The Long Earth: There are world's waiting. All it takes is onre small step.

Pratchett. Terry. and Stephen Baxter.

ISBN 10: 0857520091 / ISBN 13: 9780857520098

Published by Transworld Publishers, UK, 2012

About this Item

The Long Earth is the first novel in an exciting new collaboration between the creator of the Discworld Terry Pratchett and the acclaimed SF writer Stephen Baxter.The boards, text block and dust jacket are all square and tight. Book price includes 2nd class parcel post in UK only.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Long Earth: There are world's waiting. All it takes is onre small step.
• Publisher: Transworld Publishers, UK
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857520091
• ISBN 13: 9780857520098
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The UK's bestselling fantasy writer and a giant of British SF combine forces to write an astonishing, mind-bending new series... The Long Earth.
 
2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Junior cop Sally Jansson is called out to the house of Willis Lynsey, a reclusive scientist, for an animal-cruelty complaint: the man was seen forcing a horse in through the door of his home. Inside there is no horse. But Sally finds a kind of home-made utility belt. She straps this on -- and 'steps' sideways into an America covered with virgin forest. Willis came here with equipment and animals, meaning to explore and colonise. And when Sally gets back, she finds Willis has put the secret of the belt on the internet. The great migration has begun...
 
The Long Earth: our Earth is but one of a chain of parallel worlds, lying side by side in a higher space of possibilities, each differing from its neighbours by a little (or a lot): an infinite landscape of infinite possibilities. And the further away you travel, the stranger the worlds get. The sun and moon always shine, the basic laws of physics are the same. However, the chance events which have shaped our particular version of Earth, such as the dinosaur-killer asteroid impact, might not have happened and things may well have turned out rather differently. But only our Earth hosts mankind.

About the Author

TERRY PRATCHETT is one of the most popular authors writing today. He lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'. He was appointed OBE in 1998. He is the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series and his trilogy for young readers, The Bromeliad, is scheduled to be adapted into a spectacular animated movie. His first Discworld novel for children, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal.
 
Born in 1957, STEPHEN BAXTER is one of the UK's most acclaimed writers of science fiction. Amongst his many books are the Time's Odyssey novels, written with Arthur C. Clarke, and Time Ships, a sequel to H G Wells' classic The Time Machine. He lives in Northumberland.