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The Long Mars
by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
It is now 2040 and on datum Earth the Yellowstone Caldera has finally blown. Most of the population is fleeing to other Long Earth worlds, and it is causing huge disruption. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are helping those that cannot step easily and getting them to safe havens. Out of nowhere Sally is contacted by her father, Willis Lindsay, the creator of the original Stepper. He is planning on going to Mars, and wants Sally to come along.
Whilst this is happening, the US Navy is intending on going to the very limits of the Long Earth, stepping through thousands of parallel world to explore and locate a previous mission. But humanity also has a challenger; the Next. These super bright people have evolved in these new parallel worlds and have a natural ability to step, and a lot of them are living their new community, Happy Landings, deep in the Long Earth. People see them as a threat.
As we follow them on their journeys, we see the new and wondrous things that they discover; new life, hostile environments, new landscapes and occasional threats. They don’t stop that often, preferring to skip through the worlds at a frantic rate. The Next have been collected onto one world and are being prevented from moving off it as they pose the biggest threat to humanity, but others think differently and think they should be free.
Much preferred this book to the second in the series. The three loosely interwoven stories are wrapping up details and plotlines from the first and second books and are opening up new threads to be continued. Sadly wasn’t quite as good as the first. Writing about people crossing worlds can drag a little, and it could have had more about the worlds where they do stop. I did like the nod to Clarke and Herbert with some of the things that they find. More interesting is the new step in evolution for humanity. Looking forward to where the story is going to go in the next two books.
Whilst this is happening, the US Navy is intending on going to the very limits of the Long Earth, stepping through thousands of parallel world to explore and locate a previous mission. But humanity also has a challenger; the Next. These super bright people have evolved in these new parallel worlds and have a natural ability to step, and a lot of them are living their new community, Happy Landings, deep in the Long Earth. People see them as a threat.
As we follow them on their journeys, we see the new and wondrous things that they discover; new life, hostile environments, new landscapes and occasional threats. They don’t stop that often, preferring to skip through the worlds at a frantic rate. The Next have been collected onto one world and are being prevented from moving off it as they pose the biggest threat to humanity, but others think differently and think they should be free.
Much preferred this book to the second in the series. The three loosely interwoven stories are wrapping up details and plotlines from the first and second books and are opening up new threads to be continued. Sadly wasn’t quite as good as the first. Writing about people crossing worlds can drag a little, and it could have had more about the worlds where they do stop. I did like the nod to Clarke and Herbert with some of the things that they find. More interesting is the new step in evolution for humanity. Looking forward to where the story is going to go in the next two books.