Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter: The Long Earth (Hardcover, 2012, HarperCollins Harper)
Hardcover, 336 pages
English language
Published June 21, 2012 by HarperCollins Harper.
1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where have the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone?
2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive - some said mad, others dangerous - scientist when she finds a curious gadget - a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a... potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way Mankind views his world forever.
And that is an understatement if ever there was one...
O que me encantou nessa história é o fato de ser uma ficção científica com uma premissa que me pareceu completamente inovadora: e se de repente não existisse mais escassez porque existem infinitas Terras?
Gostei especialmente por estar voltado para a exploração. A premissa e o foco foram pra mim muito novos, um frescor de outras histórias, não as mesmas que já foram contadas.
There's very little Pratchett in this book, unfortunately. It's based on his 30-year old short story, but it feels like Terry had practically no input in growing it into a book. It's really underdeveloped.
If you're looking for an interesting read on parallel worlds, go check out [b:The Family Trade|17861|The Family Trade (The Merchant Princes, #1)|Charles Stross|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1408262924l/17861.SY75.jpg|930587] by [a:Charles Stross|8794|Charles Stross|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1355510574p2/8794.jpg] (and frankly, Long Earth reads like a fanfic rewrite of parts of this one).
