The Long War: (Long Earth 2) by Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter . Unknown Year . English

THE BESTSELLING SEQUEL TO THE PHENOMENAL THE LONG EARTH 'An absorbing collaborative effort from the two giants of SF' Guardian A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua 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, and it is growing restless . . . 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 . . . And a gathering multiple crisis that threatens to plunge the Long Earth into a war unlike any mankind has waged before. ____________________ The Long War is the second in the Long Earth series.

Categories: Literary Fiction

About the Author

Stephen Baxter is the pre-eminent SF writer of his generation. Published around the world he has also won major awards in the UK, US, Germany, and Japan. Born in 1957 he has degrees from Cambridge and Southampton. He lives in Northumberland with his wife. Here are the Destiny's Children novels in series order: Coalescent Exultant Transcendent Resplendent Time's Tapestry novels in series order: Emperor Conqueror Navigator Weaver Flood novels: Flood Ark Time Odyssey series (with Arthur C Clarke): Time's Eye Sunstorm Firstborn Manifold series: Time Space Origin Phase Space Mammoth series: Mammoth (aka Silverhair) Long Tusk Ice Bones Behemoth NASA trilogy: Voyage Titan Moonseed Xeelee sequence: Raft Timelike Infinity Flux Ring Vacuum Diagrams (linked short stories) The Xeelee Omnibus (Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux, Ring) The Web series for Young Adults: Gulliverzone Webcrash Coming in 2010: Stone Spring - book one of the Northland series

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