Discworld · Book 32
A Hat Full of Sky
- Published
- 1 January 2004
- Pages
- 351
- ISBN-13
- 9780060824662
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published 2004 at 351 pages, "A Hat Full of Sky" is Discworld's 32nd entry, continuing Pratchett's use of the Disc -- and its dragons, golems and the personification of Death -- to satirise policing, religion, journalism, banking and belief.
Its place in Discworld
A Hat Full of Sky is book 32 in the Discworld series. It follows Monstrous Regiment. It is followed by Going Postal. See the full Discworld reading order.
Discworld is Terry Pratchett's forty-one-novel comic masterpiece, set on a flat world carried through space on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle. What begins in The Colour of Magic (1983) as straight fantasy parody — an inept wizard escorting the Disc's first tourist — evolves into something far richer: a mirror held up to our own world, where Pratchett uses dragons, golems and the anthropomorphic personification of Death (WHO SPEAKS LIKE THIS and is fond of cats) to write about policing…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9782841723881
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780060824662