Long Earth: The Long War (Audiobook)

from kristen_nicoson

This is a well done sequel to Pratchett's The Long Earth and brings back Joshua, Sally, and the ubiquitous Lobsang some years after the end of the first book. It is an interesting commentary on war, independence, empire, and manifest destiny which also makes one think about tricky subjects such a...

from IAmAndyPieters

Joshua embarks on another adventure after word got out of Troll mistreatment and abuse. Meanwhile a war threatens when many worlds join forces and declare their independence from the datum. Another brilliant marriage of Terry Pratchett's and Stephen Baxter's creative minds. I look forward to the ...

from pierthinker

The Long War is the second volume in the Long Earth series and continues where the opening volume, The Long Earth, left off. Essentially, the whole series is just one long story, so jumping in at this point may leave the reader a little confused or, at least, less focused on what matters in this ...

from annasazi

I liked this one even more than book one. Now that humanity has become more established in the stepwise worlds, relations between Datum and the rest have become more complicated, an people are encountering more sentient life abroad. Conditions are right for a war, except they are also exactly rig...

from shabacus

Much like the first volume, The Long Earth, this is a book about a concept, not about the players involved. The reader is expected to remember the faces from the previous book, as well as the concept, and the result is a book that gets much quicker off the mark. And although it never quite lives ...