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==Extra==
==Extra==
The retailer Waterstones exclusive 'Metallic' edition contained the extra epilogue 'An Epilogue: At The Home.'
The retailer Waterstones exclusive 'Metallic' edition contained the extra epilogue 'An Epilogue: At The Home.'
[[Deleted Scenes|''A Presidential Speech: Based on 'The Long Mars' by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter'']] a short story based on the novel released on the stories page of Stephen Baxter's website.


==Gallery==
==Gallery==

Latest revision as of 15:32, 11 April 2020

The Long Mars
Co-author(s) Stephen Baxter
Illustrator(s)
Publisher Doubleday
Publication date June 2014
ISBN 0857520091
Pages
RRP £18.99
Main characters Sally Linsay, Willis Linsay
Series The Long Earth Series
Annotations View
Notes with Stephen Baxter
All data relates to the first UK edition.

The Long Earth is in chaos. The cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption is shutting down civilization. Whole populations flee to the safety of myriad stepwise Earths...

Characters:

Races and concepts

Annotations

  • Doubleday p106: A sentient talking dog. With a jaundiced view of the human race. Called Brian. Is he also a Family Guy?

Chapter fifteen features an intelligent civilisation of crabs, or at least crustacean entities, who have developed agriculture, herding, cities, wars, religion and other forms of live sacrifice, and a strict social heirarchy. See Authors' Note.

Authors' Note, page 359

"Some of the ideas behind the Great Leap Sideways episode in Chapter Fifteen originally featured in The Science of Discworld..."

Extra

The retailer Waterstones exclusive 'Metallic' edition contained the extra epilogue 'An Epilogue: At The Home.'

A Presidential Speech: Based on 'The Long Mars' by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter a short story based on the novel released on the stories page of Stephen Baxter's website.

Gallery

First Edition Cover by Rich Shailer
Book Proof
Slipcase Collectors Edition
Metallic Edition
Audio CD


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