The fourth novel in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxters 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 Io- Human society continues to evolve on Datum Earth its battered and weary origin planet as the spread of humanity progresses throughout the many Earths beyondLobsang 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 humansBut 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 universethe Long Earththey have inadvertently discoveredWorld-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 Baxters extraordinary Long Earth series.
