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Long Earth

#1 Long Earth

Terry Pratchett Stephen Baxter

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English
Corgi
16 May 2013
Series: Long Earth
GALAXY BOOKSELLER PICK ----- I have been both looking forward to and dreading this. I love Pratchett, but I don’t like collaborations as a rule OOr I haven't in the past, including 'Good Omens'). All that preamble aside - this is good.

I'd compare the resulting style to Vonnegut's 'Sirens of Titian'. The storyline drifts. Feels a bit sketched rather than decisively pre-decided, but I like that, it suits the tale.

It's like holding a baby mole in your hands: it's odd and appalling and enthralling and I'm not sure what it's trying to say with its odd sounds, but I like it. ~ Craig

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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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Imprint:   Corgi
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 127mm,  Spine: 26mm
Weight:   296g
ISBN:   9780552164085
ISBN 10:   0552164089
Series:   Long Earth
Pages:   400
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Author of the Discworld series, Terry Pratchett is one of the UK's most popular - and bestselling - writers. His books have sold over 65 million copies worldwide and been translated in to nearly 40 languages. Awarded an OBE in 1998 and knighted in 2009 for his services to literature, he lives in Wiltshire. Stephen 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' The Time Machine. He lives in Northumberland.

Reviews for Long Earth (#1 Long Earth)

An 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 GUARDIAN 20120623 The 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 20120701 ***** 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 20120701 Wonderfully rich fantasy, full of ingenuity, humour and some rather deep thoughts READERS' DIGEST


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