1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong,and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where has the mud,blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone 2015: Madison,Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive (some said mad,others dangerous) scientist when she finds a curious gadget - a box containing some wiring,a three-way switch and a...potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way Mankind views his world for ever. And that is an understatement if ever there was one...
Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdISBN: 9780552164085Number of pages: 432Weight: 299 gDimensions: 199 x 130 x 26 mm
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By turns thrillingly expansive,joyously inventive and utterly engrossing .An absorbing collaborative effort from two SF giants...a marriage made in fan heaven - Pratchett's warmth and humanity allied to Baxter's extraordinarily fertile science-fictional imagination...there's much to enjoy...a charming,absorbing and somehow spacious piece of imagineeringThe idea of parallel Earths is one of the most enduring that science fiction has given us,but rarely has it been explored with quite so much gusto as in this new novel by two of the giants of British speculative fiction...a triumph...accessible,fun and thoughtful Literary alchemy...In the hands of Pratchett and Baxter,the possibilites are almost infinite...a story that revels in big ideas...you can sense the excitement of the authors as they toy with the labyrinthine possibilities of their premise,and it's infectious...thrillingly expansive,joyously inventive and utterly engrossing(Pratchett) succeeds in working seamlessly with Baxter...adding a welcome shot of fun to the world of science fiction
Terry Pratchett
Britain's most beloved creator of comic fantasy fiction,Terry Pratchett was the genius behind the Discworld series,as well as various other seminal story sequences.
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