Thief Of Time
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Description
'This is the best Pratchett I've read' Sunday Telegraph
'Maybe the best Discworld book' 5-star reader review
'The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew . . . The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.'
Time is a resource. Everyone knows it must be managed. You can let it move fast or slowly, but what you mustn't do is allow it to stop.
On the Discworld, the History Monks have the important job of ensuring that tomorrow always comes. But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well . . . time.
Monk Lu-Tze, his apprentice Lobsang Ludd and Death's granddaughter Susan must stop the clockmaker before he completes his task. Because a truly accurate clock will stop time completely.
And then, there really will be no tomorrow . . .
Thief of Time is the fifth book in the Death series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.
Praise for the Discworld series:
'[Pratchett's] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday
'Pratchett is a master storyteller' Guardian
'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George R.R. Martin
'One of those rare writers who appeals to everyone' Daily Express
'One of the most consistently funny writers around' Ben Aaronovitch
'Masterful and brilliant' Fantasy & Science Fiction
'Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own... he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable' The Times
'The best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse' The Sunday Telegraph
'Nothing short of magical' Chicago Tribune
'Consistently funny, consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns' SFX
'[Discworld is] compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world...There's never been anything quite like it' Evening Standard
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Jeremy Clockson is so keen about being accurate that he drives his fellow clock makers around the bend. One day, a woman comes to him with a challenge: to create the most accurate time piece ever conceived, what people call a "glass clock." As you can imagine, this draws the ire of The Monks of History, last seen in Small Gods. Toss in Lu Tze and Lobsang, martial arts flicks, rock bands and how teaching should be done according to Susan Sto-Helit running afoul of her school's principal, Madam Frout, and we're off. One small problem, as soon as the clock starts ticking, time officially stops for the Discworld and so too does life as the Disc understands it, which is just fine for the auditors. That is until one auditor finds out just how wrong they were to deny all the things the Disc offers.
Terry Pratchetts Tod-Geschichten von der Scheibenwelt sind immer eine Runde Lesen wert. Dieses Mal holt er seine Kollegen ab, um die Apokalypse einzuleiten.
If time ends, the world has to end, right? Death, his kolleagues plague, war and famine from the famed four horsemen ride out, agreeing that apocalypse aren't the same these days. All the while two similar brothers, one a talented thief, the other a perfectionist clock maker try to find out- how much time do they actually have till it happens? Slicing time till it is so cut up, she is barely recognizable. And the arbiters of reality, the auditors, also play a role. Is this the end of Discworld, as we know it? The answer might be yes and no.
Description
'This is the best Pratchett I've read' Sunday Telegraph
'Maybe the best Discworld book' 5-star reader review
'The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew . . . The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.'
Time is a resource. Everyone knows it must be managed. You can let it move fast or slowly, but what you mustn't do is allow it to stop.
On the Discworld, the History Monks have the important job of ensuring that tomorrow always comes. But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well . . . time.
Monk Lu-Tze, his apprentice Lobsang Ludd and Death's granddaughter Susan must stop the clockmaker before he completes his task. Because a truly accurate clock will stop time completely.
And then, there really will be no tomorrow . . .
Thief of Time is the fifth book in the Death series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.
Praise for the Discworld series:
'[Pratchett's] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday
'Pratchett is a master storyteller' Guardian
'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George R.R. Martin
'One of those rare writers who appeals to everyone' Daily Express
'One of the most consistently funny writers around' Ben Aaronovitch
'Masterful and brilliant' Fantasy & Science Fiction
'Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own... he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable' The Times
'The best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse' The Sunday Telegraph
'Nothing short of magical' Chicago Tribune
'Consistently funny, consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns' SFX
'[Discworld is] compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world...There's never been anything quite like it' Evening Standard
Book Information
Posts
Jeremy Clockson is so keen about being accurate that he drives his fellow clock makers around the bend. One day, a woman comes to him with a challenge: to create the most accurate time piece ever conceived, what people call a "glass clock." As you can imagine, this draws the ire of The Monks of History, last seen in Small Gods. Toss in Lu Tze and Lobsang, martial arts flicks, rock bands and how teaching should be done according to Susan Sto-Helit running afoul of her school's principal, Madam Frout, and we're off. One small problem, as soon as the clock starts ticking, time officially stops for the Discworld and so too does life as the Disc understands it, which is just fine for the auditors. That is until one auditor finds out just how wrong they were to deny all the things the Disc offers.
Terry Pratchetts Tod-Geschichten von der Scheibenwelt sind immer eine Runde Lesen wert. Dieses Mal holt er seine Kollegen ab, um die Apokalypse einzuleiten.
If time ends, the world has to end, right? Death, his kolleagues plague, war and famine from the famed four horsemen ride out, agreeing that apocalypse aren't the same these days. All the while two similar brothers, one a talented thief, the other a perfectionist clock maker try to find out- how much time do they actually have till it happens? Slicing time till it is so cut up, she is barely recognizable. And the arbiters of reality, the auditors, also play a role. Is this the end of Discworld, as we know it? The answer might be yes and no.