EAN: 9780062297389

THE LONG COSMOS - TERRY PRATCHETT STEPHEN BAXTE...

2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day  a new society continues to evolve in the Long
Earth. Now  a message has been received: ?Join us.? The Next?the hyper-intelligent
post-humans?realize that the missive contains instructions for kick-starting the development of
an immense artificial intelligence known as The Machine. But to build this computer  the size
of an Earth continent  they must obtain help from the more populous and still industrious
worlds of mankind. Meanwhile  on a trek in the High Meggers  Joshua Valienté  now nearing
seventy  is saved from death when a troll band discovers him. Living among the trolls as he
recovers  Joshua develops a deeper understanding of this collective-intelligence species and
its society. He discovers that some older trolls  with capacious memories  act as communal
libraries and live on a very strange Long Earth world  in caverns under the root systems of
trees as tall as mountains. He also learns something much more profound about life and its
purpose in the Long Earth: We cultivate the cosmos to maximize the opportunities for life and
joy in this universe  and to prepare for new universes to come.

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