The Long Mars

Resource Information

The work The Long Mars represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Georgetown Peabody Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The Long Mars

Statement of responsibility

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter

Creator

• Pratchett, Terry

Contributor

• Baxter, Stephen

Subject

• Inventors -- Fiction
• Natural disasters -- Fiction
• Science fiction
• Space and time -- Fiction
• Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction

Genre

• Science fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous rescue work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across the Long Mars and wants her to accompany him. But Sally soon learns that Willis has an ulterior motive for his request. ... Meanwhile U.S. Navy Commander Maggie Kauffman has embarked on an incredible journey of her own, leading an expedition to the outer limits of the far Long Earth. For Joshua, the crisis he faces is much closer to home. He becomes embroiled in the plight of the Next: the super-bright post-humans who are beginning to emerge from their 'long childhood' in the community called Happy Landings, located deep in the Long Earth. Ignorance and fear have caused 'normal' human society to turn against the Next. A dramatic showdown seems inevitable"--

Member of

• Long Earth, bk. 3

Assigning source

from publisher's web site

Cataloging source

M$K

Dewey number

813

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR6066.R34

LC item number

L664 2014b

Literary form

novels

Series statement

Long Earth