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| Title | : | Darwin's Watch (Science of Discworld #3) |
| Author | : | Terry Pratchett |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 344 pages |
| Published | : | August 3rd 2006 by Ebury Press (first published 2005) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction |
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Paperback | Pages: 344 pages Rating: 3.94 | 4148 Users | 121 Reviews
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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?
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| Original Title: | Darwin's Watch: The Science of Discworld III |
| ISBN: | 0091898242 (ISBN13: 9780091898243) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Science of Discworld #3, Discworld |
| Characters: | Charles Darwin, Rincewind, Ridcully |
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I love the Science of Discworld books. It makes me feel like I'm also learning something while reading my favourite fantasy stories. Great writing, the science bits are sometimes a bit long and the Pratchett bits too short though. :-)Fun. Good explanations of some scientific ideas and history thereto. But an odd fetishization of post-Victorian England (in the parts written by Ian and Jack) and it's ability to progress compared to other places, but a profound lack of discussion of state-funded R&D that has caused so much innovation (which is odd because it refers to things/projects that were created this way or that will need to be created with the full force of a state).
For some reason I don't like reading books in order. Hence, this is the first of the 'Science of Discworld' sub-series that I've flipped through, and I'm going to find the other two books now. If this is your first time tackling Discworld or Terry Pratchett, this is not the book to go with. Prior knowledge of the wizards of Discworld (especially Rincewind and Ridcully) is preferable.It was surprisingly a fun read. I was a bit worried initially at the ever-shortening story chapters and
All of the books in this series can be very heavy in the science chapters, with some of the discussion being very high level. Certainly not pitched at children or those who have not studied science at higher levels.But even with that, the Discworld chapters are well worth it by themselves if you enjoy the wizards mucking about with the universe and dropping little pieces of paper whilst doing it.
Hmm, not so impressed. The Discworld story was just so-and-so and the intermittent chapters lacked the cohesion that was present in the previous 2 Sciences.At the end, I had the feeling that Jack and Ian started ranting. Pity...
The third installment of a fascinating series, where the wizards (in this occasion) ensure that Darwin successfully publishes the "origin of species", instead of the "theology of species". The book delves into evolution - both of humanity and of ideas, and discusses the important concepts of the multiplicity of ideas, the non-linear march of history, and the necessity of understanding complex narratives without resorting to a simple linear chain of cause and effect to truly understand the
What do you get when you mix wizards, Hex, and Roundworld? You get the next installment in The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett and company. In Darwin's Watch, when Charles Darwin writes The Theology of Species rather than The Origins of Species, the future of humanity escaping the snowball earth future disappears. The Wizards of the Unseen University spring into action to restore humanity's future, fighting unseen forces between chapters on time travel, the vagaries of biological
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