The book is about the city of Ankh Morpork and its Watch. Since there are several viable starting points, after some consideration and research, I decided to start with The City Watch collection, as it is lauded as one of the funniest and best books in the collection. After hearing about his passing, however, I knew I just had to do it. Ive been holding off on starting Terry Pratchetts works for years because the collection is so massive and apparently you dont start with book 1. So that people can laugh, sigh, and say that clever bastard and go on with their day without thinking of drowning themselves in a bottle of gin. So you do it the only way that will get people to listen: you disguise it as a joke. But how else do you point out to people all that is wrong with humanity? No one wants to hear whats wrong with humanity unless they want to become a deeply depressed, chain smoking, alcoholics. I dont think words like clever, witty, cynical, hilarious, dark, wise, and gut-busting-funny really do justice to his writing, but its kind of all of those combined and you get this amazing writing that is both funny, clever, and underneath it all incredibly dark and somewhat sobering. He has authored or coauthored many books, in recent years with Ian Stewart and Terry Pratchett.I hope Death is taking good care of Sir Terry Pratchett, because when he comes to take me to the other side, Id like to kiss Sir Terry on the mouth. Jack Cohen is a British biologist and science fiction consultant. He won the Royal Society’s 1995 Michael Faraday Medal for outstanding contributions to the public understanding of science. He is best known for his popular science writing on mathematical themes. Ian Stewart is an Emeritus Professor and Digital Media Fellow in the Mathematics Department at Warwick University, England, with special responsibility for public awareness of mathematics and science. Pratchett was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to literature in 1998 and was knighted in 2009. In 2001 he won the Carnegie Medal for his children’s novel The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents. He was the United Kingdom’s bestselling author of the 1990s and has sold more than 55 million books worldwide. His first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971, and after publishing his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983, he wrote two books a year on average. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series. Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) was an English novelist known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. “Longtime Discworld compatriots and narrators Michael Fenton Stevens and Stephen Briggs once again make complicated science accessible and fun…In the end, it’s the sounds of absolute glee and discovery, along with charming English accents, that Stevens and Briggs bring to the proceedings that make these books irresistible.” 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.Īs 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. 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. After all, they brought it into existence by bungling an experiment in Quantum ThaumoDynamics. The Wizards of the Unseen University feel responsible for Roundworld (as one would for a pet gerbil). She doesn't know it, but her world and ours - Roundworld - is in big trouble. Marjorie Dawe is a librarian, and takes her job - and indeed the truth of words - very seriously. 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.
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