The acclaimed Technology of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the Wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed the creation and progression of our universe, a plot that was interleaved with a Cohen & Stewart non-fiction narrative about Big Technology. In The Research of Discworld II our writers join forces again to see precisely what happens when the wizards meddle with history in a battle against the elves for future years of humanity on the planet. London is replaced by a dozy Neanderthal town. The Renaissance can be given a push. The role of fat women in art is created. And one very well-known playwright gets born and writes The Play. Weaving collectively a fast-paced Discworld novelette with cutting-edge scientific commentary within the advancement and development of the human being mind, culture, language, art, and science, this is a book in which ‘the hard technology is really as gripping as the fiction’. (THE CHANGING TIMES)