The Long Utopia A Novel
The Long Utopia A Novel by Terry Pratchett is the fourth installment in the “Long Earth” series, published by HarperCollins on June 23, 2015. This illustrated edition spans 368 pages and is presented in English. The narrative unfolds between 2045 and 2059, depicting the evolution of human society on Datum Earth and the exploration of numerous alternate Earths.
Readers will encounter Lobsang, an elderly AI navigating life in disguise, and Joshua, who embarks on a quest to uncover his family history. As they face a new threat from an alien planet that has become entangled with the Long Earth, themes of world-building, the coexistence of diverse species, and the cosmic implications of the Long Earth are intricately woven throughout the story. This edition invites readers to delve into the complexities of existence across multiple realities while exploring the challenges posed by the unknown.
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The fourth novel in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter’s internationally bestselling “Long Earth” series, hailed as “a brilliant science fiction collaboration . . . a love letter to all Pratchett fans, readers, and lovers of wonder everywhere” (Io9).
2045-2059. Human society continues to evolve on Datum Earth, its battered and weary origin planet, as the spread of humanity progresses throughout the many Earths beyond.
Lobsang, now an elderly and complex AI, suffers a breakdown, and disguised as a human attempts to live a “normal” life on one of the millions of Long Earth worlds. His old friend, Joshua, now in his fifties, searches for his father and discovers a heretofore unknown family history. And the super-intelligent post-humans known as “the Next” continue to adapt to life among “lesser” humans.
But an alarming new challenge looms. An alien planet has somehow become “entangled” with one of the Long Earth worlds and, as Lobsang and Joshua learn, its voracious denizens intend to capture, conquer, and colonize the new universe—the Long Earth—they have inadvertently discovered.
World-building, the intersection of universes, the coexistence of diverse species, and the cosmic meaning of the Long Earth itself are among the mind-expanding themes explored in this exciting new installment of Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter’s extraordinary Long Earth series.
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