Science of Discworld

[Marky Lazer]

Are they worth buying?

 

[Hilarious Joke]

I've only read the first one, but I found it fairly interesting. It is set up so that there are chapters on the wizards creating, virtually, Earth and watching it evolve, interspersed with chapters on the science of our world. I'm not really into science, but some of those chapters were really neat.

 

[Trebuchet]

I love them. (I have all three.)

Good science* explanations combined with good story, and neither overwhelming the other. And as I think the books themselves say, they're not a 'how future science might actually be a bit like this', it's more 'the science that Terry has read and included in the books and you probably didn't notice' type stuff.















*err, as far as I can tell, it's good anyway. I mean, I can understand it, and it seems pretty complicated stuff at first glance. On the other hand, damn it Jim, I'm an archaeologist, not a sciencetist. And there are three of them, so presumably quite a lot of people though the first two were worth buying.