The Long Earth by Stephen Baxter & Terry Pratchett - Fantasy - SFBookcase.com - Reference of Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels/Authors.

Series: Misc
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0062067753
Pages: 352 pages
Publisher: Harper
Price: $25.99
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The Long Earth by Stephen Baxter & Terry Pratchett

Description: The UK's bestselling adult novelist and agiant of British science fiction combine forces to write the first novel in an astonishing, mind-bending new series...The Long Earth1916: 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 in the trees. Where have the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive - some said mad, others dangerous - scientist when she finds a curious gadget - abox containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a...potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way Mankind views his world for ever. And that's an understatement if ever there was one...The Long Earth is the first novel in an exciting new collaboration between the creator of Discworld Terry Pratchett and the acclaimed SFwriter Stephen Baxter