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Podcast: Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club
Episode: Daniel Superbaboon (âThe High Meggasâ)
Description: We take a last-minute step (or five) to the West, as Liz and Ben delay their chat about The Long Mars to go back to where it all began: Pratchettâs original 1986 short story âThe High Meggasâ.
Larry Linsay, who perfected the belt technology that allows humans to move between parallel Earths, has shunned civilisation. Heâs living near the coast of what would be France in a world in the âhigh meggasâ, the weirder Earths a million or so removed from the original. Like all the other Earths, itâs devoid of human life â or it was, until two gu...