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Book:The Long Earth

2013-05-08T09:05:23Z

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{{Book Data
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|date=Jun 2012
|publisher=Doubleday
|isbn=0857520091
|pages=
|rrp=£18.99
|series=
|characters=Percy Blakeney, Monica Jansson, Willis Linsay
|annotations=Yes
|notes=with Stephen Baxter
}}

Released 21 Jun, 2012 in the UK. A Science Fiction novel in collaboration with {{wp|Stephen Baxter|Stephen Baxter}}. It is based on a pre-{{COM}} concept then called ''The High Meggas''.

==Blurb==
The possibilities are endless (just be careful what you wish for...)

1916: the Western Front, France. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where has the mud, blood and blasted landcape of No man's Land gone?

2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson has returned to the burned-out home of one Willis Linsay, a reclusive and some said mad, others dangerous, scientist. It was arson but, as is often the way, the firemen seem to have caused more damage than the fire itself. Stepping through the wreck of a house, there's no sign of any human remains but on the mantelpiece Monica finds a curious gadget - a box, containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a...potato. It is the prototype of an invention that Linsay called a 'stepper'. An invention he put up on the web for all the world to see, and use, an invention that would to change the way mankind viewed his world Earth for ever. And that's an understatement if ever there was one...

...because the stepper allowed the person using it to step sideways into another America, another Earth, and if you kept on stepping, you kept on entering even more Earths...this is the Long Earth. It's our our Earth but one of chain of parallel worlds, lying side by side each differing from its neighbour by really very little (or actually quite a lot). It's an infinite chain, offering 'steppers' an infinite landscape of infinite possibilities. And the further away you travel, the stranger - and sometimes more dangerous - the Earths get. The sun and moon always shine, the basic laws of physics are the same. However, the chance events which have shaped our particular Earth, such as the dinosaur-killer asteroid impact, might not have happened and things may well have turned out rather differently.

But, until Willis Linsay invented his stepper, only our Earth hosted mankind...or so we thought. Because it turns out there are some people who are natural 'steppers', who don't need his invention and now the great migration has begun...

==Characters==
* Private [[Percy Blakeney]] - A World War I soldier.
*Madison Police Department
** Officer [[Monica Jansson]] - A Madison police officer with more imagination than most, who is first on the scene when children start disappearing all over the city.
** Lieutenant Clichy
** Junior Patrol Officer Mike Christopher
** Station Master Dodd
*The House
** [[Joshua Valienté]] - Joshua was an orphan born in another world, and he would rather lose himself in a forest than in the crowds of our Earth, and can’t wait to get away from it again.
**[[Sister Agnes]]
**[[Sister Serendipity]]
**[[Sarah]]
**[[Freddie]]
**[[Billy Chambers]]
*The Black Corporation and [[transEarth]]
**[[Douglas Black]]
**[[Lobsang]] - A Tibetan mechanic reincarnated as a highly intelligent machine, with a high opinion of himself to match.
**Shi-Mi
**Selena Jones
* [[Brian Cowley]] a demagogue and founder of [[Humanity First]]
* [[Willis Linsay]] - The inventor of the [[Stepper]].
* [[Sally Linsay]] - Daughter of Willis Linsay and a natural stepper.
* [[Maria Valienté]] - The mother of Joshua, and at only fifteen.
* Rod Green
* [[Jim Russo]]
* Hermione Dawes
* [[First Person Singularity]]

==Things and Concepts==
*[[Humanity First]]
*[[The Black Corporation]]
*''[[Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag]]'' - song
*[[The Silence]]
*[[Step day]]
*The [[Stepper]]
*The [[Long Earth]]s
*[[transEarth]]- an arm of the Black Corporation
*''Mark Twain''
*[[The Cosmic Confidence Trick Victims]]

==Locations==
*[[Datum Earth]]
*A forest
*The Home
*Madison, Wisconsin
*[[Happy Landings]]
*The Western Front, France
*Reboot

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Book:The Long Earth

2013-05-08T09:03:54Z

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{{Book Data
|cover=
[[File:TheLongWarSmall.jpg|framed]]
|date=Jun 2012
|publisher=Doubleday
|isbn=0857520091
|pages=
|rrp=£18.99
|series=
|characters=Percy Blakeney, Monica Jansson, Willis Linsay
|annotations=Yes
|notes=with Stephen Baxter
}}

Announced for 20th June 2013 in UK and 23rd July 2013 in US.

