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The Long Mars
- Long Earth, Book 3
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens
- Series: The Long Earth, Book 3
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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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. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous rescue work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across the Long Mars and wants her to accompany him. But Sally soon learns that Willis has an ulterior motive for his request....
Meanwhile U. S. Navy Commander Maggie Kauffman has embarked on an incredible journey of her own, leading an expedition to the outer limits of the far Long Earth.
For Joshua, the crisis he faces is much closer to home. He becomes embroiled in the plight of the Next: the super-bright post-humans who are beginning to emerge from their "long childhood" in the community called Happy Landings, located deep in the Long Earth. Ignorance and fear have caused "normal" human society to turn against the Next. A dramatic showdown seems inevitable....
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- Kindle Customer
- 01-14-18
slow death
The first book in this series was amazing and it has been slowly declining ever since. By the end of this one I had had quite enough of all the characters involved. I know there are two more in the series but I just don't think I can make myself wasted credits on them.
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- Elle White
- 12-19-16
A Slow Story
If you’ve listened to books by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter before, how does this one compare?
I love both Pratchett (I've read all of Discworld) and I've enjoyed Baxter. I also really enjoyed The Long Earth. But at book three in this series, the story seems to slow down. At points I wished I was reading rather than listening so that I could scan ahead for plot movement. The novel stays within the world, but it didn't follow through on it's promise to expand it - literally into another world.
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- Jewel
- 07-04-14
Disappointing
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The Long Mars is the third book in the Long Earth series, but while during my listen to the Long Earth (and the Long war) I was completely engaged in the book, the long mars fails to provide the same excitement.
The Long Earth basically blew my mind, the concept of endless earths out there, just waiting to be conquer by humanity is a new and exiting idea which kept me at the edge of my sit, the long war has introduced the idea of other sentient beings out there, again with a somewhat new and interesting spin on evolution and our basic understanding of intelligence.
This last book however seemed to do nothing more than to repeat these ideas with no real purpose, the only truly new idea was that of the Next which didn't really develop enough to hold it's own. Additionally the plot seems somewhat erratic making it a little hard to focus on which expedition is being followed at any given time.
The expedition to mars which really is the main plot of this book seems irrelevant in light of the long earth, and the explanation given for it's importance just doesn't seem right.
So while I loved the first and second books I was slightly bored with this one.
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- Rachel
- 06-27-14
More good story from this team
If you're considering this one, you've read the other two already. No? Go read The Long Earth--now.
The Long Mars was as enjoyable and interesting as the two books that came before it. I always feel a series of connections to my own life, starting with the setting in Madison (sort of) where I used to live. I love that the authors talk about specific locations and connect their world to mine.
I had a little more trouble than usual following the timeline in this one, but I think I was distracted, maybe. I kept confusing which ship we were following on which trip. However, it didn't seem to matter much and I thoroughly enjoyed the book.
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- Kindle Customer
- 10-13-14
Completed the series, but no satisfactory ending
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
if you got through the first two books, it's worth the listen to complete the series. The performance really hampered the story. The narrator is British, and is struggling to pull off an American accent. Characters sound mostly the same, pronunciation is British, and all words that end in an "a" sound turn into "er", so you get a lot of "Joshu-er"s and "ide-er"s. The story was lackluster as well, too many "deus en la machina" plot holes.
Would you be willing to try another one of Michael Fenton Stevens’s performances?
Never. His performance would drive me away from titles read by him.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
no.
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- W. Seligman
- 08-26-14
A disappointment
I had two problems with this audiobook.
The first is the book itself. There's no real plot and no character development. Stuff just happens. There are many interesting concepts, including the "long Mars" of the title, but not much is done with them. The ideas are offered, there are hints of mystery in the background, but that's it: no resolutions based on those ideas.
The second is with the reader, Michael Fenton Stevens. He has a great voice, and he can British accents with ease. However, most of the characters in The Long Mars are not British. His American accents sound phony and affected, and it doesn't help that he pronounces words the British way even when he's reading in an American voice. (To be fair, my attempts at a British accent probably sound even more fake to someone from Britain). His Chinese and Russian voices sound similarly over-accented and unrealistic.
The end result is a dull book read by a distracting reader. If you fell so in love with the first book in the series, The Long Earth, that you enjoyed the sequel, The Long War (which I felt had similar issues), then you'll like The Long Mars. Otherwise, I suggest you give this one a miss. Pratchett, Baxter, and Stevens have done better elsewhere.
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- EDJ
- 10-18-21
The Long Mars
I listened to it immediately a second time after I finished it the first time. I’m glad there’s more to the series. I have a good imagination and this gave me quite a workout.
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- Colette Kerr
- 10-03-21
Trite and full of woo
The author shows no understanding of how a person adapts to new situations. If you've ever played portal you'd understand that learning to think in a long earth is not as hard as the author thinks
Also there is a level of unwelcome mysticism posited by otherwise scientific characters.
Also flag planting nationalism feels at odds with the other books
Honestly this ruined the series for me. Death by a thousand small gripes that make the whole series fall apart
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- Mike
- 05-04-21
Just the worst accent attempt ever.
I couldn't finish this one. I loved the Long Earth and suffered through the horrendous narrating because I'm a fan of Terry Pratchett. But this one just was just too much. I won't go too far into it since it's probably a personal preference, but it would have been so much better if Michael Stevens had not continued to attempt an American English accent. It truly sounded like someone was shooting for parody.
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- Neil
- 11-12-20
Practhett and Baxter keep up the good work.
The Long Earth series continues to suck me in, and Stevens continues to use a plethora of voices to bring different characters to life.