2045-2059. Following the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day as well as the Yellowstone eruption humanity is dispersing further into the Long Globe, and society, on the battered Datum Globe and beyond, continues to evolve.

Right now an elderly and cantankerous AI, Lobsang lives in disguise with Agnes in an exotic, far-distant world. He’s confident they’re leading a normal lifestyle in New Springfield – they also adopt a kid – nonetheless it appears they have been guided there for a reason. As rumours of strange sightings and hauntings proliferate, it turns into apparent that something is quite awry using this type of world.

Millions of techniques away, Joshua is on a personal journey of discovery: learning about the father he never knew and a key family history. But then he receives a summons from New Springfield. Lobsang right now understands the enormity of what’s occurring beneath the surface of his globe – a threat to all the worlds of the Long Earth.

To counter-top this threat will require the combined efforts of humankind, machine as well as the super-intelligent Next. Plus some must make the ultimate sacrifice .