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A generation after the events that launched the Long Earth, humanity has spread across the new worlds opened by stepping. Valhalla, emerging over a million steps from the original Datum on Earth, thrives on a bountiful environment and echoes the core values of colonial America. Yet its growing restlessness and the grip of the Datum government set the stage for a crisis. Joshua, now married, is summoned by Lobsang to resolve a threat that could plunge the Long Earth into an unprecedented war.
First publish date: 2013
Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera
Authors: Terry Pratchett
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