DOM SALABOS HAD A LOT OF ADVANTAGESAs heir to a huge fortune, he had an excellent 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...

Published in Britain at the end of 1986, this and its "prequel" (The Colour of Magic, above) were among the top five best-selling books on the 1986 Andromeda list. Moreover, Pratchett was Andromeda's best-selling author for the same...

They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did, before Death laid a bony hand on his shoulder, was to pass on his staff of power to the...

Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into . . . a government job?By all rights, Moist should be meeting his maker rather than being offered a...

Witches are not by nature gregarious, and they certainly don't have leaders. Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have. But even "she" found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more difficult...

The wizards at Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University are renowned for many things?wisdom, magic, and their love of teatime?but athletics is most assuredly not on the list. So when Lord Vetinari, the city's benevolent tyrant, strongly suggests...

Zwei Scheibenweltromane auf einen Streich!In »Wachen! Wachen!« soll ein Drache eine geheime Bruderschaft an die Macht bringen. Doch er herrscht lieber selbst über die Goldreserven der Stadt, auf denen es sich prima schlummern lässt. Wird...

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...

'Darkness isn't the opposite of light, it is simply its absence . . . what was radiating from the book was the light that lies on the far side of darkness, the light fantastic.'The Discworld is in danger, heading towards a seemingly...

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"Guards! Guards!" ist ein humorvoller Fantasy-Roman von Terry Pratchett und Teil der beliebten Scheibenwelt-Reihe. Die Geschichte spielt in der Stadt Ankh-Morpork, einer chaotischen Metropole voller Magie und skurriler Charaktere. Der...

"La huitième couleur" ist die französische Übersetzung von Terry Pratchetts Roman "The Colour of Magic", der erste Teil seiner berühmten Discworld-Serie. Das Buch folgt den Abenteuern von Rincewind, einem unfähigen Zauberer, und seinem...