Book:The Long Earth

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Book:The Long Earth
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Publisher Doubleday
Publication date Jun 2012
ISBN 0857520091
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RRP £18.99
Main characters Percy Blakeney, Monica Jansson, Willis Linsay
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All data relates to the first UK edition.

Announced for 20th June 2013 in UK and 23rd July 2013 in US.

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The follow-up to The Long Earth...

A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where [[Joshua]Joshua Valient'e] and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth -- but in turn the Long Earth is shaping mankind... A new ‘America’, called Valhalla, is emerging more than a million steps from Datum Earth, with core American values restated in the plentiful environment of the Long Earth -- and Valhalla is growing restless under the control of the Datum government...

Meanwhile the Long Earth is suffused by the song of the trolls, graceful hive-mind humanoids. But the trolls are beginning to react to humanity’s thoughtless exploitation... [[Joshua]Joshua Valient'e]], now a married man, is summoned by Lobsang to deal with a gathering multiple crisis that threatens to plunge the Long Earth into a war unlike any mankind has waged before.

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