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The Long Mars by Terry Pratchett; Stephen Baxter
Category: Fiction | Series: Long Earth Ser.
The third novel in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's "Long Earth" series, which Io9 calls "a brilliant science fiction collaboration."2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. S ...Show more
The Long Mars: (Long Earth 3) by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: The\Long Earth Ser.
2040-2045- In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father an ...Show more
The Long Mars (The Long Earth #3) by Terry Pratchett; Stephen Baxter
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Long Earth Ser.
2040. The Long Earth is in chaos. . . . The cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption is shutting down civilization. Whole populations flee to the relative safety of myriad stepwise Earths. Sally Linsay, Joshua Valiente, and Lobsang have all been involved in the perilous post-eruption clean-up. But Joshua face ...Show more
The Long War: (Long Earth #2) by Terry Pratchett; Stephen Baxter; Michael Fenton Stevens (Read by)
Category: Audio | Series: Long Earth Ser.
A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth - but in turn the Long Earth is shaping ma ...Show more
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns'In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a shepherd called Elzéard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elzéard sorting and then planting hundreds of acorns as he walks throu ...Show more
The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love' On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice to the Sea God. Atile'i however is determined to defy destiny and become the first to survive. Across the sea, Alice Shih's life is inte ...Show more
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
Escape to the ocean with the entrancing, unforgettable winner of the Costa Book of the Year - as read on BBC Radio 4. 'Mesmerising' MAGGIE O'FARRELL 'A unique talent' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'Wonderful' BRIDGET COLLINS 'Brilliant' CLARE CHAMBERS Near the island of Black Conch, a fisherman sings to himself w ...Show more
The Obelisk Gate: The Broken Earth, Book 2, WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD by N. K. Jemisin
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Broken Earth Trilogy Ser.
Winner of the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel Book 2 in the double Hugo-Award-winning trilogy The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun has found shelter, but not her missing daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a reque ...Show more
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived'An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by ...Show more
The Plague Forge (Dire Earth Cycle #3) by Jason M. Hough
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: The\Dire Earth Cycle Ser.
After discovering the first key in the wreckage of a crashed Builder ship, Skyler Luiken and his crew follow the migrating aura towers in search of the four remaining relics. But time is running out: the team learn that the next Builder event will be the last, and one of the objects has already fallen i ...Show more
The Science Timeline Wallbook - Unfold the Story of Science - From The Stoneage to Today by Christopher Lloyd (Illustrator); Patrick Skipworth (Illustrator); Andy Forshaw (Illustrator)
Category: Children's | Series: What on Earth Wallbook Series
Take a trip back in time more than 2,500 years to the first ever Olympic Games - then journey through hundreds of the most extraordinary stories of sport through to the present day. This unique history of sport includes a two-metre long fold-out timeline containing more than 1,000 pictures and captions ...Show more
The Sea - Nature and Culture by Richard Hamblyn
Category: Animals & Nature | Series: Earth Ser.
Sailing across time and geography, the imaginary and the real, The Sea chronicles the many physical and cultural meanings of the watery abyss. This book explores the sea and its meanings from ancient myths to contemporary geopolitics, from Atlantis to the Mediterranean migrant crisis. Richard Hambly ...Show more