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Subject: Re: Constructed as in BUILT, guys... - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 18-Jul-84 18:02:00 EDT
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ea!mwm    Jul 18 17:02:00 1984

He wants built worlds, let's give him a few:

The largest built world story (the world is big, not the story) is Terry
Pratchett's "Strata". It makes Farmer's _World of Tiers_ books (previously
mentioned on the net) look small time.

************** MILD SPOILER ****************


In "Strata", we have

	1) A race that creates Hydrogen out of ????.
	2) A race that creates stars out of free Hydrogen.
	3) A race that builds worlds around world-less stars.
	4) A race that lays down crusts on worlds (with "strata machines",
		of course).
	5) (The biggy) A race that builds universes, complete with
		evidence that 1-4 exist.

The only world we get to see in any detail is a *flat* world (Pratchett
likes those - his first novel dealt with one, too) that looks like the
medieval version of earth, complete with angels, devils (or deveels :-) and
magic.

	<mike