Book:The Long Utopia

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Book:The Long Utopia
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Publisher Doubleday
Publication date 18 June 2015
ISBN 0062393219
Pages 354 (hardback)
RRP £18.98
Main characters Joshua Valienté, Sister Agnes, Lobsang
Series The Long Earth
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Notes with Stephen Baxter
All data relates to the first UK edition.

Publisher's Blurb

2045-2059. After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth, and society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to evolve. Now an elderly and cantankerous AI, Lobsang lives in disguise with Agnes in an exotic, far-distant world. He’s convinced they’re leading a normal life in New Springfield – they even adopt a child – but it seems they have been guided there for a reason. As rumours of strange sightings and hauntings proliferate, it becomes clear that something is very awry with this particular world. Millions of steps away, Joshua is on a personal journey of discovery: learning about the father he never knew and a secret family history. But then he receives a summons from New Springfield. Lobsang now understands the enormity of what’s taking place beneath the surface of his earth – a threat to all the worlds of the Long Earth. To counter this threat will require the combined efforts of humankind, machine and the super-intelligent Next. And some must make the ultimate sacrifice . . .

Extra

The retailer Waterstones exclusive Hardback edition contained and extra short story/extra chapter 'Stan Berg in The Wilderness.'

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