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Thief of time, Discworld series, book 26., Terry Pratchett

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Thief of time, Discworld series, book 26., Terry Pratchett

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Thief of time

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Terry Pratchett

Series statement

Discworld

Sub title

Discworld series, book 26.

Summary

'This is the best Pratchett I've read' Sunday Telegraph The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. You mess with it at your peril. You can let it move fast or slowly but what you mustn't do is allow it to stop. The Monks of History have the glamorous job of time management in the Discworld . They store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like the underwater - how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time. But with the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time begins for History monk for Lu Tze and his suspiciously talented apprentice Lobsang Ludd . Because a truly accurate clock will stop time. And when time stands still, everything in human existence stops with it. Then, there really is no future. _________________ The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Thief of Time is the fifth book in the Death series

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