The thrilling conclusion to the internationally bestselling Long Earth series
explores the greatest question of all: What is the meaning of life?
2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day, a new society continues to evolve in
the Long Earth. Now, a message has been received: "Join us."
The Next—the hyper-intelligent post-humans—realize that the missive contains
instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial
intelligence known 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.
Meanwhile, on a trek in the High Meggers, Joshua Valienté, now nearing seventy,
is saved