The fantastic first book in the Sunday Times bestselling Science of
Discworld series 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.
Terry Pratchett is the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling
Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was
published in 1983. Raising Steam is his fortieth Discworld novel.
His books have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he is
the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as
well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature.
After falling out with his keyboard he now talks to his computer.
Occasionally, these days, it answers back. www.terrypratchett.co.uk
@terryandrob Professor Ian Stewart is the author of many popular
science books. He is the mathematics consultant for New Scientist
and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick. He was
awarded the Michael Faraday Prize for furthering the public
understanding of science, and in 2001 became a Fellow of the Royal
Society. Dr Jack Cohen is an internationally-known reproductive
biologist, and lives in Newent, Gloucestershire. Jack has a
laboratory in his kitchen, helps couples get pregnant by referring
them to colleagues, invents biologically realistic aliens for
science fiction writers and, in his spare time, throws boomerangs.
Jack, who has more letters to his name than can be repeated here,
writes, lectures, talks and campaigns to promote public awareness
of science, particularly biology. He is mostly retired.
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