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Pratchett, Terry
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Baxter, Stephen
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The Long Earth
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Blackstone Publishing 2012
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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 have the mud, blood, and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone? For that matter, where has Percy gone?

2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Police officer Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive—some said mad, others alleged dangerous—scientist who seems to have vanished. Sifting through the wreckage, Jansson find a curious gadget: a box containing some rudimentary wiring, a three-way switch, and a...potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way humankind views the world forever.

The first novel in an exciting new collaboration between Discworld creator Terry Pratchett and acclaimed science fiction writer Stephen Baxter, The Long Earth transports listeners to the ends of the earth—and far beyond. All it takes is a single step...

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Street Date:
06/19/2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
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Terry Pratchett. (2012). The Long Earth. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

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Terry Pratchett. 2012. The Long Earth. Blackstone Publishing.

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Terry Pratchett, The Long Earth. Blackstone Publishing, 2012.

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Terry Pratchett. The Long Earth. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2012.

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2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Police officer Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive—some said mad, others alleged dangerous—scientist who seems to have vanished. Sifting through the wreckage, Jansson find a curious gadget: a box containing some rudimentary wiring, a three-way switch, and a...potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way humankind views the world forever.

The first novel in an exciting new collaboration between Discworld creator Terry Pratchett and acclaimed science fiction writer Stephen Baxter, The Long Earth transports listeners to the ends of the earth—and far beyond. All it takes is a single step...

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2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Police officer Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive—some said mad, others alleged dangerous—scientist who seems to have vanished. Sifting through the wreckage, Jansson find a curious gadget: a box containing some rudimentary wiring, a three-way switch, and a...potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way humankind views the world forever.

The first novel in an exciting new collaboration between Discworld creator Terry Pratchett and acclaimed science fiction writer Stephen Baxter, The Long Earth transports listeners to the ends of the earth—and far beyond. All it takes is a single step...

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