The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
-Publisher: Harper; 1St Edition edition (June 19, 2012)
-Released: June 19, 2012
-ISBN: 978-0062067753
The idea of parallel universes is not a new one, but travelling to them in fiction always involves massive amounts of power, an inbuilt knack or a wormhole of some kind. In The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter travelling to the parallel earth next door is easy, all you need is some basic electronics and a potato. The potato sounds absurd but once you consider that it’s the perfect organic battery it fits in with the way Pratchett and Baxter’s universe works.
The other earths are all slightly different, all different realities with one thing in common: no humans. In every other Earth, humanity never happened.
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