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The third Discworld novel. They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. There are some situations where the correct response is to display the sort of ignorance which happily and wilfully flies in the face of the facts. In this case, the birth of a baby girl, born a wizard -- by mistake. Everybody knows that there''s no such thing as a female wizard. But now it''s gone and happened, there''s nothing much anyone can do about it. Let the battle of the sexes begin.

Mundodisco, el lugar fantástico e imaginario que sirve de escenario a la saga de novelas homónimas, está en guerra. Todo empieza con la disputa por unos peces y sigue por la posesión de una isla que emerge de repente en medio del mar. A partir de esta situacion surrealista, Pratchett incide con ironia en la inutilidad de las guerras, la xenofobia, el racismo y el sexismo. Esta hilarante obra satirica sobre el falso patriotismo y los conflictos armados actuales forma parte de una extensa saga que ha vendido millones de libros en todo el mundo. En el Reino Unido se situa inmediatamente despues de la afamada J K Rowling, autora de Harry Potter.

Una tribu de diminutos gnomos se encuentran, dadas las dificultades del medio en el que viven, al borde de la extinción y deciden trasladarse. Un camión los lleva a unos grandes almacenes, donde encuentran otra comunidad de congéneres. En los siguientes libros, los gnomos deben defenderse con una excavadora de la intrusión de los humanos en la cantera donde habían encontrado nuevo acomodo, y volar en avión a Florida con el fin de hallar la forma de encontrar la vieja nave espacial.

It''s an offer you can''t refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork''s Royal Mint and the bank next door? It''s a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There''s something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), it turns out that the Royal Mint runs at a loss. A 300 year old wizard is after his girlfriend, he''s about to be exposed as a fraud, but the Assassins Guild might get him first. In fact lot of people want him dead. Oh. And ...

Convertido en diplomático, el irrepetible Samuel Vimes parte en misión hacia la peligrosa tierra de los enanos…Dicen que la tierra es plana y se sustenta a lomos de cuatro elefantes que están encima del caparazón de una tortuga. Dicen que había un quinto elefante, y lo que ocurrió con él ha pasado a formar parte de la leyenda… En esta nueva entrega de la subserie de «La Guardia», el querido Samuel Vimes, a quien acaban de nombrar representante diplomático, debe viajar a Überwald, una tierra gobernada por hombres lobo, enanos y vampiros. Su misión no augura nada bueno: en cuanto Vimes llega, se las tiene que ver con los disturbios entre bandas de enanos rivales y resolver el robo del roscón de piedra, entre otras menudencias.

Unos vampiros muy peculiares están a punto de apoderarse de Lancre, pero las tres brujas de este reino no están dispuestas a cruzarse de brazos.Esta es la novela número 23 de la alocada y lúcida serie de Mundodisco. Una sucesion ininterrumpida de situaciones hilarantes y sarcasticas reflexiones en torno a una familia de vampiros que se ha propuesto modernizar el anquilosado reino de Lancre. Se han hecho inmunes a los ajos y las cruces y nadie se les puede resistir, salvo las tres incomparables brujas, Agnes, Tata Ogg y Magrat Ajostiernos. ¿Lograran vencer a los ambiciosos mordedores de cuellos?Terry Pratchett esta considerado uno de los mejores escritores satiricos en lengua inglesa, en la linea de Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens o Lewis Carroll.Una jocosa parodia de la literatura y el cine de vampiros que nos hace reflexionar sobre la religion catolica y los conflictos eticos del ser humano.

A Johnny, un amigo le ha dejado el nuevo juego de ordenador, Sólo tú puedes salvar a la humanidad. Cuando se dispone a salvarla destruyendo las naves de los ScreeWees, aparece en la pantalla un mensaje: Nos rendimos. No queremos mas guerras Johnny dialoga con la Capitana e, impresionado por las razones que le da, decide no atacarles y ayudarles a retirarse a su lugar de origen, donde estaran a salvo. Asi se ve envuelto en una emocionante aventura espacial que comparte con tres amigos y una chica fuera de lo comun. Todo ello le hara reflexionar sobre la guerra, la paz, la violencia injustificada, la igualdad entre los sexos, la solidaridad... y saldra renovado de esta insolita aventura.

