The Long Earth Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter This first collaboration between Pratchett and Baxter is the initial offering of a proposed trilogy. The books events are spun into motion when a scientist mysteriously disappears leaving behind him instructions on how to build a device that allows people to ‘step’ to parallel versions of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,50,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-3","category-books","category-fiction","category-rated","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1130,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"the](\"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/the-long-earth-by-terry-pratchett-and-stephen-baxter-97x150.jpg\" "\\"the")
<\/span>This first collaboration between Pratchett and Baxter is the initial offering of a proposed trilogy.
\nThe books events are spun into motion when a scientist mysteriously disappears leaving behind him instructions on how to build a device that allows people to ‘step’ to parallel versions of the Earth.
\nA vital point to make is that this is a pretty straight ahead science fiction novel mostly free from Pratchett’s trademark humour. Set your expectations accordingly.
\nThis is a promising book but it does spend a hell of a lot of time setting things up and provides not much in the way of payoff. I do like the central character of Joshua Valiente a lot and I will be keen to pick up the sequel when it comes out.
\nI can only recommend the book if you’re prepared to commit yourself to the full series. If you’re a fan of Pratchett or Baxter (I’m a fan of both) then I think you really should make the necessary commitment.\n<\/p>\n