Discworld · Book 34

Thud!

by Terry Pratchett

Published
9 September 2005
Pages
398
ISBN-13
9780060888541
Type
novel

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About this book

The 34th Discworld novel, "Thud!" (2005) runs 398 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

Thud! is book 34 in the Discworld series. It follows Going Postal. It is followed by Wintersmith. 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…

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