Thief Of Time

Name: Thief Of Time : (Discworld Novel 26)
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(Discworld Novel 26)

Terry Pratchett

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«'Terry Pratchett is one of the great inventors of secondary - or imaginative or alternative - worlds. He is not derivative. He is too strong...He has the real energy of the primary storyteller'—A. S. Byatt, The Times

'In a better world he would be acclaimed as a great writer rather than a merely successful one...This is the best Pratchett I've read...Ought to be a strong contender for The Booker Prize'—Charles Spencer, Sunday Telegraph

'Reads with all the polished fluency and sure-footed pacing that have become Pratchett's hallmarks over the years'—Peter Ingham, The Times On Saturday»

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'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.
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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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Forlag: Corgi Books
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 432
ISBN: 9780552167642
Utgivelsesår: 2013
Format: 20 x 13 cm

Om forfatteren

Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books which have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood for services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.

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«'Terry Pratchett is one of the great inventors of secondary - or imaginative or alternative - worlds. He is not derivative. He is too strong...He has the real energy of the primary storyteller'—A. S. Byatt, The Times

'In a better world he would be acclaimed as a great writer rather than a merely successful one...This is the best Pratchett I've read...Ought to be a strong contender for The Booker Prize'—Charles Spencer, Sunday Telegraph

'Reads with all the polished fluency and sure-footed pacing that have become Pratchett's hallmarks over the years'—Peter Ingham, The Times On Saturday»

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Vusel – 21.04.2010

– Det er vel bare i Pratchetts gale verden at en ting som en korrekt klokke kan finne på å få katastrofale følger for hele verden. Men nå er det da en gang slik at ting fungerer på en litt annen måte på Discworld, og samme hvor mye det har blitt advart mot et slikt prosjekt er det påbegynt igjen. Lu Tze og Lobsang Ludd må redde verden, med hjelp fra Ronnie, og når jeg sitter her og skriver dette ser jeg at det ser fullstendig koko ut, men det er jo det som er essensen i "Discworld"-serien, absolutt galskap. Men det er fantastisk flott galskap!