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.
