Bücher von Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett's hilarious fourth Discworld novel established once and for all that Death really is a laughing matter...

The City Watch, one of Pratchett's finest creations, rendered - well maybe not Technicolor - but certainly as never seen before.

A beautiful gift-edition hardback of the classic Discworld novel.

A beautiful gift-edition hardback of the classic Discworld novel.

The hilarious end-of-the-world novel from two of the giants of fantasy fiction, now a major TV series, illustrated - for the first time ever - by Paul Kidby! With a corrected text, twelve full colour illustrations and further pencil drawings. This is the definitive edition of this much loved book.

A beautiful gift-edition hardback of the classic Discworld novel.

The fantastic first book in the Sunday Times bestselling Science of Discworld seriesWhen a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe on their hands: Roundworld, where neither magic nor common sense seems to stand a chance against logic. The Universe, of course, is our own. And Roundworld is Earth. As the wizards watch their accidental creation grow, we follow the story of our universe from the primal singularity of the Big Bang to the internet and beyond. Through this original Terry Pratchett story (with intervening chapters from Cohen and Stewart) we discover how puny and insignificant individual lives are against a cosmic backdrop of creation and disaster. Yet, paradoxically, we see how the richness of a universe based on rules, has led to a complex world and at least one species that tried to get a grip of what was going on. Terry Pratchett is the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. Raising Steam is his fortieth Discworld novel. His books have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he is the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. After falling out with his keyboard he now talks to his computer. Occasionally, these days, it answers back.www.terrypratchett.co.uk@terryandrob Professor Ian Stewart is the author of many popular science books. He is the mathematics consultant for New Scientist and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick. He was awarded the Michael Faraday Prize for furthering the public understanding of science, and in 2001 became a Fellow of the Royal Society. Dr Jack Cohen is an internationally-known reproductive biologist, and lives in Newent, Gloucestershire. Jack has a laboratory in his kitchen, helps couples get pregnant by referring them to colleagues, invents biologically realistic aliens for science fiction writers and, in his spare time, throws boomerangs. Jack, who has more letters to his name than can be repeated here, writes, lectures, talks and campaigns to promote public awareness of science, particularly biology. He is mostly retired.

'I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.'The most quotable writer of our time, Terry Pratchett's unique brand of wit made him both a bestseller and an enduring, endearing source of modern wisdom.

A nightmarish danger threatens from the other side of reality . . .Armed with only a frying pan and her common sense, young witch-to-be Tiffany Aching must defend her home against the monsters of Fairyland. Luckily she has some very unusual help: the local Nac Mac Feegle aka the Wee Free Men a clan of fierce, sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six-inch-high blue men.Together they must face headless horsemen, ferocious grimhounds, terrifying dreams come true, and ultimately the sinister Queen of the Elves herself . . .THE FIRST BOOK IN THE TIFFANY ACHING SEQUENCE

'They say that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach which just goes to show they're as confused about anatomy as they gen'rally are about everything else, unless they're talking about instructions on how to stab him, in which case a better way is up and under the ribcage.

An old enemy is gathering strength.This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad. As the fairy horde prepares for invasion, Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her.

2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day, a new society continues to evolve in the Long Earth. Now, a message has been received: ?Join us.?The Next?the hyper-intelligent post-humans?realize that the missive contains instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial intelligence known as The Machine. But to build this computer, the size of an Earth continent, they must obtain help from the more populous and still industrious worlds of mankind.Meanwhile, on a trek in the High Meggers, Joshua Valienté, now nearing seventy, is saved from death when a troll band discovers him. Living among the trolls as he recovers, Joshua develops a deeper understanding of this collective-intelligence species and its society. He discovers that some older trolls, with capacious memories, act as communal libraries and live on a very strange Long Earth world, in caverns under the root systems of trees as tall as mountains. He also learns something much more profound about life and its purpose in the Long Earth: We cultivate the cosmos to maximize the opportunities for life and joy in this universe, and to prepare for new universes to come.

'Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City Watch needs MEN!'But what it's got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance constable Detritus (a troll), Lance constable Angua (a woman... most of the time) and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving).

THE SECOND BOOK IN THE TIFFANY ACHING SERIESSomething is coming after Tiffany. Surely there must be more to witchcraft than this?And Tiffany will find that she needs her magic more than ever, to fight off the insidious, disembodied creature that is pursuing her.

Dom Salabos had a lot of advantages. As heir to a huge fortune, he had a robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuitry), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as godfather, a security chief who even ran checks on himself, and on Dom's home world even death was not always fatal. Why, then, in an age when prediction was a science, was his future in doubt?

.Somewhere - some time - there's a tangled ball of evil and spite, of hatred and malice, that has woken up. And it's waking up all the old stories too - stories about evil old witches .

When the Spirit of Winter takes a fancy to young witch Tiffany Aching, he wants her to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Because if Tiffany doesn't make it to Spring -- Spring won't come. THE THIRD BOOK IN THE TIFFANY ACHING SEQUENCE

2040. The Long Earth is in chaos. . . .The cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption is shutting down civilization. Populations flee to the safety of stepwise Earths. Sally Linsay, Joshua Valiente, and Lobsang are all involved in the perilous clean-up.But Joshua faces a crisis close to home. From deep in the Long Earth, a new breed of super-bright post-humans is emerging?but "normal" human society is turning against them.Meanwhile, Commander Maggie Kauffman embarks on an expedition to the unexplored limits of the Long Earth, and Sally is contacted by her father, Willis?inventor of the original Stepper. He is planning a voyage of his own?across the Long Mars. But what is his true motivation?For Joshua, for humankind, for the Long Earth itself?everything is different now.

