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In 2001 he won the Carnegie Medal for his children’s novel The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents.

He was the United Kingdom’s bestselling author of the 1990s and has sold more than 55 million books worldwide. His first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971, and after publishing his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983, he wrote two books a year on average. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series. Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) was an English novelist known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. Interwoven with the Pratchett’s original story are entertaining, enlightening chapters which explain key scientific principles such as the Big Bang theory and the evolution of life on earth, as well as great moments in the history of science. As the wizards watch their creation grow, Terry Pratchett and acclaimed science writers Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen use Discworld to examine science from the outside. Roundworld is, of course, Earth, and the universe is our own. Within this universe is a planet that they name Roundworld. Can Unseen University’s eccentric wizards and orangutan Librarian possibly shed any useful light on hard, rational Earthly science? In the course of an exciting experiment, the wizards of Discworld have accidentally created a new universe. Not just another science audiobook and not just another Discworld novella, The Science of Discworld is a creative, mind-bending mash-up of fiction and fact, that offers a wizard’s-eye view of our world that will forever change how you look at the universe.

Download terry pratchett discworld audiobooks