Thief Of Time: (Discworld Novel 26)

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Random House, 9 Oct 2008 - Fiction - 432 pages

'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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Jeremy Clockson is so keen about being accurate that he drives his fellow clock makers around the bend. One day, a woman comes to him with a challenge: to create the most accurate time piece ever ... Read full review

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A cleverly constructed story. My favourite parts, the parts which struck me as particularly insightful or where the humour appealed to me the most, were Susan as a schoolteacher and the conversations ... Read full review

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Contents

Section 23
273
Section 24
279
Section 25
296
Section 26
304
Section 27
308
Section 28
327
Section 29
328
Section 30
329

Section 9
100
Section 10
101
Section 11
142
Section 12
144
Section 13
153
Section 14
155
Section 15
188
Section 16
209
Section 17
220
Section 18
222
Section 19
227
Section 20
247
Section 21
254
Section 22
265
Section 31
331
Section 32
334
Section 33
346
Section 34
361
Section 35
366
Section 36
367
Section 37
384
Section 38
385
Section 39
386
Section 40
397
Section 41
409
Section 42
411
Section 43
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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. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. He died in March 2015.

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