Series
The Long Earth
Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter · 5 novels · 1 novelette · 1 short story · 2012–2016
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's Long Earth series (five novels, 2012-2016) begins when a cheap, simple device called a Stepper lets people step sideways into a vast, possibly infinite chain of parallel Earths, none of which developed human civilization. The books follow a natural stepper and an AI that believes itself the reincarnation of a Tibetan repairman as they travel millions of steps out along the chain, encountering other hominid species and the dangers, ecological and social, of an endless open frontier.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
The Long Earth at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s7
Shape
5 novels · 1 novelette · 1 short story
2 authors
reads like:science fictionspace explorationparallel universenear futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 7 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Long Wardarkest · most intense
- The Long Earthbrightest
- The Long Utopiacalmest