The Long Earth
Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
The Long Earth
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 have 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
3.5 out of 5 based on 4 reviews
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Omniscore:
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| Classification |
Fiction |
| Genre |
General Fiction |
| Format |
Hardcover |
| Pages |
352 |
| RRP |
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| Date of Publication |
June 2012 |
| ISBN |
978-0857520098 |
| Publisher |
Doubleday |
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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 have 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
Nation by Terry Pratchett.
Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett.
Reviews
The Guardian
Adam Roberts
“The Long Earth reads much more like a Baxter novel than a Pratchett one. It's not very funny, for one thing – discounting some wry dialogue and one not-very-successful stab at a comic character (a deceased Tibetan monk who has been reincarnated as a superintelligent drinks dispenser). Instead our hero, Joshua, explores stepwise for a million earths or so, the whole journey rendered with a characteristically Baxteresque mix of big-scale imagination and scientific rigour. The resulting novel is a surprisingly gentle piece of work.”
20/06/2012
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The Independent
David Barnett
“Baxter excels at high-concept "hard SF", while Pratchett is more of a character man with a finely tuned ear for dialogue, and it's this blend of talents that makes The Long Earth such a triumph.”
01/07/2012
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The Daily Mail
Harry Ritchie
“ Clever, witty, and hugely entertaining. ”
14/06/2012
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The Daily Express
Mark Lawrence
“The Terry Pratchett of Discworld fame has not shown up to this party. There’s rarely a smile in The Long Earth and never a laugh. The writing, line by line, is fine but the story arching over chapters lacks tension. Our heroes (a young man who is very good at moving through the worlds and an artificial intelligence named Lobsang) are exploring but they don’t have any clear goals stated. Nothing is after them, they have no serious problems, they don’t appear worried or even to care that much and thus, as a reader, one tends to a similar disposition.”
24/06/2012
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