Paperback, 400 pages
Published July 1, 2013 by Doubleday UK.
A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth – but in turn the Long Earth is shaping mankind ... A new ‘America’, called Valhalla, is emerging more than a million steps from Datum Earth, with core American values restated in the plentiful environment of the Long Earth – and Valhalla is growing restless under the control of the Datum government... Meanwhile the Long Earth is suffused by the song of the trolls, graceful hive-mind humanoids. But the trolls are beginning to react to humanity’s thoughtless exploitation ... Joshua, now a married man, is summoned by Lobsang to deal with a gathering multiple crisis that threatens to plunge the Long Earth into a war unlike …
A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth – but in turn the Long Earth is shaping mankind ... A new ‘America’, called Valhalla, is emerging more than a million steps from Datum Earth, with core American values restated in the plentiful environment of the Long Earth – and Valhalla is growing restless under the control of the Datum government... Meanwhile the Long Earth is suffused by the song of the trolls, graceful hive-mind humanoids. But the trolls are beginning to react to humanity’s thoughtless exploitation ... Joshua, now a married man, is summoned by Lobsang to deal with a gathering multiple crisis that threatens to plunge the Long Earth into a war unlike any mankind has waged before.
Nosso herói Joshua Valienté agora é um homem casado e com um filho mas a Terra Longa continua a chamá-lo para suas aventuras. Somos apresentados a novos personagens, novas raças e novos mundos, agora explorados por uma frota chinesa que pretende chegar à marca de 20 milhões.
This is book number two in the Long Earth series, a tale about parallel universes that can be accessed by 'stepping' sideways.
This series has grown on me more and more as I've read it. It is more than just a story about parallel universes; it is a story about what it means to be human, with Artificial Intelligences based on former living humans, regular people, and creatures so similar to humans, and yet so different. In fact, it is a story about more than just what it means to be human, it is a story about what it means to be sapient. It covers issues from how we affect our environment, to what we consider to be sapient life that deserves the same rights as humans, to how much control an AI should assume over others.
Along the way, with the serious …
This is book number two in the Long Earth series, a tale about parallel universes that can be accessed by 'stepping' sideways.
This series has grown on me more and more as I've read it. It is more than just a story about parallel universes; it is a story about what it means to be human, with Artificial Intelligences based on former living humans, regular people, and creatures so similar to humans, and yet so different. In fact, it is a story about more than just what it means to be human, it is a story about what it means to be sapient. It covers issues from how we affect our environment, to what we consider to be sapient life that deserves the same rights as humans, to how much control an AI should assume over others.
Along the way, with the serious scientific stuff I expect from Stephen Baxter, you can expect a good dose of humor Terry Pratchett style. I can't recommend this series enough.
