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THE COMPANY BUILDS PLANETS.
Kin Arad is a high-ranking official of the Company. After twenty-one decades of living, and with the help of memory surgery, she is at the top of her profession. Discovering two of her employees have placed a fossilized plesiosaur in the wrong stratum, not to mention the fact it is holding a placard which reads, 'End Nuclear Testing Now', doesn't dismay the woman who built a mountain range in the shape of her initials during her own high-spirited youth.
But then came discovery of something which did intrigue Kin Arad. A flat earth was something new...
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The plot is as follows: Kin Arad (a 210-year-old woman) works for the “Company”, a planet building corporation. With in the first few pages she is approached by the stranger Jalo, who tells her that he has discovered a Spindle world (the Spindles were an ancient race of very talented world builders). She is intrigued and later agrees to join him in located the planet (which is flat) again.
This is a very enjoyable book; some times hilarious, other times deadly serious and profound. The plot is not very original, being very similar to Larry Niven’s “Ringworld”, but captures and holds the reader’s attention (well mime anyway). The characters each have individual and very likeable personalities, while the description of the Discworld are fantastic and vivid.
Surprisingly, this novel has a fairly solid theme that builds up towards the end. Highly recommended, especially to Discworld fans.
The novel starts well, with a good build up as the three lead characters are drawn into a trip to the recently discovered Discworld, and the final revelation of what the Discworld is and who built it is satisfying, but there is a definite sag in the middle of the story, as the few Discworld inhabitants the exploration meet are decidedly dull. Thematically this is a sound novel, but the execution is sometimes a little flat.
A reasonably interesting but not wholly successful novel, Strata is best recommended as a curio for those Discworld fans who wish to see how Pratchett developed his ideas.
It's impossible to read this book without comparing it to his works on the Discworld and very interesting to read because of that. Read more
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