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  • Published: 20 June 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448127054
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 512
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The Long War

(Long Earth 2)




From the combined talents of the UK's bestselling novelist and a giant of British science fiction comes the sequel to the phenomenal No.1 bestseller The Long Earth...

'An absorbing collaborative effort from the two giants of SF' Guardian

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 ... A new ‘America’, called Valhalla, is emerging more than a million steps from Datum Earth, and it is growing restless . . .

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 . . .

And a gathering multiple crisis that threatens to plunge the Long Earth into a war unlike any mankind has waged before.
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The Long War is the second in The Long Earth series.

  • Published: 20 June 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448127054
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 512
Categories:

About the authors

Terry Pratchett

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. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. He died in March 2015.

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Stephen Baxter

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' The Time Machine. He lives in Northumberland.

Praise for The Long War

A novel about love, in all its heartbreaking and splendid forms

Kirkus Reviews

This poignant romance is sure to thrill her many loyal fans and reach many new readers, too

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