Book description
The UK's bestselling adult novelist and a giant of British science
fiction combine forces to write the first novel in an astonishing,
mind-bending new series...The Long Earth
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 in the trees. Where have the mud, blood and blasted
landscape of No Man's Land gone?
2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the
burned-out home of a reclusive - some said mad, others dangerous -
scientist when she finds a curious gadget - a box containing some
wiring, a three-way switch and a...potato. It is the prototype of an
invention that will change the way Mankind views his world for ever.
And that's an understatement if ever there was one...
The Long Earth is the first novel in an exciting new
collaboration between the creator of Discworld Terry Pratchett and the
acclaimed SF writer Stephen Baxter
Author of the bestselling Discworld series, Terry Pratchett
is one of the UK's most popular - and bestselling - writers. His books
have sold over 65 million copies worldwide and been translated in to
nearly 40 languages. He was awarded an OBE in 1998 and knighted in
2009 for his services to literature. He lives in Wiltshire.
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 A Time Odyssey novels
(written with Arthur C. Clarke) and The Time Ships, a sequel to
H G Wells' The Time Machine. He lives in Northumberland.
