Book Excerpt for the Day

    Some, like Helen’s family the Greens, had gone trekking out into the stepwise wilderness and had begun to build new communities: the story of colonial-era America, rerun across an infinite frontier.  And some just wandered off, helping themselves to the inexhaustible riches of the Long Earth: Thomas’s combers.

    All of which was fine, until the day you needed root-canal dentistry.  Or your e-book reader broke down.  Or you worried whether your kids were ever going to learn anything more than how to plough a field or trap a rabbit.  Or you got sick of the mosquitoes.  Or, damn it, you just wanted to go shopping.

    (from The Long War by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter)

    6½*/10.  The complete review is here.

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