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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 o Leggi tutto

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 bei Leggi tutto

"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" - Leggi tutto

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 even more exciting things to come in the next novels in the series. Embar Leggi tutto

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 t Leggi tutto

“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 Leggi tutto

In 2015 humanity discovers a (potato-powered) device that enables it to travel to parallel worlds. While most people need these devices to travel between worlds (i.e. step ), there are natural steppers who don't rely on them, and also some that can't step at all, having to be carried over by others. N Leggi tutto

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 ridi Leggi tutto

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 b Leggi tutto

This is the second time I'm reading this book but the first time I tried the audio. And I can happily report that both forms are great. The Long Earth series is not one of those action-laden scifi stories. Rather, it's more of a smart and funny thought experiment with the occasional action - making i Leggi tutto