Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Review: The Science of Discworld: A Novel
The Science of Discworld: A Novel by Terry Pratchett
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Various "Science of..." books for fantasy settings strive to explain impossible technology by interpreting the possible, this one does none of that. Pratchett alternates basic science of evolution, ecosystems (rainforests are basically oxygen neutral when you consider rotting vegetation), cosmogony, space travel, and more. The "novel" part is a story of wizards of Unseen University building our world in a Discworld lab and watching life and geology unfold. The story goes to possible post-Earth plans for the human race. Apparently, there is a Part 2 and I would like to read that, too.
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