Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator - they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves, who attempted to divert humanity onto a different time track. But now it's all gone wrong - Victorian England has stagnated and the pace of progress would embarrass a limping snail. Unless something drastic is done, there won't be time for anyone to invent spaceflight and the human race will be turned into ice-pops. Why, though, did history come adrift? Was it Sir Arthur Nightingale's dismal book about natural selection? Or was it the devastating response by an obscure country vicar called Charles Darwin, whose bestselling "Theology of Species" made it impossible to refute the divine design of living creatures? Either way, it's no easy task to change history, as the wizards discover to their cost. Can the God of Evolution come to humanity's aid and ensure Darwin writes a very different book? And who stopped him writing it in the first place? "The hard science is as gripping as the fiction." - "The Times." "Entertaining and illuminating." - "New Scientist."
About the Author
Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld series, is one of the most successful authors in Britain today. Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick and won the Royal Society's 1995 Michael Faraday Medal for outstanding contributions to the public understanding of science. Jack Cohen is a biologist and science writer and long-time collaborator of Ian Stewart's.
Prizes
The latest instalment in the Sunday Times-bestselling Science of Discworld series.
Reviews
" A profound and clear explanation of Darwin' s theories and their modern updating . . . It is exhilarating to feel yourself immersed in such well-expressed and up-to-date debates . . . " - "New Scientist" " The hard science is as gripping as the fiction." - "The Times" " Entertaining and illuminating." - "New Scientist"
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Terry Pratchett cannot go wrong. Even his weaker works are better than many others best. Was difficult to get this mini series for a good price, but used a voucher and I'm happy. Many fans don't realise this series is really a bit of a story - it is often confused with the other maps, cookbooks, biographies, compendiums, etc.
A step away from the usual Discworld novels, this book (and the others in the science of the discworld series) do not read as smoothly or as easily as its more light-hearted counterparts. It is instead a curious blend of sciencey type stuff, with a story continued in every alternating chapter. If you are after the usual discworld stuff, maybe not for you. If you don't like the science stuff, you might still like the book - but you may want to skip every second chapter and just read the story.
Every second chapter in this interesting tome is filled with Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's ideas about Science in Roundworld. Filled with Terry Pratchett's nutty characters, Roundworld's (our world) troubles and impending death, and a famous scientist who's gone religious, Charles Darwin, this hilarios time-travelling book is worth a read.
Honestly it is a bit difficult to see how this could become a best seller unless customers bought it on the "Discworld" and "Terry Pratchett" names alone because this just doesn't have the same discworld feel to it - instead some discworld characters are simply used to go on "humorously" about "science" -not recommended
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