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Informationen zum Autor Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books which have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood for services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any . www.terrypratchettbooks.com Stephen Baxter is one of the UK's most acclaimed writers of science fiction and a multi-award winner. His many books include the classic Xeelee sequence, the Time's Odyssey novels (written with Arthur C. Clarke) and Time Ships , a sequel to H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine , a Doctor Who novel, The Wheel of Ice , and most recently the epic, far-future novels Proxima and Ultima . He lives in Northumberland. Klappentext ""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 has the mud, blood and blasted landcape of No Man's Land gone? "2015: Madison, Wisconsin." Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of Willis Linsay, a reclusive - some said mad, others dangerous - scientist. It appears to be arson but the firemen to have caused more damage than the fire itself. There's no sign of any human remains in the wrecked house, but on a mantlepiece Monica finds a curious gadget - a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a...potato. It is the prototype of an invention that Linsay called a 'stepper'; an invention he put up on the web for all the world to see - and use - an invention that would change the way Mankind viewed his world for ever. "And that's an understatement if ever there was one"...Because the stepper enables the person using it to step sideways into another America, another wherever that person happened to be, another Earth. And if the person using it keeps on stepping, they keep on entering even more Earths. This is the Long Earth. It is our Earth - and a chain of parallel Earths, each differing from its neighbour by sometimes very little (or quite a lot). It's an infinite chain, offering 'steppers' an infinite landscape of infinite possibilities. And the further away a stepper travels, the stranger - and sometimes more dangerous - the Earths become. The sun and moon always shine, the basic laws of physics are the same. However, the chance events which have shaped Earth, such as the dinosaur-killer asteroid impact, might not have happened and things may well have turned out rather differently. And until Willis Linsay invented his stepper, only our Earth hosted mankind. Or so we thought. Because it turns out there are some people - such as Joshua Valiente - who are natural 'steppers', who don't need a stepper to explore these other Earths. Joshua's a pioneer, and and the possibilies are, of course, endless. Just be careful what you wish for..." Zusammenfassung 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....
