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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 who 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 spaceflight 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? Either way, it's no easy task to change history, as the wizards discover to their cost. 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?

 Biological Sciences Evolution Evolution & Genetics Fantasy Science Fiction Funny Natural History Mathematics Magic Wizardry Magic Users

Critic reviews

It is exhilarating to feel yourself immersed in such well-expressed and up-to-date debates...
The hard science is as gripping as the fiction
Entertaining and illuminating
Fantastic... this is some of the best science writing around today, intelligent and witty, creative and playful... if only science could be taught like this in school, many of us would have paid more attention
All stars
Most relevant
You have to concentrate!! It gets very complicated at times and uses some big words!

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An absolutely wonderful book (or series of books) about many of the more complex notions in science - and a thorough investigation on how to approach them.

Having first read (listened to) the series while doing my PhD I want to aknowledge that the insights gained from these books influenced and helped me in my thesis writing. I can therefore heartily recomend the books to anyone wanting to get a better grasp on both general scientific practice, as well as particular concepts.

It might not always handle the easiest subjects but fortunately it is well written, humorous and therefore well worth re-visiting. Personally I have listened to all four books about five times... and will most likely do so at least once more.

Great description of science

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loved the story and the narrator was also very good, learned about science as well as had a good laugh

discworld

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Loved the way they linked the chapters and the story which the lore of disk world

Good blend of voices between chapters

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The world is a wonderful place and books like these make us appreciate it more deeply. I feel so enriched.

Can't stop reading

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