The Long Utopia (The Long Earth #4)

by Terry Pratchett

‘We’re loners. Loners just survive, they move on. They don’t build things,

‘I despise the religions we have, nothing but flummery and manipulation based on texts and materials so reworked over time they’re all but meaningless. I despise the division religions bring; humans have enough problems without that.

As if London is one great decaying tree trunk through which the maggots and the weevils chew their way, selling bits of bark to each other for farthings …