Discworld · Book 17
Interesting Times
- Published
- 1 January 1994
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9781804990261
- Type
- novel
About this book
"Interesting Times" (1994) continues Terry Pratchett's Discworld at 352 pages, the 17th novel in a series that mixes straight fantasy trappings with sharp satire of policing, religion, war and belief.
Its place in Discworld
Interesting Times is book 17 in the Discworld series. It follows Soul Music. It is followed by Maskerade. 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 9788071971580
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781804990261