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THE SHOW MUST GO ON, AS MURDER, MUSIC AND MAYHEM RUN RIOT IN THE NIGHT... The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork...a huge, rambling building, where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by a strangely-familiar evil mastermind in a hideously-deformed evening dress... At least, he hopes so. But Granny Weatherwax, Discworld''s most famous witch, is in the audience. And she doesn''t hold with that sort of thing. So there''s going to be trouble (but nevertheless a good evening''s entertainment with murders you can really hum)

La segunda entrega de una serie escrita a cuatro manos por el aclamado Terry Pratchett, creador delMundodisco, y el prestigioso autor de ciencia ficción británica, Stephen Baxter: una nueva aventura tan inteligente como divertida, que indaga las consecuencias de un mundo ilimitado.La Tierra Larga es un sinfin de mundos paralelos a solo un paso de distancia. La humanidad ha explorado muchos de ellos, impulsando el comercio y la cultura. Pero tambien ha alterado el equilibrio politico de nuestra tierra de origen y la estabilidad ecologica de estos nuevos mundos. Por un lado, la Declaracion de Independencia de una lejana colonia provoca la censura del gobierno ultraconservador. Por otro, los humanos han descubierto que los trolls, unos pacificos humanoides capaces de cambiar de mundo, son muy utiles para el trabajo fisico y los utilizan para su beneficio. Ante el inexorable avance de los colonos humanos, los trolls estan empezando a desaparecer.En su dia, Joshua Valiente lidero la primera mision de exploracion de estos mundos multiples junto con la unidad de inteligencia artificial llamada Lobsang. Ahora, una decada despues, Joshua se vera obligado a abandonar su vida apacible con su mujer e hijo. La Tierra Larga recurre de nuevo a el porque se avecina una guerra... una guerra distinta a todas las libradas hasta ahora.Reseñas:Alquimia literaria.SFXLa calidez y la humanidad de Pratchett se alian con la extraordinariamente fertil imaginacion de Baxter.The GuardianEn los blogs...Una novela que deja con ganas de mas.BlogSagacomic-LothlorienEs ligero gracias a su narracion y te engancha impidiendote soltar el libro hasta que lo acabas.BlogEl Imperio de las Bellotas

Terry Pratchett''s hilarious fourth Discworld novel established once and for all that Death really is a laughing matter...It is known as the Discworld. It is a flat planet, supported on the backs of four elephants, who in turn stand on the back of the great turtle A''Tuin as it swims majestically through space. And it is quite possibly the funniest place in all of creation...Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job.After being assured that being dead was not compulsory, Mort accepted. However, he soon found that romantic longings did not mix easily with the responsibilities of being Death''s apprentice.

2045-2059. After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth, and society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to evolve.Now an elderly and cantankerous AI, Lobsang lives in disguise with Agnes in an exotic, far-distant world. Hes convinced theyre leading a normal life in New Springfield they even adopt a child but it seems they have been guided there for a reason. As rumours of strange sightings and hauntings proliferate, it becomes clear that something is very awry with this particular world.Millions of steps away, Joshua is on a personal journey of discovery: learning about the father he never knew and a secret family history. But then he receives a summons from New Springfield. Lobsang now understands the enormity of whats taking place beneath the surface of his earth a threat to all the worlds of the Long Earth.To counter this threat will require the combined efforts of humankind, machine and the super-intelligent Next. And some must make the ultimate sacrifice . .

Ankh-Morpork! City of One Thousand Surprises (according to the famous publication by the Guild of Merchants)! All human life is there! Although, if it walks down the wrong alley, often quite briefly! The city celebrated in the bestselling Discworld series by Terry Pratchett has been meticulously mapped for the first time. It''s all here - from Unseen University to the Shades, from major landmarks like the Patrician''s Palace to little-known, er, nooks like the Dwarf Bread Museum in Whirligig Alley. See the famous streets along which so many heroes have walked, in some cases quite hurriedly! As leading Ankh-Morpork entrepreneur C.M.O.T. Dibbler would say: A snip at any price - and that''s cutting our own throat. Well, close.

MIGHTY BATTLES! REVOLUTION! DEATH! WAR! (AND HIS SONS TERROR AND PANIC, AND DAUGHTER CLANCY) The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought on by the revolutionary treatise What I did on My Holidays. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. War (and Clancy) are spreading through the ancient cities. And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is: Rincewind the Wizard, who can''t even spell the word ''wizard''... Cohen the barbarian hero, five feet tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime''s experience of not dying... and a very special butterfly

The final collection of short stories from the incredible Sir Terry Pratchett!*Imagination is an amazing thing. It can take you to the top of the highest mountain, or down to the bottom of the deepest depths of the sea. This where it took Doggins on his Awfully Big Adventure: a quest full of magic and flying machines.(And the world's best joke - trust me, it's hilarious.)It took three young inventors to the moon (where they may or may not have left a bottle of lemonade) and a caveman on a trip to the dentist. You can join them on these adventures, and many more, in this incredible collection of stories . .. From the greatest imagination there ever was. Written for local newspapers when Terry Pratchett was a young lad, these never previously published stories are packed full of anarchic humour and wonderful wit.A must-have for Terry fans . . .and young readers looking for a fix of magic.

A collection of three of the author''s "Discworld" novels; "Equal Rites", "Wyrd Sisters" and "Witches Abroad", that feature the characters Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrit Garlick.