Raising Steam
- Published
- 7 November 2013
- Pages
- 408
- ISBN-13
- 9780385538268
- Type
- novel
About this book
The 40th Discworld novel, "Raising Steam" (2013) runs 408 pages and belongs to a series famous for the fact that readers can begin it in a dozen different places -- each Pratchett satire aimed at some real-world institution refracted through the Disc.
Key facts about Raising Steam
Raising Steam is a novel by Terry Pratchett. Readers have had it since 7 November 2013. It runs to 408 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of Raising Steam. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780385538268 to find the main one.
Raising Steam is book 40 of 41 in the Discworld series. The series has 41 published books. However, the series starts with The Colour of Magic (1983). The Shepherd's Crown is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 27 August 2015.
Additionally, Terry Pratchett writes The Bromeliad Trilogy, The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy and The Long Earth as separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy and science fiction shelves. Meanwhile, The Long Cosmos is the latest published Terry Pratchett book on file, from 30 June 2016.
About Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett was an English author whose Discworld series became one of the most beloved and best-selling comic fantasy works in the language, running to forty-one novels published between 1983 and his death in 2015. See every Terry Pratchett book in order.
Its place in Discworld
Raising Steam is book 40 in the Discworld series. It follows Snuff. It is followed by The Shepherd's Crown. 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 9788466341653
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780385538268