by NRB | 28 Jan 2014 | SFF |
This new novel is an exuberant celebration of the endlessly changing Discworld. In Raising Steam, Terry Pratchett’s 40th book set on the Discworld, Ankh-Morpork, the most exciting and vibrant – but grubby – city on the Disc, is nearly a decade older than when we last...
by NRB | 13 Aug 2012 | Fiction, SFF |
The master of Discworld enters a new dimension. People who buy a new Terry Pratchett usually do so in the hope of finding themselves in the comfortable, funny and wise purlieus of Discworld; full of well-known characters with personalities hovering on the edge of...
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