The Science of Discworld IV is released today in paperback!Look out for it on our website! The purpose of this book is both to entertain and educate. In having fictional sections in which observers from a very different world with a very different set of rules look with confused eyes upon the Earth (“Roundworld”), the authors are able to expand upon things we take for granted, such as planets being round and stars being far away, in a manner which is free of a line of thinking which states “But that’s obvious“.
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AND THE WINNER IS…
AND THE WINNER IS… HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. PER STALBY of SWEDEN!! Your signed Snuff proof will be posted later today. Commiserations to everyone else, but at least you still have a signed copy to look forward to!
