En un mundo plano sostenido por cuatro elefantes impasibles -que se apoyan en la espalda de una tortuga gigante- habitan los estrafalarios personajes de esta novela: un hechicero avaro y torpe, un turista ingenuo cuyo fiero equipaje le sigue a todas partes sostenido por cientos de patitas, dragones que existen si se cree en ellos, gremios de ladrones y asesinos, espadas mágicas, la Muerte y, por supuesto, un extenso catálogo de magos y demonios... En esta serie de novelas se dan cita todos los temas y situaciones del género fantástico, visto a través del personalismo y corrosivo sentido de la comicidad de un autor inglés que se ha convertido en uno de los escritores de humor de mayor éxito y fama en el mundo.
Mundodisco Serie
Mundodisco es una serie de fantasía satírica ambientada en un planeta plano que se sostiene sobre el caparazón de una tortuga gigante. La serie sigue a varios personajes que lidian con la magia, la política y situaciones absurdas. El autor Terry Pratchett crea un mundo único lleno de humor y crítica social. Cada entrega trae nuevas historias y personajes que se vuelven icónicos
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La luz fantástica
- 276 páginas
- 10 horas de lectura
Un nuevo día, sereno y apacible, empieza en Mundo Disco. Como es habitual, la gran tortuga navega por el éter entregada a reflexiones inescrutables, sosteniendo en su caparazón a los cuatro elefantes sobre los que descansa el mundo. Sin embargo, se avecina una inexorable colisión con una malévola estrella roja, y sólo una persona puede poner remedio al inminente desastre: Rincewind, el inepto y cobarde hechicero. Por desgracia, Rincewind fue visto por última vez cuando caía por el borde del mundo... Esta serie de novelas está considerada la más divertida y heterodoxa saga fantástica jamás escrita. Como ha señalado la crítica, las novelas de Terry Pratchett deberían ser lectura obligada para aquellos que se toman la vida demasiado en serio.
‘Persistently amusing, good-hearted and shrewd’ The Sunday Times The Discworld is very much like our own – if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not half so bad as a lot of ignorance. The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did, before Death laid a bony hand on his shoulder, was to pass on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately for his colleagues in the chauvinistic (not to say misogynistic) world of magic, he failed to check that the baby in question was a son. Everybody knows that there's no such thing as a female wizard. But now it's gone and happened, there's nothing much anyone can do about it. Let the battle of the sexes begin . . . ____________________ The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Equal Rites is the first book in the Witches series.
Mort
- 285 páginas
- 10 horas de lectura
Cuarta novela de la hilarante saga del Mundodisco. En esta entrega, Mortimer es un joven soñador y despistado a quien le toca en suerte una inesperada tarea: convertirse en aprendiz de la Muerte y aplicarse en liberar almas de su envoltura carnal. A decir verdad, Mort no está demasiado capacitado para ello, y en una de sus primeras misiones, liberar el alma de una atractiva princesa que está a punto de ser asesinada, decide en su lugar «liberar» el alma del asesino, interfiriendo así en los designios del destino y provocando el consiguiente desaguisado. Por su parte, la Muerte, habiendo delegado buena parte de su trabajo en Mort, se dedica a beber, jugar a los dados y embarcarse en enrevesadas reflexiones filosóficas...
Sourcery
- 334 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we'd better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son... a wizard squared...a source of magic...a Sourcerer. SOURCERY SEES THE RETURN OF RINCEWIND AND THE LUGGAGE AS THE DISCWORLD FACES ITS GREATEST - AND FUNNIEST - CHALLENGE YET.
Wyrd sisters
- 368 páginas
- 13 horas de lectura
Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folks; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle. Three witches gathered on a lonely heath. A king cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. A child heir and the crown of the kingdom, both missing. Witches don't have these kind of dynastic problems themselves - in fact, they don't have leaders. Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have. But even she found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more complicated than certain playwrights would have you believe, particularly when the blood on your hands just won't wash off and you're facing a future with knives in it ..
Pyramids
- 380 páginas
- 14 horas de lectura
Being trained by the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not fit Teppic for the task assigned to him by fate. He inherited the throne of the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi rather earlier than he expected (his father wasn't too happy about it either), but that was only the beginning of his problems.
Guards! Guards!
