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Klappentext It is the middle of the 21st century . After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth. Society! on a battered Datum Earth and beyond! continues to evolve. And new challenges emerge. Now an elderly and cantankerous AI! Lobsang is living with Agnes in an exotic! far-distant world. He's determined to lead a normal life in New Springfield - they even adopt a child. But there are rumours! strange sightings in the sky! even hauntings. On this world! something isn't right... Millions of steps away - while learning about a hidden family history and the father he never knew - Joshua receives an urgent summons from New Springfield. Lobsang has come to understand that what has blighted his Earth is a threat to all the worlds of the Long Earth. To counter this threat will require the combined efforts of humankind! machine and the super-intelligent Next. And some must make the ultimate sacrifice . . . Zusammenfassung After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth! and society! on a battered Datum Earth and beyond! continues to evolve. Lobsang now understands the enormity of what's taking place beneath the surface of his earth - a threat to all the worlds of the Long Earth.