The Long Mars

The Long Mars

Author	Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
Cover artist	Richard Shailer
Language	English
Series	The Long Earth
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	19 June 2014 (2014-06-19)
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	357 pp (hardcover)
ISBN	978-0-85752-174-3
Preceded by	The Long War
Followed by	The Long Utopia

The Long Mars^[1] is a science fiction novel by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter.

It is the third in a five-book series of the parallel-Earth sequence The Long Earth. Originally entitled The Long Childhood, it was changed to The Long Mars, and published on 19 June 2014.^[2] The paperback edition was published by Harper on 7 August 2014.^[3]

In the novel, Sally Linsay, her father, and a burned-out astronaut friend travel to Mars and find that it too has co-existing alternate worlds accessible to their technology. While many are lifeless and possess atmospheres as thin as those of Mars within our universe, others possess oceans, life forms and intelligent life.

See also

• Rainbow Mars, another novel involving alternate versions of Mars, which began as a proposed collaboration between Larry Niven and Terry Pratchett.^[4]
• Manifold: Origin, a novel by Stephen Baxter centered on alternate versions of the Moon

References

1. "The Long Mars". Terry Pratchett. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
2. "The Long Mars: (Long Earth 3)". The Random House Group. Archived from the original on 1 July 2014. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
3. "Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter: The Long Mars". Harper Collins Publishers. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
4. Niven, Larry (1999). "AFTERWORD: SVETZ AND THE BEANSTALK". Rainbow Mars. New York, New York, USA: Tom Doherty Associates. pp. 368–369. ISBN 9780312867775. Retrieved 27 February 2015. rainbow mars pratchett.