The Last Continent
Chapter One
Against the stars a turtle passes, carrying four elephants on its shell.
Both turtle and elephants are bigger than people might expect, but out between the stars the difference between huge and tiny is, comparatively speaking, very small.
But this turtle and these elephants are, by turtle and elephant standards, big.They carry the Discworld, with its vast lands, cloudscapes, and oceans.
People don't live on the Disc any more than, in less hand-crafted parts of the multiverse, they live on balls.Oh, planets may be the place where their body eats its tea, but they liveelsewhere, in worlds of their own which orbit very handily around the center of their heads.
When gods get together they tell the story of one particular planet whose inhabitants watched, with mild interest, huge continent-wrecking slabs of ice slap into another world which was in astronomical terms, right next door--and then did nothing about it because that sort of thing only happens in Outer Space.An intelligent species would at least have found someone to complain to. Anyway, no one seriously believes in ... read full excerpt from: The Last Continent ebook
