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Phil Leader (619 KP) rated The Long War in Books

Nov 20, 2019  
The Long War
The Long War
Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter | 2014 | Fiction & Poetry
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8.5 (2 Ratings)
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Taking up the story a generation after the events in The Long Earth, this book investigates the impact of human expansion on the races that already inhabit the stepwise worlds, in particular the Trolls and Beagles.

As with human colonisation throughout history, mankind has embraced the Long Earth and made the assumption that it is 'theirs' to do with as they want. And as history shows, this usually doesn't end well for the existing natives.

This then is an exploration of this in the context of the Long Earth, the potential for conflict arising from both mankind and the other sentient races and raising questions about how to co-exist. The title is a little misleading as there is no war as such, but it does set the tone.

As with the first book, the main interest in this is with the investigation of the different Earths that can be conceived, and how sentient races could be very different from us not only physically but also in their social norms, philosophy and ambitions.

This didn't measure up to the first book but it's not a bad sequel by any means