Book:The Long Earth
Book:The Long Earth | |
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Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | Jun 2012 |
ISBN | 0857520091 |
Pages | |
RRP | £18.99 |
Main characters | Percy Blakeney, Monica Jansson, Willis Linsay |
Series | [[:Category:|]] |
Annotations | View |
Notes | with Stephen Baxter |
All data relates to the first UK edition. |
Announced for 20th June 2013 in UK and 23rd July 2013 in US.
Blurb
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.