The Science of Discworld: A Novel

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Pros

Terry pratchett teams up with two scientists - a biologist and mathematician to produce a mixture of hard fact, and hilarious fiction, in another discworld novel. Even if you've never heard of terry pratchet or discworld, this book is a delight.

The science of discworld is a magnificent attempt at explaining what science does in this world. With science we explore the natural world without resorting to supernatural explanations. The odd numbered chapters are the actual story.

Half of this book is a lighthearted romp with rincewind and the other wizards at uu as they explore the unmagical world they've created. The other half is a rigorous look at the physics that govern our universe. This is the first of a two-part series ... Read More

To carry it off with the panache achieved by the three authors, is a supreme achievement. The hard science appears to be both solid and witty, and a sly way to sneak some real knowledge into the portion of my family that appears to have gotten only th... Read More

While we might dispute whether we've progressed argue the authors, there's no question that once the process started, humans changed rapidly resulting in what we see around us today. Does the extremely difficult job of telling the reader what we think... Read More

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Discworld by terry pratchett is a very predictable, uninteresting story. It is interrupted by long, arduous lectures about different topics.

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And they do it clearly and robustly and with no patience for creationist, "intelligent design" nonsense.

To carry it off with the panache achieved by the three authors, is a supreme achievement.

The point is that most of the atoms from which you are made must have come into being inside a star.

If you do skim his books you miss the details, puns and non sequiturs that littler virtually every paragraph.

Competitiveness

They experiment with creating matter and stars and whatnot, and eventually end up with roundworld, which bears considerable res... Read More

They seek to introduce the youngish reader to principles of the sciences and similar by comparing them with pratchetts diskworld.

I think i was expecting, oh, i don't know, maybe how roundworld laws of physics compare to their discworld equivalents, if that... Read More

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This product had a total of 1,186 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 20 2024.