07-14-2015, 08:12 AM
There are four books in the series so far. I've read The Long Earth and the Long Earth War. I have The Long Mars but it is going back to the library unread as I leave the series.
Basically, people find out they live in a multiplicity of earths all within walking distance if you use a special machine. Just by clicking you can go from one earth to the next with just a step. In the first novel, the people of the earth start to colonize the other earths. It's a free land rush. But nothing much happens until the very end. It looks like an exercise in describing how various earths could have evolved. I kept waiting for things to happen.
In the second book, the earths prepare to go to war against each other as the governments of the first earth try to seek to control the other earths. In the end, no war. More earth descriptions.
So, the third book goes back. And I'm not even a bit curious about the fourth book.
Basically, people find out they live in a multiplicity of earths all within walking distance if you use a special machine. Just by clicking you can go from one earth to the next with just a step. In the first novel, the people of the earth start to colonize the other earths. It's a free land rush. But nothing much happens until the very end. It looks like an exercise in describing how various earths could have evolved. I kept waiting for things to happen.
In the second book, the earths prepare to go to war against each other as the governments of the first earth try to seek to control the other earths. In the end, no war. More earth descriptions.
So, the third book goes back. And I'm not even a bit curious about the fourth book.
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit
