![]() Terry Pratchett (Author), Bill Nighy, Jon Culshaw, Peter Serafinowicz (Narrator) © Terry and Lyn Pratchett 2005 (P) Penguin Audio 2023 The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Thud! is the seventh book in the City Watch series. and at six o'clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, he must go home to read 'Where's My Cow?', with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy. With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution. Koom Valley, the ancient battle where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls, was a long time ago.īut if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office. You couldn't say 'we re the good guys' and do bad-guy things.' And if you did it for a good reason, you'd do it for a bad one. Thud!: (Discworld Novel 34): from the bestselling series that inspired BBC’s The Watch ![]() ĭouglas Adams, Terry Jones (Author), Bill Nighy (Narrator) In just ten seconds, the whole stupendous enterprise is over. The following morning, while the galaxy's media looks on, the fabulous ship eases away from the construction dock, picks up speed, sways a little, wobbles a bit, veers wildly and, just before it can do untold damage to everything around it, appears to undergo SMEF (Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure). Before the launch Leovinus is having one last little look round and begins to find that things just aren't right: poor workmanship, cybersystems out of control, robots walking into doors. Terry Pratchett (Author), Bill Nighy, Jason Isaacs, Peter Serafinowicz (Narrator)įrom the minds of Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and Terry Jones (Monty Python) comes Starship Titanic, the hilarious novelization of the third-best adventure game of 1999.Īt the centre of the galaxy, a vast, unknown civilization is preparing for an event of epic proportions: the launch of the greatest, most gorgeous, most technologically advanced spaceship ever built - the Starship Titanic.Īn Earthling would see the ship as something really, really big, but rather less provincial onlookers would recognize it as the design of Leovinus, the galaxy's most renowned architect. © Terry and Lyn Pratchett 1990 (P) Penguin Audio 2023 'Cracking dialogue, compelling illogic and unchained whimsy' Sunday Times The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Moving Pictures is a standalone novel. They're about to discover that the magic of the silver screen might be powerful enough to put an end to, well, everything. Can handle a sword a little') and Theda Withel ('I come from a little town you've probably never heard of') as they battle the forces of evil and cinema advertising. But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood hill? As the cliches of Tinsel Town pour into the world, it's up to the Disc's first film stars to find out. Here, the most important thing is to be important.'Ĭameras roll, for the first time, on the Discworld when alchemists discover the excitement of the silver screen. Everywhere else the most important things are gods or money or cattle.
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