検索キーワード： 著者 "Terry Pratchett" すべてのカテゴリー

Die Zauberer der Unsichtbaren Universität haben sich bereits vielen Herausforderungen stellen müssen, einem Fußballspiel allerdings noch nie. Doch nun hat der neue Meister der Tradition eine erschreckende Entdeckung gemacht: Wenn die Zauberer nicht sofort eine Fußballmannschaft gründen, verlieren sie den Anspruch auf eine üppige Geldspende. Es hilft alles nichts: Elf Sportsfreunde müssen her. Doch als endlich das große Spiel ansteht, das die Zauberer ganz ohne Magie bestreiten müssen, geht es schon lange nicht mehr nur um Fußball.

Los alquimistas del Mundodisco están haciendo de las suyas nuevamente. Esta vez han descubierto el secreto para obtener oro de la plata... o, mejor dicho, de la pantalla plateada. Y siguiendo el canto de sirena de Holly Wood estará Victor Tugelbend, un proyecto de mago reconvertido a figurante. No canta, no baila, pero sabe manejar la espada (un poco) y ahora quiere ser famoso. También acudirá Theda Wuthel, una mujer ambiciosa proveniente de una pequeña ciudad de la que probablemente nadie haya oído hablar nunca.

A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett's long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press and the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People, and on again to the dizzy mastery of the phenomenally successful Discworld series.

Una antología de cuentos recuperados de la pluma de sir Terry Pratchett: uno de los autores más aclamados, premiados y queridos del mundo.

Un clásico de la comedia. Según Las Buenas y Acertadas profecías de Agnes la Chalada Bruja (el único libro fiable de profecías, escrito en 1655, antes de que ella explotara), el fin del mundo tendrá lugar el sábado. El próximo sábado, para ser exactos. Justo antes de la hora de la cena. Los ejércitos del Bien y del Mal se están agrupando, la Atlántida está resurgiendo, llueven sapos y los ánimos están algo alterados así que... todo parece ajustarte al Plan Divino.

Being 16 is always difficult, even more so when there's a Death in the family. After all, it's hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe. Especially if he decides to take a well-earned moment to uncover the meaning of life and discover himself in the process, so that you have to take over the family business, and everyone mistakes you for the Tooth Fairy.

Death has been fired by the Auditors of Reality for the heinous crime of developing…a personality. Sent to live like everyone else, Death takes a new name and begins working as a farmhand. He's got the scythe already, after all. And for humanity, Death is just…gone. Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn. If Death doesn't come for you, then what are you supposed to do in the meantime? You can't have the undead wandering about like lost souls—there's no telling what might happen.

Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. You mess with it at your peril. You can let it move fast or slowly, but what you mustn't do is allow it to stop. The Monks of History have the glamorous job of time management in the Discworld. They store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like underwater—how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time. But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd.

Un nuevo miembro de la hermandad de asesinos hereda el reino de Djelibeyi, conocido por sus monumentales pirámides y el glorioso hecho de que dentro de sus fronteras nada ha cambiado en 1.500 años. Sin embargo, el nuevo monarca no está dispuesto a que las cosas sigan igual.

Johnny Maxwell nimmt eine Abkürzung über den örtlichen Friedhof, um nach Haus zu kommen. Da trifft er plötzlich auf den Geist von Thomas Bowler, ehemals Ratsherr der Stadt. Kurz darauf bemerkt Johnny, dass er mit den Geistern der Toten kommunizieren kann. Die verstorbenen Bewohner des Friedhofs klagen über den Plan der Stadt, den vernachlässigten Friedhof von Blackbury an ein Immobilien-Konsortium zu verschachern. Der Friedhof soll verschwinden und Bürogebäuden Platz machen. Johnny soll helfen, diese Pläne zu stoppen.

