The Long Mars by Stephen Baxter

The Long Mars by Stephen Baxter

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'Imaginative, sense-of-wonder at its best . . . thrilling stuff from the masters' Independent on Sunday 'A thrilling and ceaselessly entertaining ride' SFX 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 . . . ___________________ The Long Mars is the third in the Long Earth series.

Here they come again, Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, skipping along their quantum string of planets like giddy schoolboys - and what a joy it is to have them back. . it's a thrilling and ceaselessly entertaining ride. * SFX magazine *
Imaginative, sense-of-wonder SF at its best . . . thrilling stuff from the masters. * INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY *

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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ISBN 13	9780552169356
ISBN 10	0552169358
Title	The Long Mars
Author	Stephen Baxter
Series	Long Earth
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Transworld Publishers Ltd
Year published	2015-04-09
Number of pages	448
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