# The Thousand Earths

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- Book: [The Thousand Earths](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-baxter/the-thousand-earths) ([The Thousand Earths.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-baxter/the-thousand-earths.md))
- Authors: [Stephen Baxter](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-baxter)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-7322-894-8
- Published: 2022-09-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

In 2145AD John Hackett's adventure is just beginning. In Year 30, Mela's story is coming to a close. Hackett, in his trusty ship the Perseus, is not just a space traveller - beginning his travels with an expedition to Neptune and back - but, thanks to the time-dilation effect, a time traveller as well. His new mission will take him to Andromeda, to get a close-up look at the constellation which will eventually crash into the Milky Way, and give humanity a heads-up about the challenges which are coming. A mission which will take him five million years to complete. Not only is Hackett exploring unknown space, but he will return to a vastly different time. Mela's world is coming to an end. Erosion is eating away at the edges of every landmass - first at a rate of ten metres a year, but fast accelerating, displacing people and animals as the rising Tide destroys everything in its path. Putting more and more pressure on the people - and resources - which remain. She and her people have always known that this long-predicted end to their home, one of the Thousand Earths, is coming - but that makes their fight to survive, to protect each other, no less desperate . . . and no less doomed. A beautiful, page-turning story which interweaves the tale of these two characters, separated by both space and time, in a hopeful exploration of humanities' future, this is Stephen Baxter at his best.