The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)

Posted on 09 January 2017 by Terry Pratchett

From the back jacket NORMALLY, WHEN THERE WAS NOTHING TO DO, HE LISTENED TO THE SILENCE.The Silence was very faint here Almost drowned out by the sounds of the mundane world Did people in this polished building understand how noisy it was The roar of air conditioners and computer fans, the susurration of many voices heard but not decipherable This was the office of the transEarth Institute, an arm of the Black Corporation The faceless office, all plasterboard and chrome, was dominated by a huge logo, a chesspiece knight This wasn t Joshua s world None of it was his world In fact, when you got right down to it, he didn t have a world he had all of them.ALL OF THE LONG EARTH From the inside jacket The possibilites are endless Just be careful what you wish for 1916 The Western Front Private Percy Blakeney wakes up He is lying on fresh spring grass He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves Where has the mud, blood and blasted landscape of no man s land gone For that matter, where has Percy gone 2015 Madison, Wisconsin Police officer Monica Jansson is exploring the burned out home of a reclusive some said mad, others allege dangerous scientist who seems to have vanished Sifting through the wreckage, Jansson finds a curious gadget a box containing some rudimentary wiring, a three way switch, anda potato It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way humankind views the world forever.The first novel in an exciting new collaboration between Discworld creator Terry Pratchett and the acclaimed SF writer Stephen Baxter, The Long Earth transports readers to the ends of the earth and far beyond All it takes is a single step. Download The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1) – kino-fada.fr Everyone loves Sir Terry I love Sir Terry I love the books have great respect for the man This review is simply my opinion of the success of this particular collaboration I ll be 1st in line for the next T.P book and I d even give T.P S.B another go From the slew of 4 5 reviews already on show I may be out on a limb on this one so don t listen to me give it a try Collaboration It s a word with an unfortunate aftertaste Collaborators get a bad rap Sir Terry Everyone loves Sir Terry I love Sir Terry I love the books have great respect for the man This review is simply my opinion of the success of this particular collaboration I ll be 1st in line...Science fiction is full of stories that go backwards and forwards they swing through the spectrum of time and explore the popular trope in all its possibilities Pratchett and Baxter, on the other hand, step sideways.The Long Earth is a seemingly endless series of alternate realities with Earth being the focal point By using a Stepper, a piece of technology that is powered by a potato Pratchett at work no doubt , the user can travel along the spectrum of Earths and step foot on thousands of d Science fiction is full of stories that go backwards and forwards they swing through the spectrum of time and explore the popular trope in all its possibilities Pratchett and Baxter, on the other hand, step sideways.The Long Earth is a seemingly endless series of alternate realities with Earth being the focal point By using a Stepper, a piece of technology that is powered by a potato Pratchett at work no doubt , the user can travel along the spectrum of Earths and step foot on thousands of different versions of their home world Needless to say, the scope of such a thing is huge and the possibilities extraordinary Anything could be out there on one of these Earths Just imagine an Earth new and fresh, green and full of life, one that hasn t yet been harvested by ma...The next world is the thickness of a thought away This co authored book Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter is a wonderful idea, lovingly executed The Long Earth refers to the discovery of infinite dimensions all next door to one another.When a scientist publishes the blueprint for a stepper a device that can allow you to step from Earth to the next dimension Earth 1 and from there onto the next Earth Earth 2 and the next online free for all to use, in order to thwart a greedy corpThe next world is the thickness of a thought away This co authored book Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter is a wonderful idea, lovingly executed The Long Earth refers to the discovery of infinite dimensions all next door to one another.When a scientist publishes the blueprint for a stepper a device that can allow you to step from Earth to the next dimension Earth 1 and from there onto the next Earth Earth 2 and the next online free for all to use, in order to thwart a greedy corporation s attempt to capitalize on it it changes th...The main thing that made me interested in reading this would be the promising premise It offered a million possibilities, and I was not disappointed While the novel was not perfect, it was still an amazing novel that promises evenexciting things to come in the next novels in the series.Embarrassingly I haven t read any of the Discworld novels of Pratchett, and none of Baxter s novels too While anything space related has caught my interest ever since i was young, I haven t invested mysel The main thing that made me interested in reading this would be the promising premise It offered a million possibilities, and I was not disappointed While the novel was not perfect, it was still an amazing novel that promises evenexciting things to come in the next novels in the series.Embarrassingly I haven t read any of the Discworld novels of Pratchett, and none of Baxter s novels too While anything space related has caught my interest ever since i w...