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The Long Mars

(Long Earth 3)

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The Long Mars

By: Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens
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Summary

2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across the Long Mars and wants her to accompany him. But Sally soon learns that Willis has ulterior motives ...

Meanwhile U. S. Navy Commander Maggie Kauffman has embarked on an incredible journey of her own, leading an expedition to the outer limits of the far Long Earth.

For Joshua, the crisis he faces is much closer to home. He becomes embroiled in the plight of the Next: the super-bright post-humans who are beginning to emerge from their 'long childhood' in the community called Happy Landings, located deep in the Long Earth. Ignorance and fear are causing 'normal' human society to turn against the Next - and a dramatic showdown seems inevitable . . .

 Dystopian Fantasy Fiction Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Space Opera Classics Mars
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Critic Reviews

Here they come again, Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, skipping along their quantum string of planets like giddy schoolboys - and what a joy it is to have them back . . . it's a thrilling and ceaselessly entertaining ride.
Imaginative, sense-of-wonder SF at its best . . . thrilling stuff from the masters.
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This book develops The Next and adds in Mars and Sally’s dad, Mr Lindsay, as other aspects to the saga.
This means the Long Mars does not feel quite as much “more of the same” as was the case for The Long War but it would have been good to develop the perspective by taking the point of view of one of The Next (eg Paul Spencer-Waggoner) to mix things up a bit more.
The series JUST keeps me interested enough to continue with the next book.

Better than the Long War

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love this series. cant wait to listen the remaining books. good reading from voice actor.

love

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3 books in and I just don't care anymore. Really struggled to finish this one

Lost interest

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