The Expanded Earth
A TOP TEN TIMES BESTSELLER
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2026
Corsair (Verlag)
978-1-4721-5835-2 (ISBN)
Corsair (Verlag)
978-1-4721-5835-2 (ISBN)
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A high-stakes adventure packed with jeopardy and invention The Expanded Earth is a classic-in-the-making about the capacity of small things to effect great change. A story for grown-ups by bestselling Waterstones Children's Book Prize-winner Mikey Please, wIth illustrations by the author.
THE TOP TEN TIMES BESTSELLER
A FINANCIAL TIMES 'BEST BOOKS OF SUMMER 2025'
'An excellent, inventive novel' Financial Times
'The Expanded Earth is a wonderfully sustained celebration of human ingenuity' Irish Times
'I loved the fantastic, horrifying, heartwarming, mind-boggling adventure of it' Emma Hooper
'Mikey Please has one of the most brilliant minds I know' Daniel Kwan, director of Everything Everywhere All At Once
A strange siren-song sounds around the world and in an instant humankind shrinks to the height of a handspan. Everyone wakes up tiny: in years to come the moment will be known as The Descent.
Many do not survive. This story is about what happens to those who do.
Those who wake to find themselves transformed, the world around them reshaped and magnified into a place of astounding abundance and deadly peril.
Who travel their altered lands and must adapt, forge new communities, or fight against them.
Those who will come to know the Godlike force that has been awakened, not in the skies as we've been taught to expect, but in the oceans below . . .
Welcome to the micropcalypse. Welcome to The Expanded Earth.
THE TOP TEN TIMES BESTSELLER
A FINANCIAL TIMES 'BEST BOOKS OF SUMMER 2025'
'An excellent, inventive novel' Financial Times
'The Expanded Earth is a wonderfully sustained celebration of human ingenuity' Irish Times
'I loved the fantastic, horrifying, heartwarming, mind-boggling adventure of it' Emma Hooper
'Mikey Please has one of the most brilliant minds I know' Daniel Kwan, director of Everything Everywhere All At Once
A strange siren-song sounds around the world and in an instant humankind shrinks to the height of a handspan. Everyone wakes up tiny: in years to come the moment will be known as The Descent.
Many do not survive. This story is about what happens to those who do.
Those who wake to find themselves transformed, the world around them reshaped and magnified into a place of astounding abundance and deadly peril.
Who travel their altered lands and must adapt, forge new communities, or fight against them.
Those who will come to know the Godlike force that has been awakened, not in the skies as we've been taught to expect, but in the oceans below . . .
Welcome to the micropcalypse. Welcome to The Expanded Earth.
Mikey Please is a Bristol based BAFTA-winning and OSCAR-nominated writer, director, animator and illustrator. An alumnus of the Royal College of Art (MA Animation) his music videos and short films have garnered over 60 international awards. In 2023 he was appointed as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Café at the Edge of the Woods (HarperCollins), his critically acclaimed debut picture book, has been published in a dozen languages and was overal winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2025. A career in making and animating miniature puppets makes him particularly well placed to write a book about tiny people. The Expanded Earth is his first novel.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.4.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Expanded Earth series |
| Zusatzinfo | Approximately 83 b/w illustrations (1 chapter head per chapter plus additional full-page graphics) |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 126 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4721-5835-0 / 1472158350 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4721-5835-2 / 9781472158352 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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