Guards! Guards! «Varta! Varta!» ? pershij roman pidciklu «Varta» iz seriji «Diskosvit» Terri Pratchetta. Mis'ka varta slavetnogo mista Ank-Morporka zanepadae. Osnovni principi roboti vartovih: ne bigti zanadto shvidko, abi u zhodnomu razi ne nazdognati pravoporushnika, ne vstrjagati u bijki, abi uniknuti stusaniv, ne privertati do sebe nadto bagato uvagi, bo zh raptom htos' poprosit' pro dopomogu. Taktika nevtruchannja ? najbezpechnisha! Ta, zdaet'sja, stari principi dovedet'sja peregljanuti. Po-pershe, do lav vartovih zapisavsja dobrovolec': spovnenij sil, nathnennja ta nadmirnogo entuziazmu molodshij konstebl' Morkva. Vin znae usi zakoni i pravila, neuhil'no dotrimuet'sja bukvi zakonu j gotovij cilkom prisvjatiti sebe sluzhbi. A po-druge, v Ank-Morporku vidbuvaet'sja derzhavnij perevorot, Patricija kidajut' do v'jaznici, a korolem stae... drakon! Shhe toj tiran i pidpaljuvach, mizh inshim. U misti koji'sja kazna-shho, ank-morporkcjam potribna dopomoga. Ta chi vdast'sja mis'kij varti znovu stati doblesnoju, a golovne ? vrjatuvati Ank-Morpork?

A flat planet traveling through space carried by four elephants balancing on the back of a giant turtle; a world populated by (mostly inept) wizards, dwarfs, despots, policemen, assassins, aged barbarians, vampires, thieves, witches, and civil servants; a place where technology, per se, is nonexistent but magic works . . . except when it doesn't.Gleaned from more than two decades' worth of Discworld tales, here is an essential compendium of insightful musings, witty commentary, and sagacious observations by New York Times bestselling author Terry Pratchett, compiled by Pratchett expert Stephen Briggs.

Die erste Reise zur flachsten aller Welten! Kin Arad ist Planetengestalterin und wacht über den Bau neuer Welten. Dabei hat sie jede Menge Ärger mit ihren Mitarbeitern, die sich immer wieder alberne Scherze erlauben. Und dann taucht auch noch ein geheimnisvoller Fremder auf, der behauptet, eine flache Welt entdeckt zu haben, auf der Magier und Dämonen ihr Unwesen treiben. Kin Arad reist zu dem geheimnisvollen Planeten und macht eine unglaubliche Entdeckung ... In diesem Roman erschuf Terry Pratchett seine berühmte Scheibenwelt! 'Köstliche Unterhaltung voller Witz und Überraschungen!' Publishers Weekly

In der Kürze liegt die Würze! Terry Pratchett veröffentlichte seine erste Geschichte in einer Schülerzeitung, Jahrzehnte später ist er einer der bekanntesten Schriftsteller unserer Zeit. In dieser Erzählungssammlung treffen wir verliebte Prinzen, ein Rebhuhn im Birnbaum, einen Minister für Warteschlangen und allerlei andere außergewöhnliche Charaktere. Dabei werden wir einmal quer durch die Karriere des Großmeisters geführt: Von Geschichten aus Terry Pratchetts Schulzeit über solche, die er als junger Reporter schrieb, bis hin zu Werken aus den Tagen seines größten Erfolgs begeistern alle Storys mit unverwechselbarem Humor und der ganz besonderen Pratchett-Note!

2070-71: Jahrzehnte nach der Entdeckung des Wechslers, der erstmals das Pendeln zwischen Parallelwelten ermöglichte, floriert auf der Langen Erde eine neue posthumane Gesellschaft. Doch gerät diese in Aufruhr, als eine geheimnisvolle Botschaft aus der Mitte der Galaxie eingeht. Die superintelligenten Next entdecken darin die Baupläne für eine künstliche Intelligenz von gewaltigen Ausmaßen. Einmal gebaut, könnte der Computer nicht nur die Position der Langen Erde im Kosmos für immer verändern, sondern auch die Frage nach dem Sinn des Lebens beantworten. Doch niemand kennt den Sender der Botschaft, und niemand weiß, ob seine Absichten friedlich sind.

Die Fortsetzung der SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Reiheum die »Lange Erde« jetzt im Taschenbuch.2045-2059: Während sich die Menschheit auf ihrem Heimatplaneten weiterentwickelt, schreitet auch die Besiedelung der unendlich vielen Welten der Langen Erde voran. Lobsang, der als künstliche Intelligenz über Jahrzehnte die Lange Erde erforscht hat, lebt inzwischen als Mensch getarnt auf einer exotischen, weit entfernten Erde. Dort glaubt er, ein »normales« Leben führen zu können. Doch irgendetwas stimmt mit dieser Kopie der Erde nicht. Gemeinsam mit dem zu Hilfe gerufenen Joshua entdeckt Lobsang, dass sich ein unbekannter Planet in einer der Welten der Langen Erde verfangen hat. Mit wenig erfreulichen Aussichten für deren Bewohner ...

Diese Anthologie versammelt die besten und unterhaltsamsten Essays, Artikel und Reden Terry Pratchetts. Hier findet man alles, was ihn im Lauf seines Lebens bewegt hat: Erinnerungen an seine Großmutter, Gedanken zu Gandalfs Liebesleben oder die Frage, welche Bücher, sein eigenes Werk inspiriert haben. Er spricht über seine Liebe zu Weihnachten, gibt Einblicke in seine Schulzeit oder verrät, zu welcher Tageszeit man am besten schreibt. Selbst die ernsten Themen, denen er sich widmet, sind stets durchdrungen vom Humor und der Lebensklugheit dieses wundervollen Autors.