Men At Arms (eBook)

(Discworld Novel 15)

TERRY PRATCHETT (Autor)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
432 Seiten
Transworld (Verlag)
9781407034904 (ISBN)

Infos

'What's so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work's already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the stone in the first place.'Fate is a word that springs to the lips when to call something coincidence seems mealy mouthed. Destiny is another such. But the problem with destiny is, of course, that she is not always careful where she points her finger. One minute you might be minding your own business on a normal if not spectacular career path, the next you might be in the frame for the big job, like saving the world...

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Discover the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry Pratchett, the second book in the City Watch series, part of the Discworld novels.'Funny, wise and mock heroic . . . the best-crafted book I have read all year' Sunday Express Pratchett at his best 5-star reader review'People ought to think for themselves ... The problem is, people only think for themselves if you tell them to.'Times are a-changing in Ankh-Morpork's Night Watch.New recruits have been hired to reflect the city's diversity, including Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), and Lance-constable Angua (a woman ... full moons aside).What's more, Captain Sam Vimes is getting married and retiring from the Watch. For good. Which is a shame, because no one knows the streets of Ankh-Morpork or its criminal underworld better than him.And someone armed and dangerous has been getting ideas about power and destiny and lost kings, committing a string of seemingly random murders across the city.The new recruits will need to learn fast ...Men At Arms is the second book in the City Watch 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.12.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-13: 9781407034904 / 9781407034904