- 432 páginas
- 16 horas de lectura
First book of the original and best CITY WATCH series, now reinterpreted in BBC's The Watch 'This is one of Pratchett's best books. Hilarious and highly recommended' The Times The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . _________________ 'It was the usual Ankh-Morpork mob in times of crisis; half of them were here to complain, a quarter of them were here to watch the other half, and the remainder were here to rob, importune or sell hotdogs to the rest.' Insurrection is in the air in the city of Ankh-Morpork. The Haves and Have-Nots are about to fall out all over again. Captain Sam Vimes of the city's ramshackle Night Watch is used to this. It's enough to drive a man to drink. Well, to drink more. But this time, something is different - the Have-Nots have found the key to a dormant, lethal weapon that even they don't fully understand, and they're about to unleash a campaign of terror on the city. Time for Captain Vimes to sober up.
Eric
- 152 páginas
- 6 horas de lectura
Eric es el aspirante a demonólogo del Mundodisco. Lástima que no se le dé muy bien. Todo lo que pide es que se le concedan tres deseos: el dominio sobre todos los reinos del mundo, la mujer más bella que haya existido jamás y vivir por toda la eternidad. Vamos, lo de siempre. Solo tendría que chasquear los dedos... si hubiera invocado al ser adecuado.
Moving pictures
- 332 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
The alchemists of the Discworld have discovered the magic of the silver screen. But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood Hill? It’s up to Victor Tugelbend (“Can’t sing. Can’t dance. Can handle a sword a little”) and Theda Withel (“I come from a little town you’ve probably never heard of”) to find out.
El Segador
- 320 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
La muerte ha desaparecido. Se la supone... Ejem... En otro lado. Lo que lleva al tipo de caos que siempre se produce cuando un servicio público es retirado. Mientras tanto, en una pequeña granja lejos, muy lejos, un oscuro y alto extranjero está demostrando ser realmente habilidoso manejando la hoz. Hay una cosecha que recoger...
Witches Abroad
- 289 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
'Things have to come to an end, see. That's how it works when you turn the world into stories. You should never have done that. You shouldn't treat people like they was characters, like they was things. But if you do, then you've got to know where the story ends.' That's the problem when you let real life get in the way of a good story. You shouldn't let it happen. Especially when a good story involves three witches, including a fairy godmother, travelling to a faraway land to make sure that a servant girl doesn't marry a prince. It looks as though a happy ending may be averted before catastrophe strikes. But unfortunately the forces of good are up against a Godmother who has made Destiny an offer it can't refuse...
Small Gods
- 381 páginas
- 14 horas de lectura
For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him.
It's a dreamy midsummer's night in the Kingdom of Lancre. But music and romance aren't the only things filling the air. Magic and mischief are afoot, threatening to spoil the royal wedding of King Verence and his favorite witch, Magrat Garlick. Invaded by some Fairie Trash, soon it won't be only champagne that's flowing through the streets . . .
Hombres de armas
- 350 páginas
- 13 horas de lectura
La Guardia de la Ciudad necesita hombres y no faltan proclamas para reclutarlos. Sin embargo, hasta el momento, la Guardia Nocturna solo cuenta con los voluntariosos servicios del Cabo Zanahoria (técnicamente un enano), el agente Cuddy (realmente un enano), el agente Detritus (un troll), la agente Angua (una mujer… la mayor parte del tiempo) y el cabo Nobbs (descalificado de la carrera evolutiva por hacer trampas). Pero ahora nuestros protagonistas necesitan toda la ayuda que puedan conseguir. Deben hacer frente a toda costa a un asesino despiadado que se sirve de una nueva y mortífera arma y, lo que es peor, tiene un plan para devolver a la ciudad de Ankh-Morpork a su antiguo esplendor. La misión no será fácil para nuestros vigilantes. Comparado con la que se les viene encima, acabar con aquel dragón que atacó la ciudad años atrás resultó fácil. Y si la tarea es de por sí complicada incluso para un cuerpo de vigilancia normal, para la Guardia Nocturna puede convertirse, literalmente, en un auténtico quebradero de cabeza.
Soul music
- 348 páginas
- 13 horas de lectura
Hay una Muerte en la familia. Acaban de recordárselo a Susan, para su desgracia. Porque precisamente ahora la Muerte acaba de desaparecer y ella, su nieta (adoptiva), ha de encargarse del negocio familiar. Sin embargo, pese a montar el caballo blanco y empuñar la guadaña, todos parecen empeñados en querer confundirla con un hada. Y encima, también está esa Música con Rocas Dentro que se está adueñando del Mundodisco. Es nueva. Es pegadiza. Tiene ritmo y se puede bailar. Está viva... Soul Music es una historia sobre la memoria y el deseo de olvidar. Y también una historia de sexo, drogas y Música con Rocas Dentro (o, al menos, sobre una de las tres). Pero, sobre todo, es la decimosexta entrega de la serie del Mundodisco, del genial Terry Pratchett. «Hay un fenómeno en la fantasía que no se llama J.K. Rowling ni Tolkien. Se trata de Terry Pratchett. un astro del género.»-El País
Interesting times
- 352 páginas
- 13 horas de lectura
The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise What I did on My Holidays. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. Warlords are struggling for power. War (and Clancy) are spreading throughout the ancient cities.
