When a wizardly experiment goes adrift the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe on their hands: Roundworld where neither magic nor common sense seems to stand a chance against logic. The Universe of course is our own. & Roundworld is Earth. As the wizards watch their accidental creation grow we follow the story of our universe from the primal singularity of the Big Bang to the Internet & beyond. Through this original Terry Pratchett story (with intervening chapters from Cohen & Stewart) we discover how puny & insignificant individual lives are against a cosmic backdrop of creation & disaster. Yet paradoxically we see how the richness of a universe based on rules has led to a complex world & at least one species that tried to get a grip of what was going on.