The Resource The long earth, Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter, (sound recording)
The long earth, Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter, (sound recording)
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The item The long earth, Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter, (sound recording) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- 1916: The Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong and the wind in the leaves. Where have the mud, blood, and blasted landscape of no-man's-land gone? For that matter, where has Percy gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Police officer Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive--some say mad, others allege dangerous--scientist who seems to have vanished. Sifting through the wreckage, Jansson find a curious gadget: a box containing some rudimentary wiring, a three-way switch, and a potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way humankind views the world forever. The "stepper" enables a person using it to step sideways into another America, another wherever that person happened to be, another Earth. And if the person using it keeps on stepping, they keep on entering even more Earths. This is the Long Earth. And the further away a stepper travels, the stranger -- and sometimes more dangerous -- the Earths become
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 9 sound discs (CD) (ac. 11 hr., 30 min.)
- Note
-
- Compact discs
- Unabridged
- Isbn
- 9781846573378
- Label
- The long earth
- Title
- The long earth
- Statement of responsibility
- Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 1916: The Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong and the wind in the leaves. Where have the mud, blood, and blasted landscape of no-man's-land gone? For that matter, where has Percy gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Police officer Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive--some say mad, others allege dangerous--scientist who seems to have vanished. Sifting through the wreckage, Jansson find a curious gadget: a box containing some rudimentary wiring, a three-way switch, and a potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way humankind views the world forever. The "stepper" enables a person using it to step sideways into another America, another wherever that person happened to be, another Earth. And if the person using it keeps on stepping, they keep on entering even more Earths. This is the Long Earth. And the further away a stepper travels, the stranger -- and sometimes more dangerous -- the Earths become
- Cataloging source
- Nz
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Pratchett, Terry
- Dewey number
- 823/.914
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- LC call number
- PR6066.R34
- LC item number
- L66 2012b
- Literary text for sound recordings
- fiction
- Music parts
- not applicable
- PerformerNote
- Read by Michael Fenton Stevens
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
-
- Baxter, Stephen
- Stevens, Michael Fenton
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Talking books
- Recluses
- Space and time
- Madison (Wis.)
- Target audience
- general
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- The long earth, Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter, (sound recording)
- Note
-
- Compact discs
- Unabridged
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Control code
- 000050018230
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Extent
- 9 sound discs (CD) (ac. 11 hr., 30 min.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781846573378
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Other physical details
- digital
- Publisher number
- RC 1417
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)803971488
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- The long earth, Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter, (sound recording)
- Note
-
- Compact discs
- Unabridged
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Control code
- 000050018230
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Extent
- 9 sound discs (CD) (ac. 11 hr., 30 min.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781846573378
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Other physical details
- digital
- Publisher number
- RC 1417
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)803971488
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
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