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Original Title:	The Long Earth
ISBN:	0062067753 (ISBN13: 9780062067753)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Long Earth #1
Literary Awards:	Goodreads Choice Award for Science Fiction (2012)

The Long Earth (The Long Earth #1)

Terry Pratchett

Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 3.76 | 48598 Users | 4717 Reviews

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NORMALLY, WHEN THERE WAS NOTHING TO DO, HE LISTENED TO THE SILENCE.

The Silence was very faint here. Almost drowned out by the sounds of the mundane world. Did people in this polished building understand how noisy it was? The roar of air conditioners and computer fans, the susurration of many voices heard but not decipherable.... This was the office of the transEarth Institute, an arm of the Black Corporation. The faceless office, all plasterboard and chrome, was dominated by a huge logo, a chesspiece knight. This wasn't Joshua's world. None of it was his world. In fact, when you got right down to it, he didn't have a world; he had all of them.

ALL OF THE LONG EARTH.

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The possibilites are endless. Just be careful what you wish for....)

1916: The Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves. Where has the mud, blood and blasted landscape of no-man's-land gone? For that matter, where has Percy gone?

2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Police officer Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive--some said mad, others allege dangerous--scientist who seems to have vanished. Sifting through the wreckage, Jansson finds a curious gadget: a box containing some rudimentary wiring, a three-way switch, and...a potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way humankind views the world forever.

The first novel in an exciting new collaboration between Discworld creator Terry Pratchett and the acclaimed SF writer Stephen Baxter, The Long Earth transports readers to the ends of the earth and far beyond. All it takes is a single step....

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Title	:	The Long Earth (The Long Earth #1)
Author	:	Terry Pratchett
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	June 19th 2012 by HarperCollins Harper
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fantasy. Fiction

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Everyone loves Sir Terry. I love Sir Terry. I love the books & have great respect for the man. This review is simply my opinion of the success of this particular collaboration. I'll be 1st in line for the next T.P book and I'd even give T.P + S.B another go. From the slew of 4 & 5* reviews already on show I may be out on a limb on this one - so don't listen to me - give it a try.-------------Collaboration. Its a word with an unfortunate aftertaste. Collaborators get a bad rap. Sir Terry

Science fiction is full of stories that go backwards and forwards; they swing through the spectrum of time and explore the popular trope in all its possibilities. Pratchett and Baxter, on the other hand, step sideways.The Long Earth is a seemingly endless series of alternate realities with Earth being the focal point. By using a Stepper, a piece of technology that is powered by a potato (Pratchett at work no doubt), the user can travel along the spectrum of Earths and step foot on thousands of

I finished The Long Earth yesterday, and came to see what others thought, and in many respects I agree; The Long Earth has an incredibly novel premise, but a storyline that in the end, doesn't really go anywhere (no pun intended).The book essentially offers a thought exercise of what would happen if relatively unlimited inter-planetary (or more correctly, inter-dimensional) travel were available to the masses on Earth. What would people do? Would there be a mass exodus? Would people try to



Dedications:For Lynn and Rhianna, as always - TPFor Sandra - SBOpening: IN A FOREST GLADE.Private Percy woke up to birdsong. It was a long time since he had heard birdsong, the guns saw to that. For a while he was content to lie there in the blissful quiet.A third of the way through and am not enjoying. I know, it's PTerry, but seriously this is not doing it for me.I'll have a break from it for a while - maybe curosity will get the better of me.

This was quite the infuriating book to end up enjoying. A strange blend of young adult and science fiction written for the novice and almost as many pop culture references as Ernest Cline. If I'd only been informed in advance to expect a young adult novel I would have been less annoyed, Pratchett has written some of the very best YA there is, but as it stands this is apparently a book for adults. Stephen Baxter has written some of the most complex science fiction I've ever picked up let alone

Like others, I'm often a bit skeptical about collaborations between authors, be they both well-known authors or not. In this case, I was very worried because their styles are very different and they take an amazing jump between hard-SF and character-driven world-building fantasy.HOWEVER, I couldn't be more pleased with the combo. I was thrilled by the characters and felt the wonderful sense of adventure and then suspense as things got dire. And that's just it. We get the best of both worlds, the