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Darwin's Watch

Darwin's Watch

the Science of Discworld III
FantasyScience & Nature
Pages
346
Published
2005
Language
English

Synopsis

Charles Darwin, in Roundworld, is hesitating. History has taken a wrong turn — he is writing a book on theology instead of evolution, and the natural selection that should have happened is in danger of not happening at all. The wizards of Unseen University must travel back into Roundworld's past and find a way to get Darwin back on track without changing history too visibly. The third Science of Discworld book, examining the history of evolutionary theory.

Prose complexity
6/10

Vibe

FunnyInformativeThought-ProvokingIntellectual
Portal FantasyTime Loop

Genres

Fantasy Science & Nature Science Alternate History

Authors

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Ian Stewart

Ian Nicholas Stewart FRS CMath FIMA is a British mathematician and a popular-science and science-fiction writer. He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, England. --Wikipedia

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Jack Cohen

Jack Cohen, FRSB was a British reproductive biologist also known for his science books and involvement with science fiction. --Wikipedia

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Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) was an English author best known for the Discworld series, a sequence of forty-one comic fantasy novels set on a flat world carried through space on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle. Across four decades, the Discworld grew from a parody of sword-and-sorcery fantasy into one of the most sustained works of social satire in English literature, examining politics, religion, science, gender, race, capitalism, and the nature of stories themselves. Pra...

Frequently asked questions

  • What is Darwin's Watch about?

    Darwin's Watch (The Science of Discworld III) uses Charles Darwin as the focal point of both its fiction and science sections. The narrative explores what might have happened if Darwin had not written On the Origin of Species, while the science chapters examine evolutionary theory.

  • Who wrote Darwin's Watch?

    Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen. Published in 2005 by Ebury Press.

  • Do I need to read the previous Science of Discworld books first?

    Recommended. The Roundworld concept and the wizard characters are established in book one, and each subsequent volume builds on it.