The Long Earth · Book 5
The Long Cosmos
- Published
- 30 June 2016
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9780857521781
- Type
- novel
About this book
At 400 pages, The Long Cosmos is the shortest book in The Long Earth to date, published in 2016 as the fifth and final entry -- completed by Baxter after Pratchett's death from Alzheimer's the previous year.
Its place in The Long Earth
The Long Cosmos is book 5 in the The Long Earth series. It follows The Long Utopia. See the full The Long Earth reading order.
When a simple homemade device called a Stepper lets ordinary people 'step' sideways into a parallel, uninhabited version of Earth -- and then another, and another, in a chain of infinite Earths stretching in both directions -- human civilization is transformed overnight. The Long Earth (2012) follows Joshua Valiente, a natural stepper who never needs the device at all, as he's recruited by an artificial intelligence calling itself Lobsang to explore the Long Earth's outer reaches, encountering the strange…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780857521781