Terry Pratchett - The Globe: The Science of Discworld II: A Novel

Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen

Terry Pratchett is the acclaimed creator of the bestselling Discworld series, the latest of which is Raising Steam. He has been appointed OBE and a Knight Bachelor in recognition of his services to literature.

Ian Stewart is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick, and the author of numerous books on math and popular science, as well as science fiction novels coauthored with Jack Cohen.

Jack Cohen is a professor of biology and honorary professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick, and has coauthored several books with Ian Stewart.

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TERRY PRATCHETT

Books about Discworld

THE SCIENCE OF DISCWORLD

THE SCIENCE OF DISCWORLD II: THE GLOBE

THE SCIENCE OF DISCWORLD III: DARWINS WATCH

THE SCIENCE OF DISCWORLD IV: JUDGEMENT DAY

(with Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen)

TURTLE RECALL: THE NEW DISCWORLD COMPANION SO FAR

(with Stephen Briggs)

NANNY OGGS COOKBOOK

(with Stephen Briggs, Tina Hannan, and Paul Kidby)

THE PRATCHETT PORTFOLIO

(with Paul Kidby)

THE DISCWORLD ALMANAK

(with Bernard Pearson)

THE UNSEEN UNIVERSITY CUT-OUT BOOK

(with Alan Batley and Bernard Pearson)

WHERES MY COW?

(illustrated by Melvyn Grant)

THE ART OF DISCWORLD

(with Paul Kidby)

THE WIT AND WISDOM OF DISCWORLD

(compiled by Stephen Briggs)

THE FOLKLORE OF DISCWORLD

(with Jacqueline Simpson)

THE WORLD OF POO

(with the Discworld Emporium)

THE COMPLEAT ANKH-MORPORK

THE STREETS OF ANKH-MORPORK

(with Stephen Briggs; painted by Stephen Player)

THE DISCWORLD MAPP

(with Stephen Briggs; painted by Stephen Player)

A TOURIST GUIDE TO LANCREA DISCWORLD MAPP

(with Stephen Briggs; illustrated by Paul Kidby)

DEATHS DOMAIN

(with Paul Kidby)

The Discworld Series

THE COLOR OF MAGIC

THE LIGHT FANTASTIC

EQUAL RITES

MORT

SORCERY

WYRD SISTERS

PYRAMIDS

GUARDS! GUARDS!

ERIC

(illustrated by Josh Kirby)

MOVING PICTURES

REAPER MAN

WITCHES ABROAD

SMALL GODS

LORDS AND LADIES

MEN AT ARMS

SOUL MUSIC

MASKERADE

FEET OF CLAY

HOGFEATHER

JINGO

THE LAST CONTINENT

CARPE JUGULUM

THE FIFTH ELEPHANT

THE TRUTH

THIEF OF TIME

THE LAST HERO

(illustrated by Paul Kidby)

THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS

(for young adults)

NIGHT WATCH

THE WEE FREE MEN

(for young adults)

MONSTROUS REGIMENT

A HAT FULL OF SKY

(for young adults)

GOING POSTAL

THUD

WINTERSMITH

(for young adults)

MAKING MONEY

UNSEEN ACADEMICALS

I SHALL WEAR MIDNIGHT

(for young adults)

SNUFF

RAISING STEAM

Shorter Writing

A BLINK OF THE SCREEN

A SLIP OF THE KEYBOARD

Non-Discworld Books

THE DARK SIDE OF THE SUN

STRATA

THE UNADULTERATED CAT

(illustrated by Gray Jolliffe)

GOOD OMENS

(with Neil Gaiman)

THE LONG EARTH

(with Stephen Baxter)

THE LONG WAR

(with Stephen Baxter)

THE LONG MARS

(with Stephen Baxter)

Non-Discworld Novels for Younger Readers

THE CARPET PEOPLE

TRUCKERS

DIGGERS

WINGS

ONLY YOU CAN SAVE MANKIND

JOHNNY AND THE DEAD

JOHNNY AND THE BOMB

NATION

DODGER

DODGERS GUIDE TO LONDON

IAN STEWART

CONCEPTS OF MODERN MATHEMATICS

GAME, SET, AND MATH

THE PROBLEMS OF MATHEMATICS

DOES GOD PLAY DICE?

ANOTHER FINE MATH YOUVE GOT ME INTO

FEARFUL SYMMETRY

NATURES NUMBERS

FROM HERE TO INFINITY

THE MAGICAL MAZE

LIFES OTHER SECRET

FLATTERLAND

WHAT SHAPE IS A SNOWFLAKE?

THE ANNOTATED FLATLAND

JACK COHEN

LIVING EMBRYOS

REPRODUCTION

PARENTS MAKING PARENTS

SPERMS, ANTIBODIES AND INFERTILITY

THE PRIVILEGED APE

STOP WORKING AND START THINKING

(with Graham Medley)

IAN STEWART AND JACK COHEN

THE COLLAPSE OF CHAOS

FIGMENTS OF REALITY

WHEELERS

EVOLVING THE ALIEN

FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, JANUARY 2015

Copyright 2002 by Terry Pratchett, Lyn Pratchett, Joat Enterprises, and Jack Cohen

Illustrations 2002 by Paul Kidby

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House LLC, New York, a Penguin Random House company. Originally published in Britain by Ebury Press, an imprint of Ebury Publishing, a division of the Random House Group Ltd., London, in 2002.

Anchor Book and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC. Terry Pratchett and Discworld are registered trademarks.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Pratchett, Terry.

[Science of Discworld II]

The globe : the science of Discworld II / by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen. First Anchor Books edition.

pages cm

1. Discworld (Imaginary place)Fiction. 2. ScientistsFiction. 3. WizardsFiction. 4. ElvesFiction. I. Stewart, Ian, 1945 II. Cohen, Jack. III. Stewart, Ian, 1945 IV. Cohen, Jack. V. Title.

PR6066.R34S29 2015 823.914dc23 2014021231

Anchor Books Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8041-6896-0

eBook ISBN: 978-0-8041-6897-7

Cover illustration by Justin Gerard

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You spotted snakes with double tongue,

Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;

Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong,

Come not near our fairy Queen.

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I wasthere is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had, but man is but a patchd fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, mans hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.

This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT S DREAM

Im nae listenin to them! Theyve got warts!

ARTHUR J. NIGHTINGALE

THE SHORT COMEDY OF MACBETH

A POLOGY : this book is a true account of events in the life of William Shakespeare, but only for a given value of true.

Warning: May Contain Nuts