Earth is a great place, but there are just too damned many people cluttering up the joint. But not to worry, because a standard issue mad scientist has a solution-he found a way to Step into one of the infinity of parallel universes we are surrounded by. The Long Earth is a post apocalypse book without that whole bothersome apocalypse thing. All writers are solitary beings, it comes with the territory. So just about every writer has fallen in love with the idea of a world devoid of all those annoying people who distract them from getting their work done. …