Soul Music (eBook)

(Discworld Novel 16)

TERRY PRATCHETT (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2009 | 1. Auflage
432 Seiten
Transworld (Verlag)
978-1-4070-3493-5 (ISBN)

Infos

'Be careful what you wish for. You never know who might be listening.'There's no getting away from it. From whichever angle, Death is a horrible, inescapable business. But someone's got to do it. So if Death decides to take a well-earned moment to uncover the meaning of life and discover himself in the process, then there is going to be a void of specific dimensions that needs to be occupied, particularly so when there is trouble brewing in Discworld. There aren't too many who are qualified to fill Death's footsteps and it certainly doesn't help the imminent cataclysm that the one person poised between the mortal and the immortal is only sixteen years old...

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Discover the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry Pratchett, the third book in the Death series, part of the Discworld novels.'Genius . . . deals with death with startling originality' New York Times Terry Pratchett at his best. Fantastic book 5-star reader review'This didn't feel like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.'Being sixteen is always difficult, but it's even more so when there's a Death in the family.Susan hasn't exactly had a normal upbringing, with a skeletal grandfather who rides a white horse and wields a scythe.When Death decides he needs a well-earned break, he leaves Susan to take over the family business. The only problem is, everyone mistakes her for the Tooth Fairy . . .Well, not the only problem. There's a new, addictive music in Discworld. It's lawless. It changes people. It's got a beat and you can dance to it.It's called Music With Rocks In. And it won't fade away . . .Soul Music is the third 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.5.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 1-4070-3493-6 / 1407034936
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4070-3493-5 / 9781407034935