Interesting Times

institution, he should be.”
    Fantasy & Science Fiction
    “Discworld is more complicated and satisfactory than Oz…. It has the energy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland . It also has an intelligent wit and a truly original grim and comic grasp of the nature of things.”
    A.S. Byatt
    “What makes Terry Pratchett’s fantasies so entertaining is that their humor depends on the characters first, on the plot second, rather than the other way around. The story isn’t there simply to lead from one slapstick pratfall to another pun. Its humor is genuine and unforced.”
    Ottawa Citizen
    “Pratchett’s humor is international, satirical, devious, knowing, irreverent, unsparing, and, above all, funny.”
    Kirkus Reviews
    “Pratchett’s storytelling [is] a clever blend of Monty Pythonesque humor and Big Questions about morality and the workings of the universe.”
    Publishers Weekly
    “He is head and shoulders above the best of the rest. He is screamingly funny. He is wise. He has style.”
    Daily Telegraph (London)
    “Pratchett’s writing is hilarious.”
    Cleveland Plain Dealer
    “The Discworld novels are a phenomenon.”
    Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
    “Consistently, inventively mad…wild and wonderful.”
    Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine
    “Pratchett, for those not yet lucky enough to have discovered him, is one of England’s most highly regarded satirists. Nothing—not religion, not politics, not anything—is safe from him.”
    South Bend Tribune
    “A master of laugh-out-loud fiction…Pratchett’s ‘Monty Python’-like plots are almost impossible to describe.”
    Chicago Tribune
    “Pratchett demonstrates just how great the distance is between one- or two-joke writers and the comic masters whose work will be read into the next century.”
    Locus
    “Terry Pratchett ought to be locked in a padded cell. And forced to write a book a month.”
    Barbara Michaels
    “Pratchett is the funniest parodist working in the field today, period.”
    New York Review of Science Fiction

B OOKS BY T ERRY P RATCHETT
    The Carpet People
    The Dark Side of the Sun
    Strata • Truckers
    Diggers • Wings
    Only You Can Save Mankind
    Johnny and the Dead • Johnny and the Bomb
    The Unadulterated Cat (with Gray Jollife)
    Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman)
    T HE D ISCWORLD ® S ERIES :
    Going Postal • Monstrous Regiment • Night Watch
    The Last Hero • The Truth • Thief of Time
    The Fifth Elephant • Carpe Jugulum
    The Last Continent • Jingo
    Hogfather • Feet of Clay • Maskerade
    Interesting Times • Soul Music • Men at Arms
    Lords and Ladies • Small Gods
    Witches Abroad • Reaper Man
    Moving Pictures • Eric (with Josh Kirby)
    Guards! Guards! • Pyramids
    Wyrd Sisters • Sourcery • Mort • Equal Rites
    The Light Fantastic • The Color of Magic
    The Art of Discworld (with Paul Kidby)
    Mort: A Discworld Big Comic (with Graham Higgins)
    The Streets of Ankh-Morpork (with Stephen Briggs)
    The Discworld Companion (with Stephen Briggs)
    The Discworld Mapp (with Stephen Briggs)
    The Pratchett Portfolio (with Paul Kidby)

Copyright
    This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
    INTERESTING TIMES . Copyright © 1994 by Terry and Lyn Pratchett. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
    EPub Edition © JUNE 2007 ISBN: 9780061807411
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