The Long Earth
(Long Earth 1)
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3.2 • 6 Ratings
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- 69,00 kr
Publisher Description
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'A triumph' Independent
'Literary alchemy' SFX
1916: the Western Front. 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 landscape of No Man's Land gone?
2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive (some said mad, others dangerous) scientist when she finds a curious gadget - a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a...potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way Mankind views his world for ever.
And that is an understatement if ever there was one...
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This is the first novel in the Long Earth series.
'The Long Earth series deserves a place on the bookshelves of hardcore SF fans and general readers alike' Independent on Sunday
Customer Reviews
Good ideas, unsatisfactory execution
There are some pretty fascinating ideas in this book about human nature and human society, but ultimately the book fails to deliver very much at all. The protagonists are sketchy and not really put in any interesting dilemmas, Deus Ex Machina rears its ugly head and there's just too much happening in (sometimes irrelevant) side stories to make the main story work. I will not read this book again.