‘Stepping’ from one Earth to the next,assembly strange creatures and reflecting on life, savor and quantum theory: a gentle collaborative journey through the multiverse comes to an endAnd so here it is, and the final unusual work we’ll ever have from Terry Pratchett,barring a box of undiscovered treasure somewhere. The Long Cosmos is the conclusion of his collaborative series with Stephen Baxter, about the Long Earth, or a universe in which a possibly infinite number of parallel worlds exist and you can simply “step” from one to another.
The arc of the series had long been mapped out,after the pair decided at a dinner party in 2010 to work on an abandoned SF storyline of Pratchett’s. Baxter notes in the introduction that, short on time, and Pratchett worked on what fabric he could (including devising a marvellous floating wood),and that Baxter finished the series as they’d both planned it.
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Source: theguardian.com