Sentence examples for long earth from inspiring English sources
The "Long Earth" is a sequence of Earth-like parallel worlds reachable by means of a device called a "stepper".
Co-written with sci-fi author Stephen Baxter, the fourth work in The Long Earth series will be set in a universe of infinite parallel Earth's that characters can travel between simply by stepping.
The Long Utopia, the fourth in his science fiction series The Long Earth, co-written with SF novelist Stephen Baxter, is set in a universe with an infinite number of parallel Earths which characters can "step" between.
The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter (Doubleday).
Two giants of SF and fantasy, Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett – have collaborated on their Long Earth series and The Long Mars (Doubleday, £18.99) is the third outing.
In the future, seismic upheavals have created the Long Earth, and societies on the different worlds have developed in strange new ways.
The collapse of the two-mile long, earth-filled dam would release eight billion cubic metres of water in the lake behind it in a giant wave which would flood Mosul – a city of 1.7 million people 20 miles downstream – to a depth of 60ft.
Many of the components of these sources are only just beginning to show signs of any internal structure on the longest Earth baselines and space VLBI is the only technique that permits investigation of their most compact structure at the frequency of the spectral peak.
Some forts along the wall got their fresh water from aqueducts fed from the north; a hundred miles north, the Romans would build a forty-mile-long earth-and-wood palisade and other tactical and ceremonial structures.
Of these six districts, the Sny Island, with a fifty-four-mile-long earth-and-sand levee, is by far the largest, covering about a hundred and ten thousand acres; in fact, its levee is the largest in Illinois, and one of the oldest in the country.
As we sped through the desert toward town, a double rainbow appeared in the east, its arc seemingly ending in the old tailings ponds, once the longest earth-filled dam in the world.
