Long Earth The Long Utopia, (Paperback)

from ChrisRiesbeck

The Long Xxx series has suffered from the "more is less" problem. Each book upped the count of the number of alternate Earths visited, so that each Earth became just a glimpse. Dozens of glimpses does not one good story make. Adding Mars into the mix in The Long Mars just made things worse. Each ...

from DeusXMachina

My SO got me this book without realising it was part of a series, and trusting in their common sense I also started to read it without realising that it was part of a series. It worked anyway. Of course I missed some worldbuilding and backstory of characters that were obviously already well estab...

from PDCRead

Humanity has reached the middle of the twenty first century. Datum Earth is never really recovered from the battering of the Yellowstone caldera and has slowly moved further into the Long Earths, and started to settle. Lobsang is now an elderly and tetchy AI, living on Springfield, an exotic eart...

from MyopicBookworm

I borrowed this from the library, being unable to tell clearly from the slight hints on the cover or in the front matter that it was the fourth in a series, so I read it as a standalone novel. There is enough dropping of information to enable the piecing together of the backstory (though frankly ...

from pierthinker

The Long Earth series is remarkable in several ways. The books bring together the hard science, mythic characterisation and whimsical detail we should expect from the eminent authors (Pratchett and Baxter applying their respective literary strengths) alongside an underlying concept of great imagi...