Maskerade
- 368 páginas
- 13 horas de lectura
The Ghost in the bone-white mask who haunts the Ankh-Morpork Opera House was always considered a benign presence—some would even say lucky—until he started killing people. The sudden rash of bizarre backstage deaths now threatens to mar the operatic debut of country girl Perdita X. (nee Agnes) Nitt, she of the ample body and ampler voice. Perdita's expected to hide in the chorus and sing arias out loud while a more petitely presentable soprano mouths the notes. But at least it's an escape from scheming Nanny Ogg and old Granny Weatherwax back home, who want her to join their witchy ranks. Once Granny sets her mind on something, however, it's difficult—and often hazardous—to dissuade her. And no opera-prowling phantom fiend is going to keep a pair of determined hags down on the farm after they've seen Ankh-Morpork.
Feet of Clay
- 288 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
As autumn fogs hold Ankh-Morpok in their grip, the City Watch must find a murderer who can't be seen. The golems may know something, but they've all started to commit suicide. And on top of all this, the Watch have other problems to deal with, such as a werewolf suffering from Pre-Lunar Tension.
Hogfather
- 445 páginas
- 16 horas de lectura
There are those who believe and those who don't. Through the ages, superstition has had its uses. Nowhere more so thatn in the Discworld where it's helped to maintain the status quo. Anything that undermines superstition has to be viewed with some caution. -- back cover
Jingo
- 288 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
A new Discworld novel. A small, uninhabitable island rises from the sea, and Solid Jackson thinks he's discovered it first. But so too do the Klatchain fishermen, Akhan and Arif. There's only one answer - war!
The Last Continent
- 416 páginas
- 15 horas de lectura
Something is amiss at Unseen Unversity, Ankh-Morpork's most prestigious (i.e., only) institution of higher learning. A professor is missing—but a search party is on the way! A bevy of senior wizards will follow the trail wherever it leads—even to the other side of Discworld, where the Last Continent, Fourecks, is under construction. Imagine a magical land where rain is but a myth and the ordinary is strange and the past and present run side by side. experience the terror as you encounter a Mad Dwarf, the Peach Butt, and the dreaded Meat Pie Floater. Feel the passion as the denizens of the Last Continent learn what happens when rain falls and the rivers fill with water (it spoils regattas, for one thing). Thrill to the promise of next year's regatta, in remote, rustic Didjabringabeeralong. It'll be asolutely gujeroo (no worries).
Carpe jugulum
- 425 páginas
- 15 horas de lectura
Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be priest. He thought he'd come to Lancre for a simple ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches. There's Young Agnes, who is really in two minds about everything - Magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies, Nanny Ogg, and Granny Weatherwax, who is big trouble.
The Fifth Elephant
- 389 páginas
- 14 horas de lectura
The flat world is supported on the backs of four elephants. But aren't there supposed to be five? Indeed there are. So what happened to the fifth elephant? An investigation of an attempted assassination leads Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary on a wild goose-or rather, elephant-chase that will lead him to discover the truth about the missing pachyderm. Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren't there supposed to be five? Indeed there were. So where is it? When duty calls, Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary answers. Even when he doesn't want to. He's been "invited" to attend a royal function as both detective and diplomat. The one role he relishes; the other requires, well, ruby tights. Of course where cops (even those clad in tights) go, alas, crime follows. An attempted assassination and a theft soon lead to a desperate chase from the low halls of Discworld royalty to the legendary fat mines of Uberwald, where lard is found in underground seams along with tusks and teeth and other precious ivory artifacts. It's up to the dauntless Vimes-bothered as usual by a familiar cast of Discworld inhabitants (you know, trolls, dwarfs, werewolves, vampires and such) to solve the puzzle of the missing pachyderm. Which of course he does. After all, solving mysteries is his job.
The truth
- 444 páginas
- 16 horas de lectura
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…
Discworld's first newspaper editor just wants to get at the truth but unfortunately, like other editors before and after him, many people want him dead for a variety of reasons.
