The Long Cosmos: A Novel Audiobook (Free)
- Michael Fenton Stevens
- 12 h 23 min
- HarperAudio
- 2016-06-14
Summary:
The thrilling conclusion towards the internationally bestselling Long Earth series explores the best question of most: What is this is of life?
2070-71. Almost six decades after Step Time, a new society continues to evolve in the Long Earth. Now, a note continues to be received: “Join us.”
The Next-the hyper-intelligent post-humans-realize that this missive contains instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial intelligence referred to as The Machine. But to build this computer about The Long Cosmos: A Book the size of an Earth continent, they must obtain help from the more populous and still industrious worlds of mankind.
Meanwhile, on the trek in the High Meggers, Joshua Valienté, right now nearing seventy, is certainly saved from death whenever a troll band discovers him. Living among the trolls as he recovers, Joshua develops a deeper knowledge of this collective-intelligence species and its society. He discovers that some old trolls, with capacious recollections, act as communal libraries, and go on a very strange Long Earth globe, in caverns under the main systems of trees and shrubs as tall as mountains.
Valienté also learns something a lot more profound . about life and its purpose in the Longer Earth: We cultivate the cosmos to increase the opportunities forever and joy in this universe, also to prepare for brand-new universes to come.
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