The thrilling conclusion towards the internationally bestselling Long Earth series explores the greatest question of all: What’s the meaning of life?

2070-71. Nearly six years after Step Day, a new society continues to progress in the Long Earth. Now, a note continues to be received: “Sign up for us.”

The Next-the hyper-intelligent post-humans-realize that this missive contains instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial intelligence known as The Machine. But to build this computer about The Long Cosmos: A Book the size of an Globe continent, they need to obtain help in the more populous but still industrious worlds of mankind.

Meanwhile, on a trek in the High Meggers, Joshua Valienté, right now nearing seventy, is usually saved from loss of life whenever a troll band discovers him. Living among the trolls as he recovers, Joshua develops a deeper understanding of this collective-intelligence varieties and its culture. He discovers that some old trolls, with capacious memories, become communal libraries, and live on a very unusual Long Earth world, in caverns under the root systems of trees and shrubs as high as mountains.

Valienté also learns something much more profound . about life and its own purpose in the Very long Globe: We cultivate the cosmos to maximize the opportunities forever and joy within this universe, also to prepare for fresh universes to arrive.