The last hero
- 176 páginas
- 7 horas de lectura
A 'Discworld novel with pictures' - the 27th instalment in the fantasy series that has made Terry Pratchett an international superstar.
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
- 269 páginas
- 10 horas de lectura
Imagine a million clever rats. Rats that don't run. Rats that fight... Maurice, a scruffy tomcat with an eye for the main chance, has the perfect fiddle going. He has a stupid-looking kid for a piper, and he has his very own plague of rats - rats who are strangely educated, so Maurice can no longer think of them as 'lunch'. And everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers - and is giving him lots of money... Until they try the trick in the far-flung town of Bad Blintz, and the nice little con suddenly goes down the drain. Someone there is playing a different tune. A dark, shadowy tune. Something very, very bad is waiting in the cellars. The rats must learn a new word. Evil. It's not a game any more. It's definitely a rat-eat-rat world down there. In fact, that might only be the start... Bestselling novelist Terry Pratchett leads readers from tale to tail in a darkly imaginative and fiendishly entertaining story, the first for younger readers set in the Discworld universe, the setting of his phenomenally successful fantasy novels.
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he's back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck...Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger…
Los pequeños hombres libres
- 280 páginas
- 10 horas de lectura
La trigésima novela de la serie «Mundodisco» y la primera protagonizada por la bruja Tiffany Dolorido. La granja de los Dolorido corre peligro. «Otro mundo está chocando con éste», ha dicho el sapo. «Los monstruos vuelven». Por las colinas se abalanzan pesadillas que amenazan a la familia. A ello se suma la desaparición del hermano pequeño de Tiffany Dolorido, resuelta a recuperarlo de las manos de quien se lo haya llevado. Para hacer frente a tan ardua empresa, Tiffany cuenta con una temible arma (una sartén) y el libro de magia de su abuela (que viste el amenazador título Enfermedades de las ovejas). Sin embargo, no estará sola para hacer frente a los peligros que se le presenten durante su búsqueda. La acompañan los Nac Mac Feegle, unos seres azules, bravucones y ladronzuelos que fueron expulsados del País de las Hadas y que apenas sí se levantan unos pocos centímetros del suelo. Ni la valiente niña ni estos pequeños hombres libres pueden imaginarse la extraordinaria aventura en la que están a punto de embarcarse.
Monstrous regiment
- 494 páginas
- 18 horas de lectura
It began as a sudden strange fancy . . . Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape took more time . . . And now she's enlisted in the army, and searching for her lost brother. But there's a war on. There's always a war on. And Polly and her fellow recruits are suddenly in the thick of it, without any training, and the enemy is hunting them. All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army and a vampire with a lust for coffee. Well . . . They have the Secret. And as they take the war to the heart of the enemy, they have to use all the resources of . . . the Monstrous Regiment.
A Hat Full of Sky
- 333 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
Eleven-year-old Tiffany Aching wants to be a real witch. But a real witch doesn't casually step out of her body, leaving it empty. Tiffany does- and there's something just waiting for an empty body to take over. Something horrible, which can't ever die. Now Tiffany's got to learn to be a real witch really quickly, with the help of arch-witch Mistress Weatherwax and the truly amazing Miss Level. 'Crivens! And us!' Oh, yes. And the Wee Free Men - the rowdiest, toughest, smelliest bunch of fairies ever to be thrown out of Fairyland. They'll fight anything... Wise, witty and wonderfully inventive, A HAT FULL OF SKY is Terry Pratchett's second novel about Tiffany Aching and the Wee Free Men. His first novel for younger readers set in Discworld, THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS, won the Carnegie Medal.
Cartas en el asunto
- 432 páginas
- 16 horas de lectura
Húmedo von Mustachen, artista de las estafas, los timos y las apuestas fraudulentas, debe elegir entre la muerte y la vida. O lo que es lo mismo, entre pensar unas famosas últimas palabras de camino a la horca, o aceptar la oferta de lord Vetinari de modernizar el moribundo servicio de correos de Ankh-Morpork. Pasar de la honrada delincuencia a trabajar para el gobierno... hum, difícil decisión. Tendría que reabrir la destartalada Oficina de Correos, en la que se acumulan toneladas de cartas desde hace años. Tendría que desafiar el sol, la lluvia, la nieve, los perros, los trolls con palos, las enormes cosas verdes con dientes y tantos otros obstáculos en la ruta de un cartero. Tendría que enfrentarse a su principal competencia: el equipo directivo de la compañía de torres de señales que ha monopolizado las comunicaciones del Mundodisco. Y tampoco estaría nada mal conseguir una cita con la señorita Buencorazón... Tal vez haga falta un timador nato, con don de gentes y mucho estilo, para triunfar donde otros más escrupulosos han fracasado. Puede que sea el momento de tomar... cartas en el asunto. Novela finalista en los prestigiosos premios Nebula y Locus.
