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The Long Mars
Long Earth (Related to this series)
- Narrator
- Michael Fenton Stevens
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Publish Date
- 19 June 2014
- Run Time
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Science fiction, Technothriller, Science fiction: space opera, Science fiction: steampunk, Science fiction: time travel / time slip, Science fiction: space exploration, Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across the Long Mars and wants her to accompany him. But Sally soon learns that Willis has ulterior motives ...
Meanwhile U. S. Navy Commander Maggie Kauffman has embarked on an incredible journey of her own, leading an expedition to the outer limits of the far Long Earth.
For Joshua, the crisis he faces is much closer to home. He becomes embroiled in the plight of the Next: the super-bright post-humans who are beginning to emerge from their 'long childhood' in the community called Happy Landings, located deep in the Long Earth. Ignorance and fear are causing 'normal' human society to turn against the Next - and a dramatic showdown seems inevitable . . .
Critics Review
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Here they come again, Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, skipping along their quantum string of planets like giddy schoolboys - and what a joy it is to have them back . . . it's a thrilling and ceaselessly entertaining ride.
SFX magazine
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Imaginative, sense-of-wonder SF at its best . . . thrilling stuff from the masters.
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
User Reviews
Book 5.0
Narration 5.0
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5.0 5.0
Another brilliant tale, full of incredible worlds and things in them. 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
Johnboy 2024-05-06
Details
- Author
- Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
- Narrator
- Michael Fenton Stevens
- Duration
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 June 2014
- ISBN
- 9781448171507
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Genre
- Science fiction, Technothriller, Science fiction: space opera, Science fiction: steampunk, Science fiction: time travel / time slip, Science fiction: space exploration, Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across the Long Mars and wants her to accompany him. But Sally soon learns that Willis has ulterior motives ...Meanwhile U. S. Navy Commander Maggie Kauffman has embarked on an incredible journey of her own, leading an expedition to the outer limits of the far Long Earth. For Joshua, the crisis he faces is much closer to home. He becomes embroiled in the plight of the Next: the super-bright post-humans who are beginning to emerge from their 'long childhood' in the community called Happy Landings, located deep in the Long Earth. Ignorance and fear are causing 'normal' human society to turn against the Next - and a dramatic showdown seems inevitable . . .
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