The Long Earth · Book 1
The Long Earth
- Published
- 19 June 2012
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9780552164085
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Long Earth (2012) follows Joshua Valiente, a natural stepper who never needs the Stepper device, as an AI calling itself Lobsang recruits him to explore an infinite chain of parallel, uninhabited Earths -- Terry Pratchett's first major collaboration outside Discworld, co-written with hard-SF novelist Stephen Baxter.
Its place in The Long Earth
The Long Earth is book 1 in the The Long Earth series. It is followed by The Long War. 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 9780552164085