Name: The Long Utopia (Long Earth)
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Author: Pratchett, Terry ; Baxter, Stephen
ISBN: 9780062297341

Type

Physical Book

Author

Terry Pratchett

Stephen Baxter

Publisher

Harper

Year

2016

Language

English

Pages

448

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

18.8 x 10.4 x 3.0 cm

Weight

0.27 kg.

ISBN13

9780062297341

Synopsis "The Long Utopia (Long Earth) "

The fourth novel in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's internationally bestselling "Long Earth" series, hailed as "a brilliant science fiction collaboration . . . a love letter to all Pratchett fans, readers, and lovers of wonder everywhere" (Io9).2045-2059. Human society continues to evolve on Datum Earth, its battered and weary origin planet, as the spread of humanity progresses throughout the many Earths beyond.Lobsang, now an elderly and complex AI, suffers a breakdown, and disguised as a human attempts to live a "normal" life on one of the millions of Long Earth worlds. His old friend, Joshua, now in his fifties, searches for his father and discovers a heretofore unknown family history. And the super-intelligent post-humans known as "the Next" continue to adapt to life among "lesser" humans.But an alarming new challenge looms. An alien planet has somehow become "entangled" with one of the Long Earth worlds and, as Lobsang and Joshua learn, its voracious denizens intend to capture, conquer, and colonize the new universe--the Long Earth--they have inadvertently discovered.World-building, the intersection of universes, the coexistence of diverse species, and the cosmic meaning of the Long Earth itself are among the mind-expanding themes explored in this exciting new installment of Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's extraordinary Long Earth series.

Terry Pratchett

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He was a famous English writer who for over three decades has fascinated millions of readers around the world with his fantastic, funny, and satirical novels. His prolific work includes about seventy books, which have been translated into almost forty languages, and has sold more than eighty-five million copies worldwide.

In 2009, he was knighted by the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his services to literature. His secret? Nothing escaped the smart, relaxed, and ironic gaze of this author who, in the best British satirical tradition, subverted all genres. In addition to being the creator of Discworld and the series of stories set there, he is the author of the standalone novel Dodger and co-author, with Stephen Baxter, of the Long Earth series.

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