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  Only You Can Save Mankind

  Johnny and the Dead

  Johnny and the Bomb

  BOOKS BY STEPHEN BAXTER

  NORTHLAND

  Stone Spring

  Bronze Summer

  Iron Winter

  FLOOD

  Flood

  Ark

  TIME’S TAPESTRY

  Emperor

  Conqueror

  Navigator

  Weaver

  DESTINY’S CHILDREN

  Coalescent

  Exultant

  Transcendent

  Resplendent

  A TIME ODYSSEY (WITH

  ARTHUR C. CLARKE)

  Time’s Eye

  Sunstorm

  Firstborn

  MANIFOLD

  Manifold 1: Time

  Manifold 2: Space

  Manifold 3: Origin

  Phase Space

  MAMMOTH

  Silverhair

  Longtusk

  Icebones

  Behemoth

  THE NASA TRILOGY

  Voyage

  Titan

  Moonseed

  THE XEELEE SEQUENCE

  Raft

  Timelike Infinity

  Flux

  Ring

  Xeelee: An Omnibus: Raft, Timelike

  Infinity, Flux, Ring

  Vacuum Diagrams

  THE WEB

  The Web: Gulliverzone

  The Web: Webcrash

  NON-SERIES

  Anti-Ice

  The Time Ships

  Traces

  The Light of Other Days

  (with Arthur C. Clarke)

  Evolution

  The H-Bomb Girl

  Dr. Who: The Wheel of Ice

  Last and First Contacts

  Universes

  NONFICTION

  Deep Future

  Omegatropic

  Revolutions in the Earth:

  James Hutton and the True Age

  of the World

  The Science of Avatar

  BY TERRY PRATCHETT AND STEPHEN BAXTER

  The Long Earth

  The Long War

  The Long Mars

  Credits

  Cover design by R. Shailer / TW

  Cover photographs © Shutterstock

  Copyright

  This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  THE LONG UTOPIA. Copyright © 2015 by Terry and Lyn Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  Published simultaneously in Great Britain by Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers, a division of Random House Group, Ltd.

  FIRST U.S. EDITION

  Art by Richard Shailer

  ISBN: 978-0-06-229733-4

  EPub Edition June 2015 ISBN 9780062297358

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