The long cosmos
By: Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
Contributors: Baxter, Stephen, author
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Series: Long Earth series
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780062297372
Subjects: Space flight; Artificial intelligence; Space and time; Fiction
Description: The Next--the hyper-intelligent post-humans--realize that the missive they received from the center of the galaxy contains instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial intelligence knows as The Machine. But to build this computer the size of an Earth continent, they must obtain help from the more populous and still industrious worlds of mankind.