The Cueball, as called by Bill Chambers, is a Joker located in the Corn Belt.[1][2][3]
Appearance[]
This world is described as having colourless ground that is utterly smooth, like a pool ball. It is immersed in a perpetual crimson-red dust storm, and had a cloudless deep blue sky.[1][2][3]
The Long Earth[]
The Cueball was discovered in 2030 during the Journey, by Joshua Valienté and Lobsang. They couldn't understand how it had come to be the way it is.[1]
The Long War[]
In 2040, during the events of The Long War, Bill Chambers tells Joshua Valienté an apocryphal story of a comber who spent the night on the Cueball alone and naked, for a bet. In the morning, with a hangover, this alleged individual stepped North, and found himself on another planet, where, in the sky, he saw the Milky Way from the outside.[2][3]