The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch - Softcover

Pratchett, Terry; Cohen, Jack; Stewart, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0091898242 ISBN 13: 9780091898243

Publisher: Ebury Press, 2006

Synopsis

The wizards discover to their cost that it’s no easy task to change history.

Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures that lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator — they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves, who attempted to divert humanity onto a different time track. But now it’s all gone wrong — Victorian England has stagnated and the pace of progress would embarrass a limping snail. Unless something drastic is done, there won’t be time for anyone to invent space flight, and the human race will be turned into ice-pops.

Why, though, did history come adrift? Was it Sir Arthur Nightingale’s dismal book about natural selection? Or was it the devastating response by an obscure country vicar called Charles Darwin whose bestselling Theology of Species made it impossible to refute the divine design of living creatures?

Can the God of Evolution come to humanity’s aid and ensure Darwin writes a very different book? And who stopped him writing it in the first place?
From the Hardcover edition.

About this title

About the Author:

TERRY PRATCHETT is one of the most popular authors writing today. He lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'. He was appointed OBE in 1998. He is the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series and his trilogy for young readers, The Bromeliad, is scheduled to be adapted into a spectacular animated movie. His first Discworld novel for children, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal.
From the Compact Disc edition.

Review:

“A profound and clear explanation of Darwin’s theories and their modern updating . . . It is exhilarating to feel yourself immersed in such well-expressed and up-to-date debates . . . ”
–New Scientist

“The hard science is as gripping as the fiction.”
–The Times

“Entertaining and illuminating.”
–New Scientist

About this edition

• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0091898242
• ISBN 13: 9780091898243
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 384