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Literature: Strata A Science Fiction, pre-Discworld novel
written by Terry Pratchett. It explores the possibility of a
Flat World, the concept that would go on to become the
Discworld.  Kin Arad's job is building worlds. She works for a
mysterious organisation called only the Company. But then one
day she is contacted by a man claiming to be, essentially, an
early space probe who was sent off into space. He enlists her to
travel to a strange world that he claims to be flat. So Kin
teams up with a kung (4-armed amphibious Proud Warrior Race
Guy), Marco, and a shand (tusked, hungry and bear-like, but
ultimately friendly), Silver, and they head off to investigate
this world.  Once there, they find a world that pretty much
matches with the old myths about the Earth — it's flat, things
go round it, stars are actually points on a sphere surrounding
it, and so on. Also, the world is still in the dark ages, and
demons very much exist.  It's also worth not