The Long Mars
- 432
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Long Mars” widens “The Long Earth” to its largest scale yet, carrying the idea of stepping between worlds out to Mars. Some readers praise its ideas; others find it slow, with strands that stay distant and characters who mostly serve the plot. Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter run several storylines at once, among them the crossing of the Martian worlds and the rise of a new kind of human, which some readers prefer to the Mars journey of the title.
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About the book
The Long Mars is a science fiction novel by English writers Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter.
Reading order · The Long Earth
Full order & progress →- The Long EarthStart here
7.57.5 / 10 - The Long War
7.27.2 / 10 - The Long MarsThis book
7.47.4 / 10 - The Long Utopia
7.77.7 / 10 - The Long Cosmos
7.77.7 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.1 across 150 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 51% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.4 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 6.9 | 9 | 6% |
| Hardcover | 7.1 | 141 | 94% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Long Mars?
It has 432 pages — shorter than 54% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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