The Expanded Earth

<p><b>THE TOP TEN <i>TIMES </i>BESTSELLER</b><br><b>A <i>FINANCIAL TIMES</i> ''BEST BOOKS OF SUMMER 2025''</b><br><b><br>''An excellent, inventive novel'' <i>Financial Times</i></b><br><br><b>''<i>The Expanded Earth</i> is a wonderfully sustained celebration of human ingenuity'' <i>Irish Times</i></b><br><br><b>''I loved the fantastic, horrifying, heartwarming, mind-boggling adventure of it'' Emma Hooper</b><br><br><b>''Mikey Please has one of the most brilliant minds I know'' Daniel Kwan, director of E<i>verything Everywhere All At Once</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>Many do not survive. This story is about what happens to those who do.<br><br>Those who wake to find themselves transformed, the world around them reshaped and magnified into a place of astounding abundance and deadly peril. <br><br>Who travel their altered lands and must adapt, forge new communities, or fight against them.<br><br>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 . . .<br><br>Welcome to the micropcalypse. Welcome to <i>The Expanded Earth</i>.</p>