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Original Title: Strata
ISBN: 0552133256 (ISBN13: 9780552133258)
Edition Language: English
Characters: Kin Arad, Marco Farfarer, Jago Jalo, Silver
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Strata Paperback | Pages: 285 pages
Rating: 3.5 | 9923 Users | 329 Reviews

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Strata is another early foray that Pratchett took in to Science Fiction before he rested himself firmly in to the loving arms of Fantasy. My views on this one are similar to that of his other sci-fi novel, The Dark Side of the Sun in that it isn't necessarily a good novel, let alone a good sci-fi story.

The joy of this one is of course, once again, the fact that it pre-empts the Discworld so wonderfully. You can clearly see PTerry's mind cogs whirring and the imagination is startling. However, he isn't particularly adept at writing sci-fi: again, we have stuttering explanations and quite shoddy sci-fi elements where it feels like he was truly excited by this piece of technology but half-way through telling us about it he got a bit fed up.

The characters are similarly developed than in The Dark Side of the Sun, but there seems an edge to them here that you don't see in that one, but you do see in Discworld. We also have the wonderful camaraderie of a cosmopolitan world. The Disc has no aliens, but they all seem alien even on such a small world.

Again, I'd suggest you don't read this is you're not a fan of Terry Pratchett or obscure sci-fi. It's a little hard to swallow due to it's stuttering nature, but the imagination is undeniable. It's such a great thing to read if you love Discworld because here it is, set down at it's earliest incarnation and that is very exciting.



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Title:Strata
Author:Terry Pratchett
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 285 pages
Published:April 22nd 1988 by Corgi (first published 1981)
Categories:Fantasy. Science Fiction. Fiction. Humor

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Ratings: 3.5 From 9923 Users | 329 Reviews

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So...I love Pratchett's Disc World books. They are like literary potato chips to me, I can't read just one. I reread them when life is being particularly difficult and I need a safe and enjoyable place to park my brain. Strata is not part of Disc World. Except in someways it is. But not really. Strata was written before any of the Disc World books, and you can see the early incarnations of ideas that Disc World was based on. But only in the physical sense. Missing in Strata is the fiercely witty

While this may not have been his best work or best writing, I can definitely see the humor and beginnings of his slightly subversive wit and worldview peaking out. Its not near as polished as his later work, but I liked this crazy story about the origins of the universe, our inability to not create, and the importance of diversity, as much as is physically possible being the key to the future. Plus I forgot how fun the kooky 70s- 80s sci-fi could be.

Despite reading Pratchett since I was twelve, I've never picked up Strata. Why?It's just not particularly good.That's a hard thing for a massive Pratchett fan to say, but my favourite thing about this book is that I've finished it.It's episodic to a fairly ridiculous degree. So this happened. Then this happened. Then they kept walking and this happened. Then they flew for a while and this happened. None of the happening are in any way influenced by the previous happenings. It's just a long chain

I am so glad that, when I was introduced to Terry Pratchett, the book I was given was the Colour of Magic and not thie one.If this had been my first exposure to Pratchett, I doubt I would ever have bothered to read anything of his ever again.Now that I know Pratchett's work better, I can look back with interest and observe the development of a best-selling author from this to his more celebrated works.If you are new to Pratchett and are reading this, my recommendation would be to start with

Sir Terry Pratchett defies the pop writer's trajectory: his books got better the more he wrote, even as his wallet got fatter and his formulas got more rigid and intractable.* The Color of Magic was an unenjoyable start to a brilliant series, and Strata is the kind of shallow, maniacal stuff you'd hear in the sandbox from a small child with toy spacemen. The fact that it was published at all is bizarre because it's, well, unpublishable - the first 70 pages are equal parts bland exposition and

Enjoyable but definitely a bit weird, not quite as much humour as the Discworld books either, but fun.