==Blurb==
The follow-up to ''[[The Long Earth]]''...

A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where [[Joshua]Joshua Valient'e] and [[Lobsang]] once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. 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...

Meanwhile the Long Earth is suffused by the song of the trolls, graceful hive-mind humanoids. But the trolls are beginning to react to humanity’s thoughtless exploitation... [[Joshua]Joshua Valient'e]], now a married man, is summoned by [[Lobsang]] to deal with a gathering multiple crisis that threatens to plunge the Long Earth into a war unlike any mankind has waged before.

==Characters==

==Things and Concepts==
*[[Stepping]]

==Locations==
*[[Datum Earth]]
*[[Valhalla]]

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Book:The Long Earth

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Book:The Long War

2013-05-08T08:58:08Z

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{{Book Data
|cover=
[[File:TheLongWarSmall.jpg|framed]]
|date=Jun 2012
|publisher=Doubleday
|isbn=0857520091
|pages=
|rrp=£18.99
|series=
|characters=Percy Blakeney, Monica Jansson, Willis Linsay
|annotations=Yes
|notes=with Stephen Baxter
}}

Announced for 20th June 2013 in UK and 23rd July 2013 in US.

==Blurb==
The follow-up to ''[[The Long Earth]]''...

A generation after the events of [[The Long Earth]], mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where [[Joshua|Joshua Valienté]] and [[Lobsang]] once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth -- but in turn [[the Long Earth|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...

Meanwhile the Long Earth is suffused by the song of the trolls, graceful hive-mind humanoids. But the trolls are beginning to react to humanity’s thoughtless exploitation... [[Joshua|Joshua Valienté]], now a married man, is summoned by [[Lobsang]] to deal with a gathering multiple crisis that threatens to plunge the Long Earth into a war unlike any mankind has waged before.

==Characters==

==Things and Concepts==
*[[Stepping]]

==Locations==
*[[Datum Earth]]
*[[Valhalla]]

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Book:The Long Earth

2013-05-08T08:47:35Z

Jochen:

File:TheLongWarSmall.jpg

2013-05-08T08:46:27Z

Jochen: The Long War, Cover Picture

The Long War, Cover Picture

File:TheLongWar.jpg

2013-05-08T08:43:32Z

Jochen: The Long War, Cover Picture

The Long War, Cover Picture

User:Jochen

2013-05-08T08:30:56Z

Jochen: Created page with "Avid Terry Pratchett reader since the early nineties, beginning with Sourcery. Like so many, I started reading in my native language (german), but eventually switched over to ..."

Avid Terry Pratchett reader since the early nineties, beginning with Sourcery. Like so many, I started reading in my native language (german), but eventually switched over to reading the english originals. I'm visiting the LSpace Wiki frequently for recherche, and started updating whenever I feel I have additional information.

See also my [http://s.apache.org/id/jochen Google+ page]
And, don't forget the [https://plus.google.com/communities/118235079111058606830 Terry Pratchett Community on Google+].

Joshua Valienté

2013-05-08T08:24:29Z

Jochen:

'''Joshua Valienté''' is one of the main characters in ''[[The Long Earth]]''. His mother, [[Maria Valienté]], gave birth to him in strange circumstances- even more strange than the business with [[Jeremy Clockson]]. Like Jeremy, therefore, he is quite a recluse, enjoying the presence of what he terms the 'Silence'. Indeed, compared to Joshua, [[Wikipedia:Daniel Boone|Daniel Boone]] was pathologically gregarious. He follows instructions zealously- the similarities are stacking up- and he looks down on others who do not prepare. He was brought up by an unusual convent of nuns, in that they prefer listening to Bob Dylan than the hymns of the faithful. He is quite a celebrity, in that people stop him in the street and go: "Joshua Valienté? You're ''him'', aren't you? The weird one? With the [[Stepper]]? And the nuns?"

