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The Globe

The Globe

the science of Discworld II
FantasyScience & Nature
Pages
368
Published
2002
Language
English

Synopsis

The wizards of Unseen University are back in Roundworld — this time tangling with the evolution of human consciousness, storytelling, and the strange phenomenon of narrative as a survival tool. The alternating fiction and science chapters examine how human beings became the only species that tells itself stories, and why that matters. The second Science of Discworld book by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen.

Prose complexity
6/10

Vibe

FunnyInformativeThought-ProvokingIntellectual
Portal FantasyFish Out of Water

Genres

Fantasy Science & Nature Science Fiction

Authors

I
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

J
Jack Cohen

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

T
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 The Globe about?

    The Globe (The Science of Discworld II) focuses on the evolution of human storytelling and narrative thinking — why humans are uniquely compelled by stories, and what this means for consciousness. Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre appear as focal points in the Discworld narrative.

  • Do I need to read The Science of Discworld first?

    Recommended — the series introduces the Roundworld concept in book one, and The Globe assumes familiarity with it. The science chapters are more self-contained.

  • Who wrote The Globe?

    Terry Pratchett (the Discworld fiction sections) and Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen (the science chapters). Published in 2002 by Ebury Press.

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