TPS: 178x110mm
2070–71. Nearly six decades after Step Day and in the Long Earth the new Next post-human society continues to evolve.
28mm FIRM
CMYK, SUPER MATT, SPOT UV
THE AWESOME FINAL STEP . . .
Joshua Valienté, now in his late sixties, wants to make one last, solo journey into the High Meggers. Only it’s an adventure that turns into a disaster. Alone and facing death, his only hope lies with a group of trolls. As Joshua confronts his mortality, the Long Earth receives a signal from the stars. A signal picked up by radio astronomers but also in more abstract ways, by the trolls and by the Great Traversers. Its impact will be felt by all who inhabit the Long Earths. The message is simple but its implications are enormous: JOIN US. ‘Intricately described . . . gently immersive . . . the last chapter will make you cry, all on its own’ Jenny Colgan, GUARDIAN ‘One of the unexpected delights of the later Pratchett career . . . a love letter to science fiction itself, one suffused with Clarke-like optimism about the future’ SFX ‘A fine and fitting testament to the work of one of our greatest and much-missed writing legends, and a reminder that in the likes of Stephen Baxter, British science fiction remains in safe hands’ i-NEWSPAPER ‘Enthralling and thought-provoking in equal measure’ DAILY MAIL
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I S B N 978-0-552-17390-2
CAN $13.99
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780552 173902
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Cover photographs: space background and planet Earth image © NASA; landscape and figures © Shutterstock.
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