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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.
The Long Utopia (The Long Earth Book 4), by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter - Amazon Sales Rank: #47508 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-06-23
- Released on: 2015-06-23
- Format: Kindle eBook
The Long Utopia (The Long Earth Book 4), by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter Review "There's plenty of fun to be had from this ... a hymn to the joys of unfettered world-building ... but if the pace of plotting is gentle, the restless inventiveness more than compensates." -- Adam Roberts GUARDIAN "Rich in an awe-inspiring sense of wonder, with mind-boggling concepts thrown out like sparks from a Catherine wheel." -- Barry Forshaw INDEPENDENT "A triumph ... brings fresh and exciting concepts to an SF staple (paralell worlds) while keeping credible human characters at their heart ... as testament both to the diversity of Sir Terry Pratchett's writing, and the skill of Stephen Baxter's, The Long Earth series deserves a place on the bookshelves of hardcore SF fans and general readers alike." -- David Barnett INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY "The Long Earth novels are beautifully visual and wittily imagined ... The Long Utopia ... serves to remind us just how bewitching and rich this series is, how beautiful is its writing, and vivid its imagination." FOR WINTER NIGHTS "There's the sense of two enviably talented writers having fun as they play in an infinite fictional universe." -- Jonathan Wright SFX
From the Back Cover
It is the middle of the 21st century
After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption, humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth. Society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to evolve.
And new challenges emerge.
Now an elderly and cantankerous AI, Lobsang is living with Agnes in an exotic, far-distant world. He’s determined to lead a normal life in New Springfield—they even adopt a child. But there are rumors, strange sightings in the sky.
On this world, something isn’t right . . .
Millions of steps away—learning about a hidden family history and the father he never knew—Joshua receives an urgent summons from New Springfield.
Lobsang has come to understand that what has blighted his Earth is a threat to all the worlds of the Long Earth. To counter this threat will require the combined efforts of humankind, machine, and the superintelligent Next.
And some must make the ultimate sacrifice . . .
About the Author TERRY PRATCHETT is the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. Raising Steam is his fortieth Discworld novel. His books have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he is the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. After falling out with his keyboard he now talks to his computer. Occasionally, these days, it answers back. STEPHEN BAXTER is one of the UK's most acclaimed writers of science fiction and a multi-award winner. His many books include the classic Xeelee sequence, the Time's Odyssey novels (written with Arthur C. Clarke) and Time Ships, a sequel to H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, a Doctor Who novel, The Wheel of Ice, and most recently the epic, far-future novels Proxima and Ultima. He lives in Northumberland.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful. Puts the series back on track By Konundrm First, I'll get off my chest the very aggravating issues of this book's Kindle cost. I'd planned to read this book on a vacation, and was shocked at the $15.99 price tag when I went to download it. Shame on me for not having a plan B for my reading, I guess. Nonetheless, this is an unreasonable price point; and sadly the cynic in me wonders if it is not to profit off of Terry Pratchett's recent death. That said, I won't deduct stars from my review, as other reviewers have done, since the quality of the book will stand on its own long after the greed of the publishers has been sated.Now, on to the book. (no spoilers) The Long Utopia is a vast improvement over the arid travelogue that was The Long Mars. The Long Utopia has a solid story arc that carries through the whole book and keeps the reader engaged until the dramatic end. Many of the same characters show up, as you'd expect, but mostly the major characters. Previous editions had minor characters improbably thrown into the plot mix; there's a bit of that here, but not as much, at least references to previous characters didn't seem as forced.The book is a quick read, and doesn't get too bogged down in scientific narrative. There are a number of big ideas in the book as you'd expect, and many of them could, I suspect, carry over into future volumes. At first, I was dismayed that many of the plot devices of the previous books were ignored or forgotten in this book. However, about halfway through the book, I came to the conclusion that this series of books is a lot like the idea of the Long Earth itself - an infinite palette of worlds on which to tell an infinite number of stories. I discovered it's a lot more enjoyable to enjoy the stories as they come rather than waiting for all the threads to tie together into some kind of epistemological reckoning that answers all the fundamental questions about the Long Earth, the Next, etc.Now all that said, if Stephen Baxter decides to go full fledged Wheel of Time and produces a dozen books that don't get us any closer to any real answers, I'll probably start to get really impatient. But for now, I say keep the stories coming.