The Company builds planets. Kin Arad is a high-ranking official of theCompany. After twenty-one decades of living, and with the help of memorysurgery, she is at the top of her profession. Discovering two of heremployees have placed a fossilized plesiosaur in the wrong stratum, not tomention the fact it is holding a placard which reads, 'End Nuclear TestingNow',
doesn't dismay the woman who built a mountain range in the shape ofher initials during her own high-spirited youth. But then came discoveryof something which did intrigue Kin Arad. A flat earth was somethingnew...First published in 1981, Strata is an early exploration of the ideathat was to become the bestselling Discworld series.