Thud!
- 398 páginas
- 14 horas de lectura
Once, in a gods-forsaken hellhole called Koom Valley, trolls and dwarfs met in bloody combat. Centuries later, each species still views the other with simmering animosity. Lately, the influential dwarf, Grag Hamcrusher, has been fomenting unrest among Ankh-Morpork's more diminutive citizens--a volatile situation made far worse when the pint-size provocateur is discovered bashed to death ... with a troll club lying conveniently nearby. Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch is aware of the importance of solving the Hamcrusher homicide without delay. (Vimes's second most-pressing responsibility, in fact, next to always being home at six p.m. sharp to read Where's My Cow? to Sam, Jr.) But more than one corpse is waiting for Vimes in the eerie, summoning darkness of a labyrinthine mine network being secretly excavated beneath Ankh-Morpork's streets. And the deadly puzzle is pulling him deep into the muck and mire of superstition, hatred, and fear--and perhaps all the way to Koom Valley itself
Wintersmith
- 352 páginas
- 13 horas de lectura
When witch-in-training Tiffany Aching accidentally interrupts the Dance of the Seasons and awakens the interest of the elemental spirit of Winter, she requires the help of the six-inch-high, sword-wielding, sheep-stealing Wee Free Men to put the seasons aright
Making money
- 474 páginas
- 17 horas de lectura
It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar…
Unseen Academicals
- 400 páginas
- 14 horas de lectura
The wizards of Unseen University in the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed forever.
Me vestiré de medianoche
- 416 páginas
- 15 horas de lectura
La cuarta novela protagonizada por Tiffany Dolorido y los Nac Mac Feegle, cierre de esta encantadora subserie del Mundodisco pensada para los lectores más jóvenes (y para los no tan jóvenes), que se inició con Los pequeños hombres libres y siguió en Un sombrero de cielo y La corona de hielo. Con casi dieciséis años, Tiff any Dolorido ya es una bruja en pleno derecho. Ha pasado varios años estudiando con brujas veteranas y ahora ejerce el oficio sola en su tierra natal, la Caliza. Lleva a cabo esas partes de la brujería que no son nada divertidas ni glamurosas, no hacen saltar chispas, no tienen nada que ver con varitas, y de las que rara vez se oye hablar: cuida a los necesitados. Pero alguien, o algo, está fomentando el miedo, inculcando oscuras ideas contra las brujas y resucitando rumores muy desagradables sobre ellas. De repente, el simple hecho de llevar un sombrero puntiagudo puede traer muchos problemas. Aun peor, todo apunta a que el culpable sea un misterioso fantasma que está persiguiendo a una joven bruja en especial. Y ya casi ha dado con ella... Con la ayuda de sus diminutos aliados azules, Tiffany deberá encontrar y acabar con este malestar atacando su raíz. Porque si Tiffany cae, la Caliza entera caerá con ella.
Snuff
- 512 páginas
- 18 horas de lectura
"The 39th installment in the New York Times bestselling "Discworld" canon from Terry Pratchett, "the purely funniest English writer since Wodehouse." (Washington Post Book World)"-- Provided by publisher.
Raising steam
- 512 páginas
- 18 horas de lectura
To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork – a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all of the elements: earth, air, fire and water. This being Ankh-Morpork, it’s soon drawing astonished crowds, some of whom caught the zeitgeist early and arrive armed with notepads and very sensible rainwear. Moist von Lipwig is not a man who enjoys hard work – as master of the Post Office, the Mint and the Royal Bank his input is, of course, vital . . . but largely dependent on words, which are fortunately not very heavy and don’t always need greasing. However, he does enjoy being alive, which makes a new job offer from Vetinari hard to refuse . . . Steam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mister Simnel, the man wi’ t’flat cap and sliding rule who has an interesting arrangement with the sine and cosine. Moist will have to grapple with gallons of grease, goblins, a fat controller with a history of throwing employees down the stairs and some very angry dwarfs if he’s going to stop it all going off the rails . . .
Sir Terry Pratchett's final Discworld novel, which features the witch Tiffany Aching.
