent on being the first African American to reach another planet. Exploring mankind’s ambitions in space, Voyage chronicles the incredible story of what could have been. Also included is an one-hour bonus programme featuring Dirk Maggs in conversation with Stephen Baxter, 20 years after Voyage was recorded. This wonderful, intimate conversation between the two friends is peppered with memories of the recording, the production process, and what inspired Stephen to pen such a well-loved story. Cast: Natalie York...Laurel Lefkow Mike Conlig...William Dufris Gregory Dana...Michael Roberts Joe Muldoon...Vincent Marzello Chuck Jones...Frank Lazarus Jim Dana...Russell Bentley Ben Priest...William Roberts Ralph Gershon...Mel Taylor Phil Stone...Rolf Saxon Based on the novel by Stephen Baxter Produced and directed by Dirk Maggs Music by Wilfredo Acosta

Voyage

2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day and in the Long Earth, the new Next post-human society continues to evolve. For Joshua Valienté, now in his late sixties, it is time to take one last solo journey into the High Meggers: an adventure that turns into a disaster. Alone and facing death, his only hope of salvation lies with a group of trolls. But as Joshua confronts his mortality, the Long Earth receives a signal from the stars. A signal that is picked up by radio astronomers but also in more abstract ways – by the trolls and by the Great Traversers. Its message is simple but ts implications are enormous: JOIN US. The super-smart Next realise that the Message contains instructions on how to develop an immense artificial intelligence but to build it they have to seek help from throughout the industrious worlds of mankind. Bit by bit, byte by byte, they assemble a computer the size of a continent – a device that will alter the Long Earth’s place within the cosmos and reveal the ultimate, life-affirming goal of those who sent the Message. Its impact will be felt by and resonate with all – mankind and other species, young and old, communities and individuals – who inhabit the Long Earths…

Brought to you by Penguin. A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth – but in turn the Long Earth is shaping mankind ... A new ‘America’, called Valhalla, is emerging more than a million steps from Datum Earth, with core American values restated in the plentiful environment of the Long Earth – and Valhalla is growing restless under the control of the Datum government... Meanwhile the Long Earth is suffused by the song of the trolls, graceful hive-mind humanoids. But the trolls are beginning to react to humanity’s thoughtless exploitation ... Joshua, now a married man, is summoned by Lobsang to deal with a gathering multiple crisis that threatens to plunge the Long Earth into a war unlike any mankind has waged before. ©Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter 2013 (P) Penguin Audio 2013

The Long War

2045-2059. After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth, and society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to evolve. Now an elderly and cantankerous AI, Lobsang lives in disguise with Agnes in an exotic, far-distant world. He’s convinced they’re leading a normal life in New Springfield – they even adopt a child – but it seems they have been guided there for a reason. As rumours of strange sightings and hauntings proliferate, it becomes clear that something is very awry with this particular world. Millions of steps away, Joshua is on a personal journey of discovery: learning about the father he never knew and a secret family history. But then he receives a summons from New Springfield. Lobsang now understands the enormity of what’s taking place beneath the surface of his earth – a threat to all the worlds of the Long Earth. To counter this threat will require the combined efforts of humankind, machine and the super-intelligent Next. And some must make the ultimate sacrifice . . .

2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across the Long Mars and wants her to accompany him. But Sally soon learns that Willis has ulterior motives ... Meanwhile U. S. Navy Commander Maggie Kauffman has embarked on an incredible journey of her own, leading an expedition to the outer limits of the far Long Earth. For Joshua, the crisis he faces is much closer to home. He becomes embroiled in the plight of the Next: the super-bright post-humans who are beginning to emerge from their 'long childhood' in the community called Happy Landings, located deep in the Long Earth. Ignorance and fear are causing 'normal' human society to turn against the Next - and a dramatic showdown seems inevitable . . .

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's an understatement if ever there was one... The Long Earth is the first novel in an exciting new collaboration between the creator of Discworld Terry Pratchett and the acclaimed SF writer Stephen Baxter

The Long Earth

For eons, Earth has been under observation by the Firstborn, beings almost as old as the universe itself. The Firstborn are unknown to humankind—until they act. In an instant, Earth’s timeline is carved up and reassembled into a patchwork of different eras, from prehistory to the year 2037, each with its own indigenous inhabitants. Scattered across the planet are floating silver orbs impervious to all weapons and impossible to communicate with. Are these technologically advanced devices responsible for creating and sustaining the rifts in time? Are they cameras through which inscrutable alien eyes are watching? Or are they something stranger and more terrifying still? The only clue lies in the ancient city of Babylon, where two groups of refugees from 2037—three cosmonauts and three UN peacekeepers—have detected strange radio signals. As the peacekeepers ally with nineteenth-century British troops and the armies of Alexander the Great, the cosmonauts join forces with the Mongol horde led by Genghis Khan. Both sides set out for Babylon, determined to win the race for knowledge—and the power that lies within. Yet the real power is beyond human control, perhaps even human understanding. As two great armies face off before the gates of Babylon, it watches, waiting.

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