The Long War

Vorwort
From the combined talents of the UK's bestselling novelist and a giant of British science fiction comes the sequel to the phenomenal No.1 bestseller The Long Earth...

Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

Sequel to the No.1 bestseller "The Long Earth" from science fiction giant Terry Pratchett and bestselling novelist Stephen Baxter. Takes the story of Joshua, Lobsang, Susan and Monica Jansson on 10yrs, when mankind is facing a disturbing future. New paperback edition.

Zusammenfassung
Mankind is shaping the Long Earth but in turn the Long Earth is shaping mankind ... A new 'America', called Valhalla, is emerging more than a million steps from Datum Earth, with core American values restated in the plentiful environment of the Long Earth and Valhalla is growing restless under the control of the Datum government...