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here I really wanted to like this book Turns out I liked parts of it The idea of millions of Earths branching out from ours a variation on different choices creating different realities is pretty cool, as is the mechanism by which people reach them Pratchett and Baxter gave a lot of thought to how the Earth might have developed differently under different circumstances, such as the lack of a moon altering tides and climate or even failing to deflect large asteroids from the planet I also liked I really wanted to like this book Turns out I liked parts of it The idea of millions of Earths branching out from ours a variation on different choices creating different realities is pretty cool, as is the mechanism by which people reach them Pratchett and Baxter gave a lot of thought to how the Earth might have developed differently under different circumstances, such as the lack of a moon altering tides and climate or even failing to deflect large asteroids from the planet I also liked the vignettes interspersed with the main plot, about how the discovery of Stepping affected ordinary people The characters were charming and the aliens were interesting, if not particularly original.Unfortunately, what should have been the high point of the story fell flat The mystery of who or what they re going to find at the far end of the Long Earth grows increasingly suspenseful and then the...It is hard for scientists even to talk about the Long Earth without babbling about m brane manifolds and quantum multiverses It would be hard for Stephen Baxter to resist waxing lyrical about quantum whatsits I suppose I read his Xeelee omnibus and only understood half of the science expositions and that is an optimistic estimate However, with The Long Earth Baxter has the late great Terry Pratchett to help make the science partpalatable and also infuse the novel with the magic of hiIt is hard for scientists even to talk about the Long Earth without babbling about m brane manifolds and quantum multiverses It would be hard for Stephen Baxter to resist waxing lyrical about quantum whatsits I suppose I read his Xeelee omnibus and only understood half of the science expositions and that is an optimistic estimate However, with The Long Earth Baxter has the late great Terry Pratchett to help make the science partpalatable and also infuse the novel with the magic of his wit, characterization, and of course, humour I have not read the Baxter Clarke collaborations yet coming soon , but they seem to be very like minded gentlemen, and while I look forward to reading some mind blowing super science from their books I think the pairing with Pratchett seems like a muchdynamic combination two...In 2015 humanity discovers a potato powered device that enables it to travel to parallel worlds While most people need these devices, there are some natural steppers who don t need them, and also some that can t step at all, having to be carried over by others.Fast forward a few years Natural stepper Joshua Valiente, along with Lobsang the super computer, decide to test the limits of these parallel worlds and go on the journey of their ugh lives In the meantime, the rest of huma In 2015 humanity discovers a potato powered device that enables it to travel to parallel worlds While most people need these devices, there are some natural steppers who don t need them, and also some that can t step at all, having to be carried over by others.Fast forward a few years Natural stepper Joshua Valiente, along with Lobsang the super computer, decide to test the limits of these parallel worlds and go on the journey of their ugh lives In the meantime, the rest of humanity decides it s time to start over, and begin colonizing the newly discovered worlds or at least that s the plan Nature however, seems to have a few choice words about that Oh and there s also the humans left behind due to their inability to step, who don t ...A did not finish read.I think, in its way, this could be regarded as a form of apocalyptica A device allowing easy jumping to countless alternate worlds conveniently free of human populations is invented Many people embrace this passionately, and rush off to stake their claim in a land rush with no visible end game A small percentage can t go and others don t want to, but the effect of this mass dispersal is economies collapsing, new religions, fighting among old religions It s a book ab A did not finish read.I think, in its way, this could be regarded as a form of apocalyptica A device allowing easy jumping to countless alternate worlds conveniently free of human populations is invented Many people embrace this passionately, and rush off to stake their claim in a land rush with no visible end game A small percentage can t go and others don t want to, but the effect of this mass dispersal is economies collapsing, new religions, fighting among old religions It s a book about global change.The book doesn t focus on a single person, showing us the experiences of a half dozen or so, and headhops through a bunch , but the primary character is Joshua, one of the first to hop, and also a natural hopper, able to travel without the device He s an orphan, and inclined to be a major loner, an...I did not expect that much going into this book, I was just hoping for a fun fluffy read I borrowed it from the library, so the worst case scenario was returning it unfinished But I was surprised and delighted by this novel and I m jumping right into the next book.In a plot that you may feel has been done to death, a mad scientist disappears and leaves instructions to build a stepping device on the internet Kids throughout the world make a copy and end up travelling into a parallel world It I did not expect that much going into this book, I was just hoping for a fun fluffy read I borrowed it from the library, so the worst case scenario was returning it unfinished But I was surprised and delighted by this novel and I m jumping right int...You know how famous authors will occasionally complain about how readers will come up to them at cons and tell them that they have this amazing idea for a book the author should write the reader s idea, and then they can split the money The moral to this kind of story is always that this is a ridiculously ignorant concept ideas are easy, it s execution that s hard.This is a novel in which two extremely prolific authors forgot this Well, to be honest, calling this a novel strikes me as gene You know how famous authors will occasionally complain about how readers will come up to them at cons and tell them that they have this amazing idea for a book the author should write the reader s idea, and then they can split the money The moral to this kind of story is always that this is a ridiculously ignorant concept ideas are easy, it s execution that s hard.This is a novel in which two extremely prolific authors forgot this Well, to be honest, calling this a novel strikes me as generous There are some people in it I ve seen ten page short stories that featuredmemorable characters with better developed arcs Some things happen, but they re not really so much a plot as just some events, with some slightly bigger events kinda near the end that don t actually resolve anything There are settings oh, so many settings But while each one has the potential to be a thought experiment, in actuality, each one receives a brie...

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09 January 2017

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