Judgment Day: The Science of Discworld IV

by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen Narrated by Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs

Overview

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 Judgment 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.

Marjorie Dawe is a librarian, and takes her job -- and indeed the truth of words -- very seriously. She doesn't know it, but her world and ours -- Roundworld -- is in big trouble. On Discworld, a colossal row is brewing. The Wizards of the Unseen University feel responsible for Roundworld (as one would for a pet gerbil). After all, they brought it into existence by bungling an experiment in Quantum ThaumoDynamics. 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. 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.

As 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.

Editorial Reviews

SEPTEMBER 2016 - AudioFile

Longtime Discworld compatriots and narrators Michael Fenton Stevens and Stephen Briggs once again make complicated science accessible and fun in this fourth installment of the SCIENCE OF DISCWORLD series. Here reproductive biologist Jack Cohen, mathematician Ian Stewart, and satirist and much deeper thinker than you’d think Terry Pratchett take on the beginnings of the cosmos, how the world might end, and the building blocks of life (RNA and DNA). Plus, a number of wizards, librarians, and even an orangutan make appearances. But 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. B.P. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine

From the Publisher

"Stewart, Cohen and Pratchett set out to puzzle us and make us think differently.... This is exhilarating." —A. S. Byatt, New Statesman

“Fascinating and entertaining. . . . It’s baffling why this appealingly distinctive offshoot of the wildly popular Discworld yarns took so long to cross the Atlantic.” —Kirkus Reviews

SEPTEMBER 2016 - AudioFile

Longtime Discworld compatriots and narrators Michael Fenton Stevens and Stephen Briggs once again make complicated science accessible and fun in this fourth installment of the SCIENCE OF DISCWORLD series. Here reproductive biologist Jack Cohen, mathematician Ian Stewart, and satirist and much deeper thinker than you’d think Terry Pratchett take on the beginnings of the cosmos, how the world might end, and the building blocks of life (RNA and DNA). Plus, a number of wizards, librarians, and even an orangutan make appearances. But 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. B.P. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169381856
Publisher:	Penguin Random House
Publication date:	12/22/2015
Series:	Science of Discworld Series , #4
Edition description:	Unabridged

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