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Author
Index
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Terry
Pratchett |
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Title
Index
The |
The
Colour of Magic |
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| Year |
1983 |
| Publisher |
Corgi
Books (Colin
Smythe) |
| ISBN |
0552124753 |
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Synopsis
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On a
world supported on
the back of a
giant turtle (sex
unknown). a
gleeful,
explosive,
wickedly eccentric
expedition sets
out. There's
an avaricious but
inept wizard, a
native tourist
whose luggage
moves on hundreds
of dear little
legs, dragons who
only exist if you
believe in them,
and of course THE
EDGE of the planet
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| Review
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Jerome
K. Jerome meets
Lord of the Rings
(with a touch of
Peter Pan).
The book that
started the
Discworld.
'Verbally
witty,
imaginatively
resourceful and
with a nice line
in comic-book
action, this novel
will be enjoyed by
those who enjoy
high-spirited
fantasy'
British Book
News
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Credit:
NASA
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Galactic
Hearts of
Glass
This
artist's
concept
shows
delicate
green
crystals
sprinkled
throughout
the core
of a pair
of
colliding
galaxies.
The white
spots
represent
a thriving
population
of stars
of all
sizes and
ages.
NASA's Spitzer
Space
Telescope
detected
more than
20 bright
and dusty
galactic
mergers
like the
one
depicted
here, all
teeming
with the
tiny
gem-like
crystals.
When
galaxies
collide,
they
trigger
the birth
of large
numbers of
massive
stars.
Astronomers
believe
these
blazing
hot stars
act like
furnaces
to produce
silicate
crystals
in the
same way
that glass
is made
from sand.
The stars
probably
shed the
crystals
as they
age, and
as they
blow apart
in
supernovae
explosions. |
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NASA
Image of
the day
archive |
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