- English Fantasy fiction, Discworld (Imaginary place), Discworld (Imaginary place, Fiction
In Discworld, time is a resource managed by the highly capable Monks of History. Everybody wants more time, which is why on Discworld only the experts can manage it. While everyone always talks about slowing down, one young horologist is about to do the unthinkable. He's going to stop. Well, stop time that is, by building the world's first truly accurate clock. Which means esteemed History Monk Lu-Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd have to put on some speed to stop the timepiece before it starts. For if the perfect clock starts ticking, time, as we know it, will end. And then the trouble will really begin.
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Classical in form, comic, epic and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Terry Pratchett
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Corgi Audio, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 32
- Language
- Spanish, Dutch, wel, French
- ISBN
- 9781804990414
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“According to the First Scroll of Wen the Eternally Surprised, Wen Stepped out of the cave where he had received enlightenment and into the dawning light of the first day of the rest of his life.”
Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE more commonly known as Terry Pratchett, was an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best-known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels. Pratchett's first novel, *The Carpet People*, was published in 1971, and since his first Discworld novel (*The Colour of Magic*) was published in 1983, he has written two books a year on average. Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s, and as of December 2007 had sold more than 55 million books worldwide, with translations made into 36 languages. He is currently the second most-read writer in the UK, and seventh most-read no
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