This Long Earth (Earth West) is immediately adjacent to the [[Gap]] and becomes strategically important in Book Three, [[Book:The Long Mars|The Long Mars]] as the launch point of the human race towards the Long Venus and the Long Mars. The research base here also appears as a plot point in Book Two [[Book:The Long War|The Long War]] concerning the status and treatment of [[Marjorie|trolls]].

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Long Earth

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East 38

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An informal gentleman's agreement exists between the United States and China, the world's two major superpowers, concerning the [[Long Earth]]. The Americans and their allies are free to step out in one direction - referred to as Earth West - whilst the Chinese are free to explore and colonise in the opposite direction of the ring of infinite alternate Earths, known as Earth East.

Whilst in the context of the novels the Chinese have moved on from the form of planned state socialism and collectivisation known as communism, many of the old grandiose dreams still persist from communist days. With the imperative to house, feed and offer decent lives to a population now estimated at two billion, the Chinese can't help but ''tinker'' with the new worlds. Just as the old Soviet Union and Communist China expended massive resources and manpower to improve on the landscape Nature had given them, the Chinese could not resist some pretty major improvements on their new property.

The Soviet Union made major attempts to divert water into new canals connecting major rivers - for travelling east-west in a country where the rivers all run north-south - and to build hydro electric dams, and even to divert the flow of major rivers to where it was perceived to be needed more. The Chinese followed suit in their own country. The current governments of Russia and newly independent states are still grappling with the unintended ecological consequences, such as the creation of new deserts where once there was farmland, and the "oh crap" realisation that the Aral Sea is now a third of the size it used to be, as the rivers that used to drain there now... don't.

Similarly, the Chinese tried to improve on Nature in a few Earth East worlds. The ''intention'' was good. To divert rivers starting in the Himalayas to drain north rather than south, to make the Gobi Desert green. Or better still, to get rid of some of those inconvenient mountains altogether. Quite a lot of nuclear weapons were used to remodel the landscape.

The result is a group of worlds that are now so badly irradiated and inimical to human life that they are unfit for human habitation and will remain so for thousands of years. Some people just cannot be ''trusted'' with brand spanking new planets fresh out of the packaging...

It is possible Terry Pratchett is here alluding to [[Leonard of Quirm]] and his excited plans to use explosive metal bombs in major civil engineering works, for eg to remove inconveniently located mountains. This is how it would all work out in practice...

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Earth East 1-6

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East 38

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An informal gentleman's agreement exists between the United States and China, the world's two major superpowers, concerning the [[Long Earth]]. The Americans and their allies are free to step out in one direction - referred to as Earth West - whilst the Chinese are free to explore and colonise in the opposite direction of the ring of infinite alternate Earths, known as Earth East.

Whilst in the context of the novels the Chinese have moved on from the form of planned state socialism and collectivisation known as communism, many of the old grandiose dreams still persist from communist days. With the imperative to house, feed and offer decent lives to a population now estimated at two billion, the Chinese can't help but ''tinker'' with the new worlds. Just as the old Soviet Union and Communist China expended massive resources and manpower to improve on the landscape Nature had given them, the Chinese could not resist some pretty major improvements on their new property.

The Soviet Union made major attempts to divert water into new canals connecting major rivers - for travelling east-west in a country where the rivers all run north-south - and to build hydro electric dams, and even to divert the flow of major rivers to where it was perceived to be needed more. The Chinese followed suit in their own country. The current governments of Russia and newly independent states are still grappling with the unintended ecological consequences, such as the creation of new deserts where once there was farmland, and the "oh crap" realisation that the Aral Sea is now a third of the size it used to be, as the rivers that used to drain there now... don't.

Similarly, the Chinese tried to improve on Nature in their first few Earth East worlds. The ''intention'' was good. To divert rivers starting in the Himalayas to drain north rather than south, to make the Gobi Desert green. Or better still, to get rid of some of those inconvenient mountains altogether. Quite a lot of nuclear weapons were used to remodel the landscape.

The result is a group of worlds that are now so badly irradiated and inimical to human life that they are unfit for human habitation and will remain so for thousands of years. some people just cannot be ''trusted'' with brand spanking new planets fresh out of the packaging...

It is possible Terry Pratchett is here alluding to [[Leonard of Quirm]] and his excited plans to use explosive metal bombs in major civil engineering works, for eg to remove inconveniently located mountains. This is how it would all work out in practice...

[[Category: Long Earth locations]]

Long Earth

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West 1,617,524

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In {{TLE}} Earth West 1,617,524 is the homeworld of the [[Beagles]].

Not even a particularly exciting number, it would seem: http://numbermatics.com/n/1617524
Now, if Terry had picked 1,617,523 instead (presumably the neighbours of the [[Beagles]], be they just next door or across the street), then their address would have been 'prime' real-estate.

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1,617,524

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191,248

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West 191,248

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191,248 (Earth West) is a Long Earth which was crippled by a major asteroid strike. It is not a fully fledged [[Joker World]], however, as while it is suffering from a post-impact perpetual winter, it still sustains life and is just about habitable.

[[Category: Long Earth locations]].

1,400,013

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West 1,400,013

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Long Earth 1,400,013 (Earth West) is a settled world in the [[Corn Belt]] which is the location of the colony settlement of [[Valhalla]]. It is the scene of a confrontation not unlike the one that kick-started the Americal Civil War, of colonists rebelling against the civil order and refusing to pay unjust taxes. You'd have thought the Americans would have learnt from their own history, but [[Ed Cutler]] seemingly hasn't.

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1,349,877

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West 1,349,877

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Long Earth 1, 349,877 (Earth West) is a different sort of [[Joker World]]. It combines the usual run of recognisable life forms which are clearly rrelated to those of [[Datum Earth]]. But it also has a co-existing parellel ecology which is completely alien, both trees of life flourishing together on the same world. There is speculation concerning a "Huge God" which fell to earth an unguessable time ago, whose corpse carried bacteria and other organisms enabling a new and strange exobiology to take root here. (Thoughts of the [[Fifth Elephant]] here?)

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1,176,865

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West 1,176,865

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Long Earth 1,176,855 (Earth West) is a [[Long Earth]] where the Grand Canyon still exists, but is wider, deeper, and has a far more energetic river flowing through it. Tourists flock here to view the grandeur.

It is possible this is a subtle dig at Young Earth Creationists on this planet who maintain the Grand Canyon is proof of God having created the world six thousand years ago and that somehow the Canyon is irrefutable proof that Noah's Flood happened - this was created by the Flood waters draining away, apparently.

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831,264

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West 831,264

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in ''[[Book:The Long War|The Long War]]'', 831,264 (Earth West) is an example of a [[Joker World]]. It is a barren, rust-red Mars-like landscape which is bereft of life apart from primitive autotrophic purple slime. It was apparently scythed clean of all life by gamma rays, either from a very big solar flare or else a nearby supernova. Incessant windstorms stain the sky orangey-red and the only clouds to be seen are apparently carbon dioxide-based.

[[Category: Long Earth locations]].

2,217,643

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Gap Minus One

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