Discworld · Book 8
Guards! Guards!
- Published
- 1 November 1989
- Pages
- 378
- ISBN-13
- 9780552134620
- Type
- novel
About this book
"Guards! Guards!" (1989, 378 pages) launches the City Watch strand -- Sam Vimes and Ankh-Morpork's police, widely called fantasy's greatest cop shop and the most common recommendation for adult readers starting Discworld. It's the eighth novel in the series.
Its place in Discworld
Guards! Guards! is book 8 in the Discworld series. It follows Pyramids. It is followed by Eric. 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 9780753106976
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780552134620