Terry Pratchett
Author
Series
Discworld volume 33
Formats
Description
The wizards of Unseen University in the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed forever.
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
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Description
Finally finding the mecca of isolation in a distant region known as the High Meggas, Larry Lynsey, a recluse who is aggressively protective of his singular solitude, finds his quiet existence shattered by the arrival of two accidental tourists and will do everything in his power to make them leave.
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 4
Formats
Description
Lobsang's pursuit of a human life, Joshua's search for his father and the adaptation efforts of "the Next" post-humans are challenged by a voracious alien race that would conquer and colonize the Long Earth.
"2045-2059. Human society continues to evolve on Datum Earth, its battered and weary origin planet, as the spread of humanity progresses throughout the many Earths beyond. Lobsang, now an elderly and complex AI, suffers a breakdown, and disguised...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 26
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
Carefully reallocating the Time of Discworld to where it is most needed, Monk of History Lu Tze and his apprentice begin a literal race against time when the world's first truly accurate clock threatens to stop Time forever.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
286 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Description
"A collection of short fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from schooldays to Discworld and the present day. In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short-form fiction collected into one volume. A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett's long writing...
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 5
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
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Author
Series
Science of Discworld volume 3
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 21 cm
Description
The wizard scholars of Unseen University wrestle with the popularity of a theory of theological design put forth by a man named Darwin.
9) Dodger
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
360 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"In an alternative version of Victorian London, a seventeen-year-old Dodger, a cunning and cheeky street urchin, unexpectedly rises in life when he saves a mysterious girl, meets Charles Dickens, and unintentionally puts a stop to the murders of Sweeny Todd"--
10) The long war
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
421 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
A new America called Valhalla grows restless under the controlling long arm of the Datum government, while all of the Long Earth is infused by the song of the trolls who are starting to react to humanity's thoughtless exploitation, bringing humankind to the brink of war.
11) The Long Mars
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous rescue work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across the Long Mars and wants her...
12) Eric
Author
Series
Discworld volume 9
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
129 pages ; 20 cm
Description
Discworld's only demonology hacker, Eric,is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork's denizens. This would-be Faust is very bad . . . at his work, that is.All he wants is to fulfill three little wishes:to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a stylin' hot babe. But Eric isn't even good at getting his own way. Instead of a powerful demon, he conjures, well, Rincewind, a wizard whose incompetence is matched...