Discworld · Book 26
Thief of Time
- Published
- 1 January 2001
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9781804990414
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published 2001 at 384 pages, "Thief of Time" is Discworld's 26th 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
Thief of Time is book 26 in the Discworld series. It follows The Truth. It is followed by The Last Hero. 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 9783442457397
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781804990414