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The Science of Discworld IV - Judgement Day (Paperback)
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The Science of Discworld IV - Judgement Day (Paperback)
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List price R518
Loot Price R419
Discovery Miles 4 190
You Save R99 (19%)
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The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series, and this time
around dealing with THE REALLY BIG QUESTIONS, Terry Pratchett's
brilliant new Discworld story Judgement Day is annotated with very
big footnotes (the interleaving chapters) by mathematician Ian
Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen, to bring you a mind-mangling
combination of fiction, cutting-edge science and philosophy.
Marjorie Daw is a librarian, and takes her job - and indeed the
truth of words - very seriously. She doesn't know it, but her world
and ours - Roundworld - is in big trouble. On Discworld, a colossal
row is brewing... The Wizards of Unseen University feel responsible
for Roundworld (as one would for a pet gerbil). After all, they
brought it into existence by bungling an experiment in Quantum
ThaumoDynamics. But legal action is being brought against them by
Omnians, who say that the Wizards' god-like actions make a mockery
of their noble religion. As the finest legal brains in Discworld (a
zombie and a priest) gird their loins to do battle - and when the
Great Big Thing in the High Energy Magic Laboratory is switched on
- Marjorie Daw finds herself thrown across the multiverse and right
in the middle of the whole explosive affair. As God, the Universe
and, frankly, Everything Else is investigated by the trio, you can
expect world-bearing elephants, quantum gravity in the
Escher-verse, evolutionary design, eternal inflation, dark matter,
disbelief systems - and an in-depth study of how to invent a better
mousetrap.
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