Imagine a flat world, sitting on the backs of four elephants, who hurtle through space balanced on a giant turtle. The Discworld is a place (and a time) parallel to our own - but also very different. That is the setting for Terry Pratchett''s phenomenally successful Discworld series, which now celebrates its 25th anniversary. The Discworld Graphic Novels presents the very first two volumes of this much-loved series in graphic novel form. First published fifteen years ago, these fully illustrated versions are now issued for the first time in hardback. Introduced here are the bizarre misadventures of Twoflower, the Discworld''s first ever tourist, and possibly - portentously - its last, and his guide Rincewind, the spectacularly inept wizard.Not to mention the Luggage, which has a mind of its own.

Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers. But just because the Disc is different doesn't mean that some things don't stay the same. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the arrival of the first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. But if the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries and, well, Death is a spectacularly inept wizard, a little logic might turn out to be a very good idea..."The Colour of Magic" is the first novel in Terry Pratchett's acclaimed Discworld series, which has become one of the most popular and celebrated sequences in English literature.

Discworld's only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork's denizens. This would-be Faust is very bad...at his work, that is. All he wants is to fulfill three little wishes:to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a stylin' hot babe. But Eric isn't even good at getting his own way. Instead of a powerful demon, he conjures, well, Rincewind, a wizard whose incompetence is matched only by Eric's. And as if that wasn't bad enough, that lovable travel accessory the Luggage has arrived, too. Accompanied by his best friends, there's only one thing Eric wishes now -- that he'd never been born!

''Look after the dead'', said the priests, ''and the dead will look after you.''Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when, like Teppic, you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country rather earlier than expected, and your treasury is unlikely to stretch to the building of a monumental pyramid to honour your dead father.Hed had the best education money could buy of course, but unfortunately the syllabus at the Assassin''s Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not cover running a kingdom and basic financial acumen...

All this books and stuff, that isn''t what it should all be about. What we need is real wizardry.There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we''d better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son... a wizard squared...a source of magic...a Sourcerer.Unseen University has finally got what it wished for: the most powerful wizard on the disc. Which, unfortunately, could mean that the death of all wizardry is at hand. And that the world is going to end, depending on whom you listen to. Unless of course one inept wizard can take the University''s most precious artefact, the very embodiment of magic itself, and deliver it halfway across the disc to safety...

La máquina de vapor llega a Ankh-Morpork, y con ella el progreso y sus conflictos. 40ª novela de la aclamadísima serie Mundodisco.El progreso ha llegado al Mundodisco a lomos de una locomotora de vapor. Sus habitantes acuden en masa a admirar el revolucionario prodigio de la tecnica, obra de un joven inventor autodidacta llamado Dick Simnel. Inmediatamente, lord Vetinari decide apropiarse de la maquina y nombra a Humedo von Mustachen, su hombre para todo, responsable de la operacion. Entretanto estalla una revuelta politica entre los enanos, que planean atentar contra su rey y sabotear el ferrocarril. Von Mustachen tendra que esquivar muchos escollos para evitar que todo descarrile.Desde hace mas de tres decadas, Terry Pratchett ha fascinado a millones de lectores de todo el mundo con sus novelas fantasticas, divertidas y satiricas ambientadas en el Mundodisco, un universo fantastico profundamente original que guarda un sospechoso parecido con el nuestro.A todo vapor es la cuadragesima entrega de esta serie tan emblematica y longeva como popular, cuyo siguiente y ultimo volumen se publico en ingles en agosto de 2015 y saldra en castellano en 2016. No solo resulta ser un autentico placer para los lectores, como las entregas anteriores, sino que tambien nos da un nuevo y original ejemplo del sentido del humor, la imaginacion y la capacidad critica de Terry Pratchett para retratar, sin perder la sonrisa, los vicios de nuestra sociedad.Terry Pratchett fue uno de los mejores escritores de fantasia que han existido, y sin duda el mas divertido.George R.R. MartinTerry Pratchett trajo mas alegria a mi vida que ningun otro autor.Patrick RothfussTerry Pratchett deja un legado enorme capaz de entretener, pensar y hacer reir. Y eso no es poco logro.Juan Gomez Jurado,ABCReseñas sobreA todo vapor:Divertido, listo e inteligente a partes iguales.NewsdayComo siempre, los personajes inolvidables de Pratchett y la animada historia reflejan lo mejor, lo peor y lo mas extraño de nuestro propio mundo. Entretiene a los lectores y, a la vez, ridiculiza las debilidades sociales y las politicas en un crisol de humanos, enanos, trolls, duendes, vampiros y un hombre lobo, o dos.Publishers WeeklyLa creacion de Terry Pratchett se mantiene fuerte despues de 30 años, a medida que Ankh-Morpork se adentra en la era del ferrocarril.The Times

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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...