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The Long Mars

(Long Earth 3)

Author: Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter   Series: Long Earth

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From the combined talents of the UK's bestselling novelist and a giant of British science fiction comes the dazzling new chapter in the extraordinary and bestselling Long Earth sequence.

He becomes embroiled in the plight of the Next: the super-bright post-humans who are beginning to emerge from their 'long childhood' in a hidden community located deep in the Long Earth. .___The Long Mars is the third in The Long Earth series.

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From the combined talents of the UK's bestselling novelist and a giant of British science fiction comes the dazzling new chapter in the extraordinary and bestselling Long Earth sequence.

He becomes embroiled in the plight of the Next: the super-bright post-humans who are beginning to emerge from their 'long childhood' in a hidden community located deep in the Long Earth. .___The Long Mars is the third in The Long Earth series.

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From the combined talents of the UK's bestselling novelist and a giant of British science fiction comes the dazzling new chapter in the extraordinary and bestselling Long Earth sequence.'Imaginative, sense-of-wonder at its best . . . thrilling stuff from the masters' Independent on Sunday2040-2045- In the years after a cataclysmic eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee 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 he is not what he seems.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 a hidden community 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 . . .___The Long Mars is the third in The Long Earth series.

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Critic Reviews

“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
Imaginative, sense-of-wonder SF at its best . . . thrilling stuff from the masters. INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

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About the Author

Terry Pratchett (Author)Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books which have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood for services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.ephen Baxter (Author)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's The Time Machine, a Doctor Who novel, The Wheel of Ice, and most recently the epic, far-future novels Proxima and Ultima. He lives in Northumberland.

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The Long Earth is in chaos. The cataclysmic aftermath of the Yellowstone eruption is shutting civilization down. As populations flee to the relative safety of stepwise Earths, Sally Linsay, Joshua Valiente and Lobsang do what they can to assist in the perilous clean-up. But Joshua is called to a crisis closer to home: a newly emergent breed of young, super-bright post-humans threatens the status-quo of 'normal' human society and violent confrontation seems inevitable. And now Sally has been contacted by her long-vanished father, Willis Linsay - the maverick inventor of the original Stepper device. He is planning a fantastic voyage and wants her to join him, but what is his true motivation? For mankind and for the Long Earth itself - a dangerous new adventure is beginning.

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Product Details

Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd | Corgi Books
Published
9th April 2015
Pages
448
ISBN
9780552169356

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