The Long Mars
(Long Earth 3)
Terry Pratchett author Stephen Baxter author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Published:9th Apr '15
Should be back in stock very soon
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. .
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The Long Mars is the third in The Long Earth series.
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'Imaginative, sense-of-wonder at its best . . . thrilling stuff from the masters' Independent on Sunday
'A thrilling and ceaselessly entertaining ride' SFX
2040-2045: 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 . . .
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The Long Mars is the third in the Long Earthseries.
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 *
ISBN: 9780552169356
Dimensions: 198mm x 127mm x 27mm
Weight: 304g
448 pages