This is a great book by
Terry Pratchett. Very very
weird, if you don't know anything about it you could be
forgiven for thinking it is another
Discworld novel. It is about a
flat world after all. It is not set in Discworld though, but another equally as
interesting world within a
fantastic universe.
The following is the blurb off the Hard Cover edition.
A flat earth? Impossible. Kin Arad is the 210-year-old super-visor in charge of resurfacing the newly named planet, Kingdom. When she finds Jago Jalo, a man who has a cloak of invisibility and should have died a thousand years ago, in her office, she decides he must have an unusual tale. He has. He knows where such a world is. It is like the medieval earth . . . almost. Leiv Eriksson is setting off for the New World, but he will never find it. Instead he sails to the edge of the world and its eternal waterfall.
It is obvious that this "earth" has been built by the Great Spindle Kings, makers of universes, inventors of the strata machine and the ultimate in claustrophobes, and Jalo lures the human Kin, the kung Marco Farfarer and the fifty-six-syllable-named shand better known as Silver, to undertake a voyage of discovery with him: the rewards must be beyond their dreams . . . or nightmares.
This is the blurb from the paperback edition.
The excavation showed that the fossilized plesiosaur had been holding a placard which read, "End Nuclear Testing Now". That was nothing unusual. But then came a discovery of something which *did* intrigue Kin Arad. A flat earth was something new ...