The Science of Discworld 1999
By Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
- Fantasy fiction, Cosmology, Discworld (Imaginary place), Fiction
Contains a story by Terry Pratchett, around which Stewart and Cohen write about the Discworld.
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Warm, cool, epic and plot-driven.
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Ebury Press, L'Atalante, Talpress
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- cze, English, French, German
- ISBN
- 9780091874773
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Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE more commonly known as Terry Pratchett, was an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best-known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels. Pratchett's first novel, *The Carpet People*, was published in 1971, and since his first Discworld novel (*The Colour of Magic*) was published in 1983, he has written two books a year on average. Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s, and as of December 2007 had sold more than 55 million books worldwide, with translations made into 36 languages. He is currently the second most-read writer in the UK, and seventh most-read no
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