The Long Mars: (Long Earth 3)

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· Random House
4.3
284 reviews
Ebook
448
Pages

About this ebook

'Imaginative, sense-of-wonder at its best . . . thrilling stuff from the masters' Independent on Sunday

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

Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across the Long Mars and wants her to accompany him. But he is not what he seems.

For Joshua, the crisis he faces is much closer to home. He becomes embroiled in the plight of the Next: the super-bright post-humans who are beginning to emerge from their 'long childhood' in a hidden community located deep in the Long Earth. Ignorance and fear are causing 'normal' human society to turn against the Next - and a dramatic showdown seems inevitable . . .
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The Long Mars is the third in The Long Earth series.

Ratings and reviews

4.3
284 reviews
Family Penberthy
December 14, 2014
Most notable thing I found in this series was that all the characters seem to emotionless drones, ,"abandon family to go on pointless trek, for no apparent reason" or "nuke or nonuke village, decide then have a drink". Zero depth characters who didn't seem to be that bothered by what was happening in the story, consequently nether did I. Read, don't read, whatever.
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James Dodd
November 7, 2022
I don't think this book has anything to do with Terry pratchett apart from using his name to sell more copies. A poor book with no character depth and certainly none of his whit, keep away if you expect disc World material or anything even similar.
Ted Giles
August 14, 2014
It starts out interesting and quickly falls apart. The threads are not completed and it reads as if the writer just lost interest in where the story was going, so they started a new one. It is a bit like the Famous Five sketch when Snowy got run over. "Never mind, we can get another dog" said the kids and off they went on a different tangential adventure. I'm a huge TP fan and have everything he wrote. This collaboration has one too many authors in it.

About the author

Terry Pratchett (Author)
Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books which have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood for services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.

www.terrypratchettbooks.com

Stephen Baxter (Author)
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 Time's Odyssey novels (written with Arthur C. Clarke) and Time Ships, a sequel to H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine, a Doctor Who novel, The Wheel of Ice, and most recently the epic, far-future novels Proxima and Ultima. He lives in Northumberland.

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