The fantastic first book in the Sunday Times bestselling Science of Discworld series When a
wizardly experiment goes adrift the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket
universe on their hands: Roundworld where neither magic nor common sense seems to stand a
chance against logic. The Universe of course is our own. And Roundworld is Earth. As the
wizards watch their accidental creation grow we follow the story of our universe from the
primal singularity of the Big Bang to the internet and beyond. Through this original Terry
Pratchett story (with intervening chapters from Cohen and Stewart) we discover how puny and
insignificant individual lives are against a cosmic backdrop of creation and disaster. Yet
paradoxically we see how the richness of a universe based on rules has led to a complex world
and at least one species that tried to get a grip of what was going on. Terry Pratchett is
the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series the first of which The
Colour of Magic was published in 1983. Raising Steam is his fortieth Discworld novel. His
books have been widely adapted for stage and screen and he is the winner of multiple prizes
including the Carnegie Medal as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature.
After falling out with his keyboard he now talks to his computer. Occasionally these days it
answers back. www.terrypratchett.co.uk @terryandrob 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. 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.
