What is Judgement Day about?

Judgement Day (The Science of Discworld IV) tackles the relationship between religion and science, framed through a Discworld legal battle over the creation of Roundworld. The science chapters address the history and philosophy of the creation/evolution debate.

Is this the last Science of Discworld book?

Yes. Judgement Day (2013) is the fourth and final Science of Discworld book. It was published by Ebury Press.

Who wrote Judgement Day?

Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen. At the time of writing Pratchett was already living with posterior cortical atrophy.

Marjorie Daw is a new character introduced in Judgement Day — a librarian fighting to save her library from closure. She was later used in the Discworld series itself in The Shepherd's Crown.

Judgement Day

Fantasy Science & Nature

Pages: 400
Published: 2013
Language: English

Marjorie Daw is a librarian defending her public library from a local council seeking to tear it down. Meanwhile, in Roundworld, the God of Evolution faces the God of Creation in a Pratchett-esque theological lawsuit over who really made the universe. The alternating fiction and science chapters in the fourth and final Science of Discworld book tackle the relationship between religion and science — why they conflict, where they don't, and what each is actually for.

Prose complexity: 6/10

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Portal Fantasy

Authors

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

Jack Cohen

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

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 Judgement Day about?
Judgement Day (The Science of Discworld IV) tackles the relationship between religion and science, framed through a Discworld legal battle over the creation of Roundworld. The science chapters address the history and philosophy of the creation/evolution debate.
Is this the last Science of Discworld book?
Yes. Judgement Day (2013) is the fourth and final Science of Discworld book. It was published by Ebury Press.
Who wrote Judgement Day?
Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen. At the time of writing Pratchett was already living with posterior cortical atrophy.
Who is Marjorie Daw?
Marjorie Daw is a new character introduced in Judgement Day — a librarian fighting to save her library from closure. She was later used in the Discworld series itself in The Shepherd's Crown.