![]() PRATCHETT WROTE THE FIRST FOUR INSTALLMENTS WHILE WORKING AS A SPOKESMAN FOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. Here are 10 things they won’t teach you at Unseen University. Set on a magical, disc-shaped world supported by four elephants who in turn ride atop a gigantic turtle, these masterworks of comic fantasy have collectively sold more than 80 million copies worldwide. His debut novel, The Carpet People-a slightly-altered version of a fantasy serial Pratchett wrote while working at his local paper, the Bucks Free Press-was published in 1971, followed by the bestselling Discworld series. Pratchett, who was born in Buckinghamshire on April 28, 1948, wrote or co-wrote more than 70 books during his lifetime. Just two writers had five works that cracked the top 100: Charles Dickens and the late Sir Terry Pratchett. Interwoven with the Pratchett’s original story are entertaining, enlightening chapters which explain key scientific principles such as the Big Bang theory and the evolution of life on earth, as well as great moments in the history of science.In 2003, the BBC asked 140,000 Britons to come up with the nation’s top 100 novels. As the wizards watch their creation grow, Terry Pratchett and acclaimed science writers Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen use Discworld to examine science from the outside. ![]() Roundworld is, of course, Earth, and the universe is our own. Within this universe is a planet that they name Roundworld. In the course of an exciting experiment, the wizards of Discworld have accidentally created a new universe. ![]() Not just another science audiobook and not just another Discworld novella, The Science of Discworld is a creative, mind-bending mash-up of fiction and fact, that offers a wizard’s-eye view of our world that will forever change how you look at the universe.Ĭan Unseen University’s eccentric wizards and orangutan Librarian possibly shed any useful light on hard, rational Earthly science? ![]()
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