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You could shuffle (or delete) over 90% of this book's content, and mix up the protagonists, and it would make just as much (or as little) sense. These 'characters' are only in place to deliver lectures about whatever random scene we are in at the time. I suspect he thinks this flippant tone is comic, but he comes across as a nerd who laughs at his own jokes before the punchline. All his 'characters' speak in the same glib white middle class male heterosexual voice - even the Chinese - even the ladies.

Long war 2 how to#

Unfortunately Baxter has no idea how to write characters, on a good day he can just about manage a job description with a back story. If Pratchett had written this it's possible he could have drawn the threads together into something more emotionally and intellectually satisfying.

Long war 2 series#

It's Baxter's task to pad them out and link them up, but the structure of this book is at best a travelogue and at worse - a disjointed series of unrelated vignettes crying out for a unifying theme or character drama.

I can't think of a worse possible writer to collaborate with for this type of novel.Д«axter's only talent is coming up with a range of superficial 'what ifs', but in this book - the core ideas are Pratchett's. Down boy!'Д«axter may not of quite broken it but he definitely wee-ed on the rug and chewed the sofa. 'Here's one I've had under the bed for years, try not to break it. 'Ooooh please Sir Terry, Let me play with one of your nice shiny worlds!'ДЄnd sir Terry threw him a short story world as a bone - in order to escape. In this unlucky universe Stephen Baxter must have cornered Terry Pratchett at a Sci Fi convention, pouncing on him like an over excited puppy. Unfortunately we live on the ONE world where the forces of nature did NOT prevent this book from being written. 'Ooooh please Sir Terry, Let me play with one of your nice shiny worlds!' And sir Terry threw him a short story world as a There is a place in the multiverse for even the most improbable of worlds, even a flat one on the back of a giant turtle. There is a place in the multiverse for even the most improbable of worlds, even a flat one on the back of a giant turtle. If you thought the setup in the first book would be paid out by some actual plot in the second, you're going to be disappointed.more Beyond that we get some disconnected stories of various individuals that we're not really that attached to. Baxter and Pratchett do a marvelous job of continuing to explore the ramifications of the Long Earth, but that's about all the book is. Instead, the book has the exact same problem as the original: It's a dozen or so characters in search of a plot. If you thought the setup in the first book would be paid out b To start off with, the title is a fallacy: there's no war here, long or otherwise. To start off with, the title is a fallacy: there's no war here, long or otherwise.

Joshua, now a married man, is summoned by Lobsang to deal with a gathering multiple crisis that threatens to plunge the Long Earth into a war unlike any mankind has waged before.more But the trolls are beginning to react to humanity's thoughtless exploitation. Meanwhile the Long Earth is suffused by the song of the trolls, graceful hive-mind humanoids. A new 'America', called Valhalla, is emerging more than a million steps from Datum Earth, with core American values restated in the plentiful environment of the Long Earth - and Valhalla is growing restless under the control of the Datum government. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth - but in turn the Long Earth is shaping mankind. Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. A new 'America', called Valhalla, is emerging more than a mill A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping.