The Science of Discworld

The Science of Discworld

Genre: fantasy, discworld, science, non-fiction

Published: 03-06-1999

Pages: 416

Rating: 3.98

Language: eng

eBook status: Open   AudioBook status: Skipped

ISBN: 9780091886578

Publisher: Ebury Press

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Description

When a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe on their hands: Roundworld, where neither magic nor common sense seems to stand a chance against logic.

The Universe, of course, is our own. And Roundworld is Earth. As the wizards watch their accidental creation grow, we follow the story of our universe from the primal singularity of the Big Bang to the internet and beyond.

Through this original Terry Pratchett story (with intervening chapters from Cohen and Stewart) we discover how puny and insignificant individual lives are against a cosmic backdrop of creation and disaster. Yet, paradoxically, we see how the richness of a universe based on rules, has led to a complex world and at least one species that tried to get a grip of what was going on.