The Globe (2002)
The Globe is a 2002 discworld (imaginary place) book written by Terry Pratchett and Ian Stewart.
The wizards of Unseen University built a whole universe by accident, called it Roundworld, and only now notice it has people. This second Science of Discworld book splices comic wizard interludes by Terry Pratchett with real essays from mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen. While the wizards jostle with meddling elves for influence over human history, the science chapters trace how minds, language, art, and culture actually emerged. Their running argument is that we are the storytelling ape, shaped as much by the tales we tell as by evolution. Popular science with a plot wrapped around it.
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What is The Globe about?
The wizards of Unseen University built a whole universe by accident, called it Roundworld, and only now notice it has people. This second Science of Discworld book splices comic wizard interludes by Terry Pratchett with real essays from mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen. While the wizards jostle with meddling elves for influence over human history, the science chapters trace how minds, language, art, and culture actually emerged. Their running argument is that we are the storytelling ape, shaped as much by the tales we tell as by evolution. Popular science with a plot wrapped around it.
When was The Globe published?
The Globe was published in 2002.
Who made The Globe?
The Globe was written by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen.
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A few thoughts on The Globe
The braid of grand science and good storytelling points straight at Cosmos, whose sweeping narration turns physics and deep time into an adventure. For more of Terry Pratchett's own voice bending big ideas toward comedy, Good Omens keeps the same playful, humane wit.
Fiction about a creation that grows beyond what its makers intended
The Globe follows Unseen University's wizards discovering, almost by accident, that the universe they built has people living in it, then splices their bafflement with real science writing on how those people came to think and tell stories. Each of these follows a similar shock, something built for one purpose, a monster, a species, a set of angels and demons, that quietly develops a will of its own.