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The Long Cosmos Free FREE THE LONG COSMOS PDF Terry Pratchett,Stephen Baxter,Michael Fenton Stevens | 400 pages | 27 Jul 2016 | Transworld Publishers Ltd | 9780857521798 | English | London, United Kingdom The Long Cosmos (The Long Earth, #5) by Terry Pratchett Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a The Long Cosmos Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Stephen Baxter. Nearly six decades after Step Day and in the Long Earth, the new Next post-human society The Long Cosmos to evolve. Alone and facing death, his only hope of salvation lies with a group of trolls. But as Joshua confronts h But as Joshua confronts his mortality, the Long Earth receives a signal from the stars. A signal that is picked up by radio astronomers but also in more abstract ways — by the trolls and by The Long Cosmos Great Traversers. The super-smart The Long Cosmos realise that the Message contains instructions on how to develop an immense artificial intelligence but to build The Long Cosmos they have to seek help from throughout the industrious worlds of The Long Cosmos. Its impact will be felt by and resonate with all — mankind and other species, young and old, communities and individuals — who inhabit the Long Earths… Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Original Title. The Long Earth 5. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Long Cosmosplease sign up. Terry's daughter, who holds the key to Terry's writing vault, has announced that the final Tiffani Aching book will be Terry's final book, so I suspect the final Long Earth book will be a solo mission. Has anyone heard differently? Dvir Andre On Amazon's book listing it says: "Completed by the authors some eighteen months before Terry Pratchett's untimely death, The Long Cosmos is the grand …more On Amazon's book listing it says: "Completed by the authors some eighteen months The Long Cosmos Terry Pratchett's untimely death, The Long Cosmos is the grand climax of the Long Earth series. This question The Long Cosmos spoilers… view spoiler [What does the last chapter mean. Who is the little girl? Is she Human or Troll or other? It's completely unexplained and makes no sense! Does anyone know what it meant? Terry Kammes This answer contains spoilers… view spoiler [The baby being Rod's child was my first thought. It's ambiguous, and The Long Cosmos would love to discuss this further. See all 6 questions about The Long Cosmos…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort The Long Cosmos. He was best known for a series of wonderful fantasy novels that mixed satire and slapstick to such an intelligent degree that I'd find myself admiring how clever he was even while slapping my knee and having a good chortle. He wrote other books in other genres. Some by himself and some with other authors. Most recently he set out upon a collaboration with a science fiction author who has written some of my favourite and least favourite novels The Long Cosmos the genre. Unfortunately it ran out of ideas about four and a The Long Cosmos books ago. The basic notion was a good one: imagine if our world was just one in an infinite string of Earths, each differing from its two neighbours by some chance event turning out differently in the past. Here an asteroid struck full on, next door it merely grazed the surface, and two doors down it missed entirely. Not a single Earth, then, but a Long Earth of infinite resources and possibilities. And imagine if, all of a sudden, people discovered how to take steps between neighbouring worlds. Next was The Long War which ostensibly asked what war would look like when the battle grounds could span planets at once infinitely close and infinitely far apart. The answer, it turned out, was a lacklustre shrug. There was no war. Instead the main characters wandered between some more of the worlds on the Long Earth and pointed at all the pretty differences. Middles are infamously tricky to write since you no longer have the freshness of the beginning nor the excitement of the end. Fortunately the third book afforded us fresh excitement by having the main characters take a spaceship to Mars and then wander between some worlds on the Long Mars and point at all the pretty differences. It was totally unlike the other books because, you know, Mars. Believe it or not I kind of liked this one, or at least it provoked some feelings beyond utter tedium. Something new was The Long Cosmos, the notion that our Long Earth and some other, cosmically distant Long Planet could become tangled somehow, and at the places where they were joined one could step not just in the usual two directions to your neighbouring worlds, but in a third direction to reach the other planet. It set up a neat invasion storyline. The Long Cosmos is clearly trying to build to an epic and grand conclusion. Underpinning the plot is the attempt to build a continent-sized supercomputer that will presumably tell us the meaning of life, the Universe, and everything. But building computers takes time. All this so that, finally, the computer gets up and running. What is its purpose? It does at least somehow tell people how to repeat the fourth book and step between different planets, not just between copies of their own. And so the main characters wander between some different worlds around the galaxy and point at all the pretty differences. But only occasionally and only a little. I was just disappointed and a little sad that an author who brought me so much joy has his name on these books that brought me so little. View all 19 comments. Jun 01, Phrynne rated it it was amazing Shelves: The Long Cosmos, finished I have been reading this series for eight years but I still remember clearly how much I enjoyed the first book when the idea of "stepping" was introduced. In that book people were only travelling between many different versions of Earth and there has been some amazing progress over the five books The Long Cosmos the series. Books 2,3,and 4 varied in interest for me and they occasionally overwhelmed me with data, but book 5 is another winner as our intrepid heroes The Long Cosmos how to "step" across the The Long Cosmos. I I have been reading this series for eight years but I still remember clearly how much I enjoyed the first book when the idea of "stepping" was introduced. I loved the way the authors brought back the most important characters and gathered them together for this last momentous The Long Cosmos. Lobsang and Joshua have always been my favourite characters and it was fitting that they stayed right to the very end. It was nice to know that Terry Pratchett had input to this book right up to the chapter in the forest. I will miss you Mr. Pratchett although I have the legacy of all your wonderful books on my shelves to reread whenever I like. Credit too to Stephen Baxter who did a brilliant job in co writing and then finishing the series. Nov 18, Sarah rated it it was amazing. Looking forward to a conclusion. I actually really loved this final part of The Long Cosmos series. It's been an odd series and I can see why it has been so divisive and had poor reviews The storyline is people exploring the Long Earth and what that means for humanity. There were several different events and short story lines throughout the series and I enjoyed just listening to I did the audios the descriptions of the works unfolding, imagining the amazing creatures and scapes The Long Cosmos. I loved the characters - flawed, imperfect, usually old, rarely attractive. All just normal human beings well What people have to consider is that the way these stories are told - with snippets of different characters Iives, brief shots of different worlds - is representative of the disjointed nature of the Long Earth itself. Humanity is spread across the inumerable iterations of Earth and Mars How can The Long Cosmos tell a linear story in a non linear universe? I think, to enjoy these books you need to be happy to just let them wash over you, to revel The Long Cosmos the descriptions and to The Long Cosmos in love with the characters and I was satisfied with the way the book ended and I felt all the questions which could be answered were answered. I was happy to see Joshua and Rod reconciled and the scene with the baby was very touching, as was the scene between Joshua and Lobsang when they discuss Agnes. The Long Cosmos | Sir Terry Pratchett At the time of Pratchett's death 12 Marchthree novels had been released, with a fourth published on 23 The Long Cosmos and the fifth published on 30 June The original The Long Cosmos for the series was Pratchett's then-unpublished short story "The High Meggas", The Long Cosmos he wrote as a starting point for a potential series while his first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magicwas undergoing publication.
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