The Long Earth: A Novel


Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
9
Narrator
6
Release Date
June 2012
Duration
11 hours 31 minutes
Summary
The first novel in a brilliant collaboration between the visionary Discworld® creator Terry Pratchett and acclaimed science fiction novelist Stephen Baxter, The Long Earth transports readers to an infinity of new worlds—a series of parallel “earths' with doorways leading to adventure, intrigue, excitement, and an escape into the furthest reaches of the imagination. All it takes is a single step. . . .

The possibilities are endless. (Just be careful what you wish for. . . .)

1916: 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. Where have the mud, blood, and blasted landscape of no-man's-land gone? For that matter, where has Percy gone?

2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Police officer Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive—some say mad, others allege dangerous—scientist who seems to have vanished. Sifting through the wreckage, Jansson finds a curious gadget: a box containing some rudimentary wiring, a three-way switch, and . . . a potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way humankind views the world forever.

The Long Earth is an adventure of the highest order and will captivate science fiction fans of all stripes, readers of Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen, and anyone who enjoyed the Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman collaboration Good Omens.

Other books in the Long Earth series include:


The Long War
The Long Mars
The Long Utopia
The Long Cosmos
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Meredith Hilton

The book is excellent. I'm not that much of a science-fiction reader, but this seemed to be a unique story and idea, which held my interest all the way through. It does end very abruptly though, and I would assume that there will be a sequel. I was less pleased with the audiobook production. They chose a British reader for some uknown reason (all the main characters and a majority of the settings are American). So you had to endure this bad American accent (it's the kind often heard, that I don't think actually exists anywhere in the US) for 11 hours. The book is so good that the narration doesn't ruin it, but it definitely impeded my enjoyment and caused a lot of groaning.

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