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The Utopia of Science
Jan. 30th, 2011 06:19 pmJun 2010
Nation - Terry Pratchett - Corgi, 2009
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This is a very unusual book from Mr Pratchett. It is his first in many years that is not set in the Discworld. Despite being ostensibly a young adult novel, it is also notably more brutal, based as it is on the grim notion of an entire island society being wiped out by a tsunami and clearly inspired by the events of Boxing Day 2004. But it is also a book where Pratchett's philosophical preoccupations are unusually to the fore, and one of the few in which they are properly worked out.
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Nation - Terry Pratchett - Corgi, 2009
* * * * *
This is a very unusual book from Mr Pratchett. It is his first in many years that is not set in the Discworld. Despite being ostensibly a young adult novel, it is also notably more brutal, based as it is on the grim notion of an entire island society being wiped out by a tsunami and clearly inspired by the events of Boxing Day 2004. But it is also a book where Pratchett's philosophical preoccupations are unusually to the fore, and one of the few in which they are properly worked out.
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