Showing The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch by Terry Pratchett

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-04-01 Pages: 352 Language: English Publisher: Ebury Press The latest instalment in the Sunday Times-bestselling Science of Discworld series.Roundworld is in trouble again. and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place. the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator - they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves. who attempted to divert humanity onto a different time track. But now its all gone wrong - Victorian England has stagnated and the pace of progress would embarrass a limping snail. Unless something drastic is done. there wont be time for anyone to invent spaceflight and the human race will be turned into ice-pops.Why. though. did history come adrift Was it Sir Arthur Nightinga...