The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter - 2012

Random House. Very Good. 161 x 240 x 42mm. Hardback. 2012. 344 pages. <br>The UK's bestselling fantasy writer and a giant of British SF combine forces to write an astonishing, mind-bending new series... The Long Earth. 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Junior cop Sally Jansson is called out to the house of Willis Lynsey, a reclusive scientist, for an animal-cruelty complaint: the man was seen forcing a horse in through the door of his home. Inside the re is no horse. But Sally finds a kind of home-made utility belt. She straps this on -- and 'steps' sideways into an America cover ed with virgin forest. Willis came here with equipment and animal s, meaning to explore and colonise. And when Sally gets back, she finds Willis has put the secret of the belt on the internet. The great migration has begun... The Long Earth our Earth is but o ne of a chain of parallel worlds, lying side by side in a higher space of possibilities, each differing from its neighbours by a l ittle (or a lot): an infinite landscape of infinite possibilities . And the further away you travel, the stranger the worlds get. T he sun and moon always shine, the basic laws of physics are the s ame. However, the chance events which have shaped our particular version of Earth, such as the dinosaur-killer asteroid impact, mi ght not have happened and things may well have turned out rather differently. But only our Earth hosts mankind. .