The Science of Discworld
A Novel
Science of Discworld Series: Book #1
- By: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens & Stephen Briggs
- Length: 13 hours 47 minutes
Description
Not just another science audiobook and not just another Discworld novella, The Science of Discworld is a creative, mind-bending mash-up of fiction and fact, that offers a wizard’s-eye view of our world that will forever change how you look at the universe.
Can Unseen University’s eccentric wizards and orangutan Librarian possibly shed any useful light on hard, rational Earthly science?
In the course of an exciting experiment, the wizards of Discworld have accidentally created a new universe. Within this universe is a planet that they name Roundworld. Roundworld is, of course, Earth, and the universe is our own. As the wizards watch their creation grow, Terry Pratchett and acclaimed science writers Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen use Discworld to examine science from the outside. Interwoven with the Pratchett’s original story are entertaining, enlightening chapters which explain key scientific principles such as the Big Bang theory and the evolution of life on earth, as well as great moments in the history of science.
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Science of Discworld Series Series

The Science of Discworld
By: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen
Length: 13 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Not just another science audiobook and not just another Discworld novella, The Science of Discworld is a creative, mind-bending mash-up of fiction and fact, that offers a wizard’s-eye view of our world that will forever change how you look at the universe.
Can Unseen University’s eccentric wizards and orangutan Librarian possibly shed any useful... Read more »

Judgment Day
By: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen
Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens & Stephen Briggs
Length: 12 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
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 Judgement 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,... Read more »
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Darwin's Watch
By: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen
Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens & Stephen Briggs
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The wizards discover to their cost that it’s no easy task to change history.
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 that lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space... Read more »

The Globe
By: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen
Narrated by: Jack Cohen
Length: 12 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Roundworld, aka Earth, is under siege. Are three wizards and an orangutan Librarian enough to thwart the Elvish threat?
When the wizards of Unseen University first created Roundworld, they were so concerned with discovering the rules of this new universe that they overlooked its inhabitants entirely. Now, they have noticed humanity. And humanity... Read more »