Penguin The Long Earth 5 Books Collection Set by Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter

The Long Earth 5 Books Collection Set By Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter

Titles in the Set:

• The long earth
• The long war
• The long mars
• The long utopia
• The long cosmos

The long earth

1916: the Western Front. 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.

The long war

A generation after the events of The Long Earth; mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua 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.

The long mars

2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds.

The long utopia

2045-2059. After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth; and society; on a battered Datum Earth and beyond; continues to evolve. Now an elderly and cantankerous AI; Lobsang lives in disguise with Agnes in an exotic; far-distant world.

The long cosmos

Bit by bit; byte by byte; they assemble a computer the size of a continent - a device that will alter the Long Earth's place within the cosmos and reveal the ultimate; life-affirming goal of those who sent the Message