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Die Lange Erde: eine unendliche Abfolge von Welten, der unseren ähnlich und von Menschen unbewohnt. Bis eine geniale Erfindung es der Menschheit ermöglichte, sie zu betreten. Wo einst der erste Pionier Joshua eine unbekannte Welt nach der anderen erforschte, sind nun zahlreiche neue Siedlungen entstanden. Verbunden werden sie durch eine gewaltige Flotte von Luftschiffen, die Handel und Kultur befördern, sowie eine politische Struktur. Doch Unruhen deuten sich an: Millionen "Schritte" von der alten Erde entfernt ist ein neues Amerika entstanden, das nach Unabhängigkeit verlangt. Und auch die alten Wesen der Langen Erde begehren auf gegen die menschliche Dominanz. Kann der als Retter herbeigerufene Joshua den Frieden bewahren? Oder kommt es zum Krieg der Welten einem Krieg, wie ihn noch nie jemand gesehen hat

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From the combined talents of the UK´s bestselling novelist and a giant of British science fiction comes the sequel to the phenomenal No.1 bestseller The Long Earth...

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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, with core American values restated in the plentiful environment of the Long Earth - and Valhalla is growing restless under the control of the Datum government...
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 ... Joshua, now a married man, is summoned by Lobsang to deal with a gathering multiple crisis that threatens to plunge the Long Earth into a war unlike any mankind has waged before.

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Terry Pratchett (Author)
Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic , was published in 1983. His fortieth Discworld novel, Raising Steam , was published in 2013. His books have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. He died in March 2015.

www.terrypratchett.co.uk
@terryandrob

Stephen Baxter (Author)
Stephen Baxter is one of the UK´s most acclaimed writers of science fiction and a multi-award winner. His many books include the classic Xeelee sequence, the Time´s Odyssey novels (written with Arthur C. Clarke) and Time Ships , a sequel to H. G. Wells´s The Time Machine , a Doctor Who novel, The Wheel of Ice , and most recently the epic, far-future novels Proxima and Ultima . He lives in Northumberland.

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