The novel “The Long Utopia” by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter was published for the first time in 2016. It’s the fourth book of The Long Earth series and follows “The Long Mars”.

By the mid-21st century, the human species has spread over an indefinite number of parallel versions of the Earth. People who don’t want to be found can choose to move to another very distant Earth, on their own or by mixing with another group in which no one knows them. Lobsang tries this path by using a very natural-looking body produced exactly with the purpose of trying to live like a normal human being.

While Joshua Valienté is on the search for his father and ends up uncovering a much more complex past than he thought, it’s not always easy for ordinary humans to live with members of the new species that emerged among them. These are problems that may disappear when Lobsang discovers that he went to live in a world where seemingly impossible things are happening that clearly indicate that extremely powerful forces are at work.