num_pages: 373
description: It is the middle of the twenty-first century.After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading farther into the Long Earth. Society on a battered Datum Earth and beyond continues to evolve.And new challenges emerge.Now an elderly and cantankerous AI Lobsang is living with Agnes in an exotic far-distant world. He's determined to lead a normal life in New Springfieldthey even adopt a child. But there are rumors strange sightings in the sky. On this world something isn't right. . . .Millions of steps awaylearning about a hidden family history and the father he never knewJoshua receives an urgent summons from New Springfield.Lobsang has come to understand that what has blighted his Earth is also a threat to all the worlds of the Long Earth. Countering this threat will require the combined efforts of humankind machine and the super-intelligent Next. And some must make the ultimate sacrifice. . . .
language: English
title: The Long Utopia
publisher: Harper