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Download the discworld series
Download the discworld series








download the discworld series

In December 2007, Pratchett announced that he had been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2010. In 2001, he won the annual Carnegie Medal for The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, the first Discworld book marketed for children. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998 and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. With more than 100 million books sold worldwide in 43 languages, Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. The final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published in August 2015, five months after his death. The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels. Sir Terence David John Pratchett OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English humorist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. Yet, paradoxically, we see how the richness of a universe based on rules has led to a complex world and at least one species that tried to get a grip on what was going on.Recorded May 2008 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Bookclub We discover how puny and insignificant individual lives are against a cosmic backdrop of creation and disaster. Guided (if that's the word) by the wizards, we follow its story from the primal singularity of the Big Bang to the Internet and beyond. Roundworld is, of course, our own universe. When a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe on their hands: Roundworld, where neither magic nor common sense seems to stand a chance against logic. The Science of Discworld uses the magic of Discworld to illuminate the scientific rules that govern our world. The appeal of Discworld is that it mostly makes sense, in a way that particle physics does not. Science is our way of finding out what those rules are. Our world seems different - it runs on rules, often rather strange ones. The world is flat and million-to-one chances happen nine times out of ten. In the 'fantasy' universe of the phenomenally bestselling Discworld series, everything runs on magic and common sense.










Download the discworld series