Now in paperback - The Long Earth - the first novel in an astonishing, mind-bending new series by the combined talents of the UK's bestselling novelist and a giant of British science fiction.
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.
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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.
By turns thrillingly expansive, joyously inventive and utterly
engrossing *****.
*SFX magazine*
An absorbing collaborative effort from two SF giants...a marriage
made in fan heaven - Pratchett's warmth and humanity allied to
Baxter's extraordinarily fertile science-fictional
imagination...there's much to enjoy...a charming, absorbing and
somehow spacious piece of imagineering
*GUARDIAN*
The idea of parallel Earths is one of the most enduring that
science fiction has given us, but rarely has it been explored with
quite so much gusto as in this new novel by two of the giants of
British speculative fiction...a triumph...accessible, fun and
thoughtful
*INDEPENDENT*
***** Literary alchemy...In the hands of Pratchett and Baxter, the
possibilites are almost infinite...a story that revels in big
ideas...you can sense the excitement of the authors as they toy
with the labyrinthine possibilities of their premise, and it's
infectious...thrillingly expansive, joyously inventive and utterly
engrossing
*SFX*
[Pratchett] succeeds in working seamlessly with Baxter...adding a
welcome shot of fun to the world of science fiction
*SUNDAY TIMES*
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