The fantastic first book in the Sunday Times bestselling Science of Discworld series
Terry Pratchett (Author)
Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling
Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was
published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty
bestselling books which have sold over 100 million copies
worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and
screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the
Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood for services to
literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his
greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.
www.terrypratchettbooks.com
Ian Stewart (Author)
Professor Ian Stewart is the author of many popular science books.
He is the mathematics consultant for New Scientist and a Professor
of Mathematics at the University of Warwick. He was awarded the
Michael Faraday Prize for furthering the public understanding of
science, and in 2001 became a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Jack Cohen (Author)
Dr Jack Cohen is an internationally-known reproductive biologist,
and lives in Newent, Gloucestershire. Jack has a laboratory in his
kitchen, helps couples get pregnant by referring them to
colleagues, invents biologically realistic aliens for science
fiction writers and, in his spare time, throws boomerangs. Jack,
who has more letters to his name than can be repeated here, writes,
lectures, talks and campaigns to promote public awareness of
science, particularly biology. He is mostly retired.
The hard science is as gripping as the fiction
*The Times*
An irreverent but genuinely profound romp through the history and
philosophy of science, cunningly disguised as a collection of funny
stories about wizards and mobile luggage. More that that, it offers
a fresh look at the place that humans hold in the history of the
planet
*Frontiers*
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