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful. Compelling and much better than the other sequels, but still with its flaws (no spoilers) By Kevin Perlow The novel takes place several years after The Long Mars but, in keeping with one of the trends of the series, casually discards a lot of the events from that novel (including nearly the entire Mars portion) as events that have happened but no longer are relevant to where the authors wanted to go with the story. This is unfortunate, as some of the other sentient life discovered on Mars would have been extremely interesting to further explored. On top of that, the tech discovered towards the end of the novel is used, but no attempt is made to create a backstory for its previous origins. The same can be said for the artifacts left behind by a sentient race discovered in a previous novel. Not following up on some of these extremely interesting areas is one of the biggest disappointments here.In a vacuum, however, this story is the best of the sequels in the series. It is resolved a bit abruptly, but it does include a bit of the group known as The Next. By focusing on several smaller societies within The Long Earth, the authors developed them in more detail. This was certainly a positive, and it creates a particularly compelling story in one of the further worlds. Unfortunately, the actions taken don't make a whole lot of sense as a long-term solution (particularly if The Long Mars is still accessible). The readers are again introduced to the possibility of other life out in the distant universe and again told not to concern themselves with it.Ultimately, though, the novel is worth reading for fans of the series. The backstory provided for one of the main characters would be worth a novel on its own and the book certainly helps right the ship in preparation for the final novel.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Not bad for what it is, but nowhere close to Sir Terry's usual standard By Michael K. Smith This is the fourth volume in what was (I think) originally meant to be a trilogy, and it's not a bad wind-up to the series. Still, it suffers from the same absence of Sir Terry's off-the-wall brand of humor as the first three books. If you hadn't seen the title page, you might be hard put to identify him as one of the authors, which makes me think the ideas mostly came from Pratchett and the actual, not-very-inspired writing from Baxter.All the previous major characters are here, plus some new ones. There's Joshua Valiente, the poster boy for "stepping"(traveling by augmented mental effort into adjacent, alternate Earths, mostly heavily forested and none with native humans in them), who, over the past forty years, has become the Official Folk Hero of the Long Earth. There's Lobsang, the self-aware computer system/cyborg in multiple ambulant units, who also claims to be the reincarnation of a Tibetan motorbike mechanic, and who is almost too intelligent to tolerate. There's Sally Linsay, "Queen of the Long Earth," an extreme loner with frequent fits of vigilantism, and probably the most talented "natural stepper" alive (she doesn't even need the potato, even though it was her father who invented the stepper box). There's Agnes, once "Sister Agnes," the nun who raised Joshua at the children's home in Madison, but whom Lobsang resurrected after her death and installed in a cyborg body similar to his own. There's Roberta, one of the first of the Next -- the post-homo sapiens grooming themselves to take over the multiple Earths, and whom Sally helped to rescue in the previous book. And now there's young Stan Berg, perhaps the most powerful of the Next yet born, but he doesn't want any part of their program. He just wants to preach what amounts to a new humanist religion.And there are the drifters, the "combers," who just throw out civilization altogether and go off "into the green." To them, it's all a kind of endless now, where location and time don't really matter. Weather turning ugly? Just step into the next Earth, or to one a few thousand steps away. Want to be a pioneer? Pick a world you like and go.But the literally earth-shaking explosion of the Yellowstone caldera a few years before has brought about the beginnings of a new ice age to Datum Earth. Now it's 2059 and the English Channel is filled with icebergs, Paris has the climate of Lapland, and everyone who can has fled to refugee camps in the Low Earths. (Not everyone is cut out for pioneering.) Human society has changed completely in little more than a single generation. And now there's a new threat to the survival of the Long Earth from a completely unexpected and thoroughly alien direction, and it involves Von Neumann replicators and a Dyson motor. And not everyone we've come to know will survive the solution to the problem.It's not a bad book, though the emergency everyone has to deal with the second half seems a bit contrived and coincidental. Occasionally stiff plotting has been a problem all along with this series. The writing, though humorless as noted, is reasonably competent and professional. But where I re-read all the Discworld stories every few years, I think I'm unlikely to do that with the Long Earth.
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