Johnny, 12 Jahre alt, hat von seinem Freund Wobbler Johnson eine Piratenausgabe des neuen Computerspiels "Nur du kannst die Menschheit retten" erhalten. Nach kurzer Zeit will das ScreeWee-Imperium aus dem Spiel kaputulieren. Johnny ist verwundert. Die Welt des Spiels taucht plötzlich in seinen Träumen auf. Johnny soll den Spielfiguren, die von sämtlichen Kopien des Spiels verschwunden sind, helfen, in ihre wahre Welt zurückzukehren. Dabei unterstützt ihn Kirsty, die sich Sigourney nennt: eine andere Spielerin aus Johnnys Welt.

Johnny Maxwell hat eine lebhafte Phantasie, die ihn immer wieder in die merkwürdigsten Abenteuer katapultiert. Im ersten Buch gerät er in ein Computerspiel, dessen Zielfiguren kapitulieren und sich zurückziehen wollen; im zweiten Band wollen Gespenster auf einem Friedhof verhindern, dass ihre Heimstatt an einen Immobilienmakler verschachert wird; und im dritten entdeckt Johnny einen geheimen Weg in die Vergangenheit, wo er ein schreckliches Ereignis verhindern muss.

Als Johnny in der Nähe eines Kinos die bewusstlose Mrs. Tachyon, eine obdachlose alte Dame, findet und ins Krankenhaus bringt, entdeckt er, dass es sich bei dem Einkaufswagen mit ihren Habseligkeiten um eine Zeitmaschine handelt. Mithilfe dieses Trolleys kehrt Johnny in die Zeit des Zweiten Weltkriegs zurück. Ihn begleiten seine Freunde Stephen, auch bekannt als Wobbler, Bigmac, Kirsty und Yo-less. Sie finden sich 1941 in Johnnys Heimatstadt Blackbury wieder, grade als ein deutscher Luftangriff droht. Johnny versucht, die tödliche Bombardierung abzuwenden.

William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life - people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.

The Royal Bank is facing a crisis, and it's time for a change of management. There are a few problems that may arise with the job.... The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire - there's something nameless in the cellar and it turns out that the Royal Mint runs at a loss. Meanwhile, people actually want to know where the money's gone. It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, that life is not necessarily a long one. He's about to be exposed as a fraud, but if he's lucky the Assassins' Guild might get him first.

Women belong in the kitchen - everyone knows that. Not in jobs, pubs or indeed trousers, and certainly not on the front line. Nonetheless, Polly Perks has to become a boy in a hurry if she wants to find her missing brother in the army. Cutting off her hair and wearing the trousers is easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape takes more time. There's a war on. There's always a war on, and Polly and her fellow raw recruits are suddenly in the thick of it. All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army and a vampire with a lust for coffee.

Change is in the air for Moist von Lipwig, swindler, con-man and (naturally) head of the Royal Bank and Post Office. A steaming, clanging new invention - a steam locomotive named Iron Girder, to be precise - is drawing astonished crowds. Suddenly it's a matter of national importance that the trains run on time. Moist does not enjoy hard work. His input at the bank and post office consists mainly of words, which are not that heavy. Or greasy. And it certainly doesn't involve rickety bridges, runaway cheeses or a fat controller with knuckledusters.

'Look after the dead,' said the priests, 'and the dead will look after you.' Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when, like Teppic, you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country rather earlier than expected, and your treasury is unlikely to stretch to the building of a monumental pyramid to honour your dead father. He'd had the best education money could buy of course, but unfortunately the syllabus at the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not cover running a kingdom and basic financial acumen....

Moist von Lipwig is a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put the ailing postal service of Ankh-Morpork back on its feet. It's a tough decision. The post is a creaking old institution, overshadowed by new technology. But there are people who still believe in it and Moist must become one of them if he's going to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers Friendly and Benevolent Society, an evil chairman...and a midnight killer. Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too.

A wonderful collection of short stories by master storyteller Sir Terry Pratchett, featuring dragons, dinosaurs, cavemen and car races! Dragons have invaded Crumbling Castle, and all of King Arthur's knights are either on holiday or visiting their grannies. It's a disaster! Luckily, there's a spare suit of armour and a very small boy called Ralph who's willing to fill it. Together with Fortnight the Friday knight and Fossfiddle the wizard, Ralph sets out to defeat the fearsome fire-breathers.