terry pratchett
41) Judgement day
Author
Series
The science of Discworld volume IV
Publisher
Ebury Press
Language
English
Description
Marjorie Dawe is a librarian, and takes her job - and indeed the truth of words - very seriously. She doesn't know it, but her world and ours - Roundworld - is in big trouble. On Discworld, a colossal row is brewing. The Wizards of the Unseen University feel responsible for Roundworld (as one would for a pet gerbil). After all, they brought it into existence by bungling an experiment in Quantum ThaumoDynamics. But legal action is being brought against...
42) The long cosmos
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Language
English
Description
2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day and in the Long Earth, the new Next post-human society continues to evolve. For Joshua Valiente, now in his late sixties, it is time to take one last solo journey into the High Meggers: an adventure that turns into a disaster. Alone and facing death, his only hope of salvation lies with a group of trolls. But as Joshua confronts his mortality, the Long Earth receives a signal from the stars. A signal that...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An exclusive collection of 20 early short stories by one of the world's best loved authors - these are rediscovered tales that Pratchett wrote under a pseudonym for newspapers during the 1970s and 1980s. Whilst none of the stories are set in the Discworld, they hint towards the world he would go on to create in his award-winning and globally bestselling series, containing all of his trademark wit, satirical wisdom and fantastic imagination. These...
47) Pyramids
Author
Series
The Discworld volume 7
Publisher
Corgi
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
It isn't easy being a teenage pharaoh, having to deal with assassins, sphinxes, mad high priests, gods, sacred crocodiles and marching mummies. And all you really want is the chance to do something for young people and the inner cities.
Author
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Eric calls up a demon to grant him three wishes - but what he gets is Discworld's most incompetent wizard! Terry Pratchett's take on the Faust legend stars many of Discworld's most popular characters in an outrageous adventure that will leave Eric wishing once more - this time, quite fervently - that he'd never been born.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
This is the city, Ankh-Morpok, celebrated in Terry Pratchett's 'Discworld' series as you've never seen it before. A stunning map and comprehensive street directory covering each and every district from Unseen University to the Shades, major landmarks like the Patrician's Palace to little-known nooks like Dwarf Bread Museum in Whirligig Alley.
52) Diggers
Author
Series
The nomes volume 2
Publisher
Corgi
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A bright new dawn is in prospect for the tiny nomes when they move into the ruined buildings of an abandoned quarry. But soon, strange things are happening - not only that, but the humans reappear and decide to re-open the quarry. This is the tale of a race of little people struggling to survive in a human world.
Author
Series
The Discworld volume 2
Publisher
Corgi
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld has one possible saviour. Unfortunately, this happens to be the singularly inept Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world.
55) The long war
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A generation after the events of 'The Long Earth', mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth - but in turn the Long Earth is shaping mankind.
56) Guards! Guards!
Author
Series
The Discworld volume 8
Publisher
Corgi
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A night-time prowler is turning the inhabitants of Ankh-Morpork, the greatest city in Discworld, into something resembling charcoal biscuits. Captain Vimes of the City Watch is given the task of tracking down the culprit, a seventy-foot dragon.
Author
Series
The Discworld volume 3
Publisher
Corgi
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A wizard predicts his own death and readies himself for the traditional transfer of power to the eighth son of an eighth son. The snag is that the eighth son is a daughter and women can't be wizards.
60) Eric
Author
Publisher
Millennium
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. Pity he's not very good at it. All he wants is his 3 wishes granted - to be immortal, rule the world, and have the most beautiful woman in the world fall madly in love with him.