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Science was always present for novelist Terry Pratchett

Science was always present for novelist Terry Pratchett

Update: 2025-12-04
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Next week we celebrate the English author of fantasy novels Terry Pratchett who died in 2015. Physicist Len Fisher presents this tribute and says the scientific references and thinking in Pratchett’s novels are too often overlooked.

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Science was always present for novelist Terry Pratchett

Science was always present for novelist Terry Pratchett

Australian Broadcasting Corporation