Discworld · Book 40
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.
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