A review by karl53
The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter

4.0

Haven't read much Pratchett. My son's a DiscWorld fan. I never read any of those books. The Long Earth is a great premise about parallel universes and traveling between them. Exploration of our (aka Datum) universe has come to a virtual halt as humanity spreads out into adjacent slices of reality to seek adventure and fortune on parallel earths. Some of the parallel universes are very similar to our own. Others not so much. People travel to the alternate universe using a "stepper". Some folks don't need a stepper and are called natural steppers. Some folks can't step even with the stepper machine. Are things to good to be true? Maybe... The main characters, Joshua Valienté a natual stepper and Lopsang, an artificial intelligence, travel to the far reaches of the Long Earth. They learn more about human species that evolved their stepping sense rather than evolving as humans did in our universe. The also find that these hominids are fleeing something. Unfortunately Terry Pratchett has passed away, but looks like Stephen Baxter has continued the series. I want to read them.