Mundodisco es un mundo y también un espejo de mundos. Éste no es un libro sobre Australia, sino sobre un país totalmente distinto que, sin embargo y por pura casualidad, en ciertos aspectos resulta un poco... australiano. El pais del fin del mundo es la vigesima segunda entrega de la mundialmente exitosa serie de Mundodisco, uno de los hallazgos mas fecundos y desternillantes de la ciencia ficcion actual.
A slightly disorganized and somewhat naive interplanetary tourist named Twosome joins up with a bumbling wizard and embarks on a chaotic voyage through a world filled with monsters and dragons, heroe
In this side-splitting satire, a professor at Unseen University is missing. But never fear, for a bevy of wizards will follow his trail, even to the other side of Discworld, a magical land where the Last Continent is under construction. Awaiting the wizards are Mad Dwarf, Death, Death of Rats, and the dreaded Meat Pie Floater.
Imagine a million clever rats. Rats that don't run. Rats that fight...Maurice, a scruffy tomcat with an eye for the main chance, has the perfect fiddle going. He has a stupid-looking kid for a piper, and he has his very own plague of rats - rats who are strangely educated, so Maurice can no longer think of them as 'lunch'. And everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers - and is giving him lots of money...Until they try the trick in the far-flung town of Bad Blintz, and the nice little con suddenly goes down the drain. Someone there is playing a different tune. A dark, shadowy tune. Something very, very bad is waiting in the cellars. The rats must learn a new word. Evil. It's not a game any more. It's definitely a rat-eat-rat world down there. In fact, that might only be the start...Bestselling novelist Terry Pratchett leads readers from tale to tail in a darkly imaginative and fiendishly entertaining story, the first for younger readers set in the Discworld universe, the setting of his phenomenally successful fantasy novels.
El Mundodisco es un planeta como otro cualquiera, solo que diferente. Es plano y se sujeta sobre cuatro elefantes que a su vez se sostienen sobre el caparazón de Gran A’Tuin, la tortuga más grande qu
TIME IS A RESOURCE. EVERYONE KNOWS IT HAS TO BE MANAGED. And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where its wasted (like underwater how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities where theres never enough time. But the construction of the worlds first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will only be the start of everyones problems. Thief of Time comes complete with a full supporting cast of heroes and villains, yetis, martial artists and Ronnie, the fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (who left before they became famous).
Una nueva entrega de la saga Mundodisco, la serie de ciencia ficción más desternillante de todos los tiempos. En esta ocasión los problemas recaen sobre los hombres de Brutha, el Elegido, un muchacho sencillo y analfabeto que, ungido al poder involuntariamente, debe verselas con la terrible Inquisicion y con una guerra en toda regla. Pero por fortuna, siempre hay un Dios de pacotilla dispuesto a echar una mano...
La Muerte nos visita a todos; cuando visitó a Mort, le ofreció trabajo. Pero cuando Mort se queda al cargo durante una noche, no puede evitar que su corazón se imponga sobre la razón y, como consecuencia, el Principio de Causalidad e incluso el futuro del Mundodisco se encuentran en peligro. Mort no solo conoce a la hija adoptiva de la Muerte, Ysabell que conserva la edad de dieciseis años desde hace treinta y cinco, y a Albert sirviente misterioso cuya comida es capaz de fulminarte con solo mirarla, sino tambien a un mago inepto con un picaporte parlante y a una bella princesa algo malhumorada y completamente muerta. Y, por descontado, tambien conoce a la Muerte. En el Mundodisco de Terry Pratchett, la Muerte es realmente un esqueleto de mas de dos metros, viste tunica y capucha negras y empuña una guadaña. Pero tambien le gustan los gatos, el curry y cabalga a traves de los cielos montado en un magnifico corcel blanco llamado Binky.
