However, the chance events which have shaped our particular version of Earth, such as the dinosaur-killer asteroid impact, might not have happened and things may well have turned out rather differently.
The sun and moon always shine, the basic laws of physics are the same. And the further away you travel, the stranger the worlds get. The Long Earth: our Earth is but one of a chain of parallel worlds, lying side by side in a higher space of possibilities, each differing from its neighbours by a little (or a lot): an infinite landscape of infinite possibilities. And when Sally gets back, she finds Willis has put the secret of the belt on the internet. Willis came here with equipment and animals, meaning to explore and colonise.
She straps this on - and ‘steps’ sideways into an America covered with virgin forest. But Sally finds a kind of home-made utility belt. The long earth : Pratchett, Terry, author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The long earth by Pratchett, Terry, author Publication date 2013 Topics Recluses - Fiction, Space and time - Fiction, Time travel - Fiction, Recluses, Space and time, Time travel, Madison (Wis. Junior cop Sally Jansson is called out to the house of Willis Lynsey, a reclusive scientist, for an animal-cruelty complaint: the man was seen forcing a horse in through the door of his home. The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett (with Stephen Baxter)
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