Book:The Long Earth - Revision history

Guybrush: Changing Trolls link for consistency

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Changing Trolls link for consistency

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	*[[Sister Serendipity]]		*[[Sister Serendipity]]
	*[[Sarah]]		*[[Sarah]]
	*[[Trolls (Long Earth)\|Trolls]]		*[[Trolls (The Long Earth)\|Trolls]]
	* [[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.		* [[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.
	* [[Maria Valienté]] - The mother of Joshua, and at only fifteen.		* [[Maria Valienté]] - The mother of Joshua, and at only fifteen.

Guybrush: /* Characters */

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Characters

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	*[[Sister Serendipity]]		*[[Sister Serendipity]]
	*[[Sarah]]		*[[Sarah]]
	*[[Trolls(Long Earth)\|Trolls]]		*[[Trolls (Long Earth)\|Trolls]]
	* [[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.		* [[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.
	* [[Maria Valienté]] - The mother of Joshua, and at only fifteen.		* [[Maria Valienté]] - The mother of Joshua, and at only fifteen.

Guybrush at 03:31, 4 May 2020

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	[[Deleted Scenes\|''The Long Earth: First Person Singular'']] an excerpt from the book released on the stories page of Stephen Baxter's website.		[[Deleted Scenes\|''The Long Earth: First Person Singular'']] an excerpt from the book released on the stories page of Stephen Baxter's website.

			==Annotations==
			Later editions of the book corrected the blurb to begin with the year 1917, which is the correct year for the battle during which Private Percy is said to have vanished.

	==Gallery==		==Gallery==

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Extra

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	[[Deleted Scenes\|''The Long Earth: First Person Singular'']] an excerpt from the book released on the stories page of Stephen Baxter's website.		[[Deleted Scenes\|''The Long Earth: First Person Singular'']] an excerpt from the book released on the stories page of Stephen Baxter's website.

	~~Later editions of the book corrected the blurb to begin with the year 1917, which is the correct year for the battle during which Private Percy is said to have vanished.~~

	==Gallery==		==Gallery==

Guybrush: /* Extra */ Added note about blurb.

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Extra: Added note about blurb.

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	[[Deleted Scenes\|''The Long Earth: First Person Singular'']] an excerpt from the book released on the stories page of Stephen Baxter's website.		[[Deleted Scenes\|''The Long Earth: First Person Singular'']] an excerpt from the book released on the stories page of Stephen Baxter's website.

			Later editions of the book corrected the blurb to begin with the year 1917, which is the correct year for the battle during which Private Percy is said to have vanished.

	==Gallery==		==Gallery==

Jagra at 15:26, 11 April 2020

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	\|title=The Long Earth		\|title=The Long Earth
	\|cover=[[File:LongEarth.jpg\|220px\|thumb]]		\|cover=[[File:LongEarth.jpg\|220px\|thumb]]
			\|coauthors=[[Stephen Baxter]]
			\|illustrator=
	\|date=Jun 2012		\|date=Jun 2012
	\|publisher=Doubleday		\|publisher=Doubleday
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	\|pages=		\|pages=
	\|rrp=£18.99		\|rrp=£18.99
	\|series=		\|series=The Long Earth Series
	\|characters=Percy Blakeney, Monica Jansson, Willis Linsay		\|characters=Percy Blakeney, Monica Jansson, Willis Linsay
	\|annotations=Yes		\|annotations=Yes
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	*[[Freddie]]		*[[Freddie]]
	* Rod Green		* Rod Green
	** 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.		* 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.
	* [[Sally Linsay]] - Daughter of Willis Linsay and a natural stepper.		* [[Sally Linsay]] - Daughter of Willis Linsay and a natural stepper.
	* [[Willis Linsay]] - The inventor of the [[Stepper]].		* [[Willis Linsay]] - The inventor of the [[Stepper]].
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	==Extra==		==Extra==
	The retailer Waterstones exclusive 'Metallic' edition contained the extra short story [[Short Story:The High Meggas\|''The High Meggas'']].		The retailer Waterstones exclusive 'Metallic' edition contained the extra short story [[Short Story:The High Meggas\|''The High Meggas'']].

			[[Deleted Scenes\|''The Long Earth: First Person Singular'']] an excerpt from the book released on the stories page of Stephen Baxter's website.

	==Gallery==		==Gallery==

Jagra: Gallery added

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Gallery added

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	{{Book Data		{{Book Data
	\|cover=[[File:LongEarth.jpg\|220px]]		\|title=The Long Earth
			\|cover=[[File:LongEarth.jpg\|220px\|thumb]]
	\|date=Jun 2012		\|date=Jun 2012
	\|publisher=Doubleday		\|publisher=Doubleday
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	\|notes=with Stephen Baxter		\|notes=with Stephen Baxter
	}}		}}

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

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	==Extra==		==Extra==
	The retailer Waterstones exclusive 'Metallic' edition contained the extra short story [[Short Story:The High Meggas\|''The High Meggas'']].		The retailer Waterstones exclusive 'Metallic' edition contained the extra short story [[Short Story:The High Meggas\|''The High Meggas'']].

			==Gallery==
			{\|
			\|-
			\| valign="top" \| [[File:LongEarth.jpg\|thumb\|120px\|First Edition Cover by Rich Shailer]]
			\| valign="top" \| [[File:LE Proof.jpg\|thumb\|180px\|Book Proof]]
			\| valign="top" \| [[File:LE Slip.jpg\|thumb\|120px\|Slipcase Collectors Edition]]
			\| valign="top" \| [[File:LE Metal.jpg\|thumb\|130px\|Metallic Edition]]
			\| valign="top" \| [[File:LE CD.jpg\|thumb\|140px\|Audio CD]]
			\|}

	{{series\|series=The Long Earth\|after=The Long War}}		{{series\|series=The Long Earth\|after=The Long War}}

Old Dickens: disambig

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disambig

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	}}		}}

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

	==Blurb==		==Blurb==

Old Dickens: always nearly always?

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always nearly always?

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	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...		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~~ nearly 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.		...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 ''nearly'' 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...		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...

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	*Selena Jones		*Selena Jones
	* [[Jim Russo]]		* [[Jim Russo]]
	*~~[[Cats\|~~Shi-Mi]]		*Shi-Mi - robot cat
	*[[Sister Serendipity]]		*[[Sister Serendipity]]
	*[[Sarah]]		*[[Sarah]]