One day Granny Weatherwax was returning home after a good day of witching looking forward to a cup of tea when she found...something in her herb garden sampling the various plants. Something strange. Something removed from life as she knew it. Something...alien. Strange enough so she overlooked propriety and took a look into the thing's mind, only to find something even stranger. Memories of a hot jungle valley with a small peak in it at dawn. Of strange towns full of these things working with more wading out of pools. Forests leveled to make room for farms. Of tools going from sticks and stones to iron and steel to things as complicated like clocks, then more and more elaborate and allowing a mind that started out pretty bright and got larger and brighter to reach out. Of fighting, of war and a mind which regarded others as at best temporarily useful allies of necessity but ultimately as intelligent obstacles that needed to be removed because they were in the way. And nine of of these creatures linked together by little things strapped to it's eye stalks finding themselves in this strange forest suddenly.





In response she got out her broom and began poking the big four legged thing and telling it to get lost until it learnt some manners.





Discworld was made by Terry Pratchett.

Pandora' Star was made by Peter F. Hamilton

