title: The Long Cosmos: A Novel (Long Earth)
author:  Terry Pratchett 
description: Praise for The Long Mars: Panoramic and fascinating... (Kirkus Reviews on THE LONG MARS)<br /><br />Praise for The Long Earth: <i>The Long Earth</i> is a brilliant Science Fiction collaboration with Stephen Baxter: a love letter to all Pratchett fans, readers, and lovers of wonder everywhere This novel is a gift to be shared with anyone who loves to be amazed. (Io9 on THE LONG EARTH)<br /><br />Stay tuned for the next episode of a very old-fashioned sf quest yarn (think Jules Verne and 2001) that, since Pratchett is involved, is crammed with scientifically informed amusement. (Booklist on THE LONG EARTH)<br /><br />In this thought-provoking collaboration, Pratchett (the Discworld series) and Baxter (Stone Spring) create an infinity of worlds to explore fascinating premise (Publishers Weekly on THE LONG EARTH)
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  Terry Pratchett
  
    
  
  Moving Pictures
  
    
  
  A Novel of Discworld®
  
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  I would like to thank all the wonderful people who made this book possible.  
  Thank you. Thank you. Thank you…
  
  
  
  
  
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  Watch…
  
  This is space. It’s sometimes called the final frontier.
  
  (Except that of course you can’t have a final frontier, because there’d be
  nothing for it to be a frontier to, but as frontiers go, it’s pretty
  penultimate…)
  
  And against the wash of stars a nebula hangs, vast and black, one red giant
  gleaming like the madness of gods…
  
  And then the gleam is seen as the glint in a giant eye and it is eclipsed by
  the blink of an eyelid and the darkness moves a flipper and Great A’Tuin, star
  turtle, swims onward through the void.
  
  On its back, four giant elephants. On their shoulders, rimmed with water,
  glittering under its tiny orbiting sunlet, spinning majestically around the
  mountains at its frozen Hub, lies the Discworld, world and mirror of world