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The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day - Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day
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A brilliant new Discworld story from Terry Pratchett. 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... show more
A brilliant new Discworld story from Terry Pratchett. 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 Dawe 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 the 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 Dawe 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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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780091949792 (0091949793)
ASIN: 91949793
Publisher: Ebury Press
Pages no: 342
Edition language: English
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5.0 Terry Pratchett Science of Discworld IV as gift
I bought this hard cover book as a birthday gift of a friend. So I browse through it and found interesting conversations that based on the condition of Discworld, what the world would be, and how it would compare to the reality of this world. It is hard to be disappointed with a Terry Pratchett bo...
Vilja Reads
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3.0 Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day
If you've read the first three Sciences of Discworld, you know the drill: A short Discworld story is interspersed by long discourses on somewhat related science. I've enjoyed all of them so far, though perhaps Darwin's Watch most of all. This time around, a little fatigue has set in. That, and Richa...
The English Student
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1.5 The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day - Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen
I don't even know where to start with this. The Science of Discworld is a series within Terry Pratchett's Discworld series that interleaves a short story about the wizards of Unseen University with long chapters of science related to the concepts of the story. Usually, I love the Science of Discworl...
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