He demonstrates his usefulness during the events of ''[[The Long Earth]]'', in that he and [[Lobsang]] embark on a top-secret mission to the depths of Long Earth for that most natural of reasons: to see what is out there, and whether it turns a profit.

According to the [http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/terry-pratchett-stephen-baxter-the-long-war-the-long-earth-2-announced#.UPVHTAE3yrc.twitter snopsis] of ''[[The Long War]]'', Joshua is married in the latter book, but it is yet unknown to whom.
[[Category:The Long Earth|The Long War|Valienté Joshua]]

Joshua Valienté

2013-05-08T08:02:43Z

Jochen:

'''Joshua Valienté''' is one of the main characters in ''[[The Long Earth]]''. His mother, [[Maria Valienté]], gave birth to him in strange circumstances- even more strange than the business with [[Jeremy Clockson]]. Like Jeremy, therefore, he is quite a recluse, enjoying the presence of what he terms the 'Silence'. Indeed, compared to Joshua, [[Wikipedia:Daniel Boone|Daniel Boone]] was pathologically gregarious. He follows instructions zealously- the similarities are stacking up- and he looks down on others who do not prepare. He was brought up by an unusual convent of nuns, in that they prefer listening to Bob Dylan than the hymns of the faithful. He is quite a celebrity, in that people stop him in the street and go: "Joshua Valienté? You're ''him'', aren't you? The weird one? With the [[Stepper]]? And the nuns?"

He demonstrates his usefulness during the events of ''[[The Long Earth]]'', in that he and [[Lobsang]] embark on a top-secret mission to the depths of Long Earth for that most natural of reasons: to see what is out there, and whether it turns a profit.

According to the [http://gavreads.co.uk/2013/01/15/coming-soon-blurb-for-the-long-war-the-long-earth-2-by-terry-pratchett-stephen-baxter/ cover text] of ''[[The Long War]]'', Joshua is married in the latter book, but it is yet unknown to whom.
[[Category:The Long Earth|The Long War|Valienté Joshua]]

Wincanton

2013-03-31T19:48:40Z

Jochen:

'''Wincanton''' is a small town in south Somerset, southwest England. The town lies on the A303 road, the main route between London and South West England, and has some light industry. The town has a population of 4,643.

Wincanton is unique in the fact that it was twinned in 2002 with a town from Discworld: [[Ankh-Morpork]]. This has been formally approved by [[Havelock Vetinari]] himself in the short story [[A Few Words From Lord Havelock Vetinari]], which has been republished in {{BS}}.

<br>Besides, Wincanton is the location of [[Bernard Pearson]]'s ''Discworld Emporium'' and site of no few events for British Discworld fans.

[[Category:People]]
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Wincanton

2013-02-05T21:00:00Z

Jochen:

'''Wincanton''' is a small town in south Somerset, southwest England. The town lies on the A303 road, the main route between London and South West England, and has some light industry. The town has a population of 4,643.

Wincanton is unique in the fact that it was twinned in 2002 with a town from disc world: [[Ankh-Morpork]]

This has been formally approved by [[Havelock Vetinari]] himself in the short story [[A few words from Lord Havelock Vetinary]], which has been republished in [[A blink of the screen]].

Wincanton

2013-02-05T20:57:44Z

Jochen: Created page with "'''Wincanton''' is a small town in south Somerset, southwest England. The town lies on the A303 road, the main route between London and South West England,..."

'''Wincanton''' is a small town in south [[Somerset]], southwest [[England]]. The town lies on the [[A303 road]], the main route between [[London]] and [[South West England]], and has some [[light industry]]. The town has a [[population]] of 4,643.<ref name="popn"/>

Wincanton is unique in the fact that it was twinned in 2002 with a town from disc world: [[Ankh-Morpork]]

This has been formally approved by [[Havelock Vetinari]] himself in the short story [[A few words from Lord Havelock Vetinary]], which has been republished in [[A blink of the screen]].