Terry Pratchett: The Long Cosmos, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Long Cosmos
- Publisher:
- Harper Collins Publ. USA, 01/2017
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780062297389
- Item number:
- 3503756
- Volume:
- 451 Pages
- Weight:
- 254 g
- Format:
- 188 x 104 mm
- Thickness:
- 33 mm
- Release date:
- 31.1.2017
- Series:
- Long Earth - volume 5
- Note
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Blurb
2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day, a new society continues to evolve in the Long Earth. Now, a message has been received: "Join us."
The Next---the hyper-intelligent post-humans---realize that the missive contains instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial intelligence known as The Machine. But to build this computer, the size of an Earth continent, they must obtain help from the more populous and still industrious worlds of mankind.
Meanwhile, on a trek in the High Meggers, Joshua Valienté, now nearing seventy, is saved from death when a troll band discovers him. Living among the trolls as he recovers, Joshua develops a deeper understanding of this collective-intelligence species and its society. He discovers that some older trolls, with capacious memories, act as communal libraries and live on a very strange Long Earth world, in caverns under the root systems of trees as tall as mountains. He also learns something much more profound about life and its purpose in the Long Earth: We cultivate the cosmos to maximize the opportunities for life and joy in this universe, and to prepare for new universes to come.
Biography (Terry Pratchett)
Sir Terry Pratchett, the author of over three dozen novels, is one of the worlds best-selling novelists writing in the English language. His books have sold more than 65 milllion copies worldwide. In addition to his phenomenaland hugely popularDiscworld series for adults, Terry is the beloved author several childrens books. He was awarded Britains highest honor for a childrens novel, the Carnegie Medal. In 2008, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature. Terry lives in England, where he writes all the time. The characters and setting of THE TIFFANY ACHING ADVENTURES are dear to the authors heart, reflecting (obliquely) much of his own childhood in Englands Chalk countrythe part of the country where he still lives today. Mr. Pratchett and his wife, Lyn, have one grown daughter and many cats. Anyone can find out more about Terry at Harpers own website: terrypratchettbooks.com. In 2008, Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers Disease.Biography (Stephen Baxter)
Stephen Baxter, 1957 geboren, wächst in Liverpool auf. Er studiert Mathematik in Cambridge und Southampton. Seine ersten Kurzgeschichten verkauft er 1986, sein erster Roman Raft erschien 1991 Stephen Baxter ist verheiratet und lebt in Buckinghamshire.
