Interesting Times (discworld)

  • ISBN: 9780552142359
  • Author: Terry Pratchett
  • Description:
    Mighty battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and his sons terror and panic, and daughter Clancy). The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise What I did on My Holidays. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. Warlords are struggling for power. War (and Clancy) are spreading throughout the ancient cities. And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is: Rincewind the Wizard, who can't even spell the word 'wizard'...Cohen the barbarian hero, five foot tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime's experience of not dying...and a very special butterfly. From the Publisher reviews'Imagine a collision between Jonathan Swift at his most scatalogically-minded and J.R.R Tolkein on speed… This total mess of- I suppose- a novel, is the joyous outcome' GERALD KAUFMAN, Daily Telegraph'This spinner of crazy science-fiction tales is a very sophisticated jester' The Times'Cracking dialogue, compelling illogic and unchained whimsy… Pratchett has a subject and a style that is very much his own' JOHN MELMOUTH, Sunday Times'Pratchett is as funny as Wodehouse and as witty as Waugh' CHRISTINA HARDYMENT, Independent From the Back Cover MIGHTY BATTLES! REVOLUTION! DEATH! WAR! (AND HIS SONS TERROR AND PANIC, AND DAUGHTER CLANCY) The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought on by the revolutionary treatise What I did on My Holidays. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. War (and Clancy) are spreading through the ancient cities. And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is: Rincewind the Wizard, who can't even spell the word 'wizard'... Cohen the barbarian hero, five feet tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime's experience of not dying... ...and a very special butterfly. About the Author Terry Pratchett lives in Wiltshire. His Discworld series is a publishing phenomenon. He has been awarded four honorary doctorates. He won the Carnegie Medal for the Discworld novel MAURICE AND HIS AMAZING EDUCATED RODENTS. He was made an OBE in 1998. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
  • Pages: 351
  • Format: Paperback
  • Genre: Science Fiction
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