The Darkside Of The Sun

Terry Pratchett is the acclaimed creator of the Discworld series, started in 1983 with The Colour of Magic, and which has now reached 38 novels. Worldwide sales of his books are now 60 million, and they have been translated into 37 languages. Terry Pratchett was knighted for services to literature in 2009.
     
     

    The Discworld Series is a continuous history of a world not totally unlike our own except that it is a flat disc carried on the backs of four elephants astride a giant turtle floating through space, and that it is peopled by, among others, wizards, dwarves, policemen, thieves, beggars, vampires and witches. Within the history of Discworld there are many individual stories, which can be read in any order, but reading them in sequence can increase your enjoyment through the accumulation of all the fine detail that contributes to the teeming imaginative complexity of this brilliantly conceived world.
     

    1. THE COLOUR OF MAGIC
    2. THE LIGHT FANTASTIC
    3. EQUAL RITES
    4. MORT
    5. SOURCERY
    6. WYRD SISTERS
    7. PYRAMIDS
    8. GUARDS! GUARDS!
    9. ERIC
(illustrated by Josh Kirby)
    10. MOVING PICTURES
    11. REAPER MAN
    12. WITCHES ABROAD
    13. SMALL GODS
    14. LORDS AND LADIES
    15. MEN AT ARMS
    16. SOUL MUSIC
    17. INTERESTING TIMES
    18. MASKERADE
    19. FEET OF CLAY
    20. HOGFATHER
    21. JINGO
    22. THE LAST CONTINENT
    23. CARPE JUGULUM
    24. THE FIFTH ELEPHANT
    25. THE TRUTH
    26. THIEF OF TIME
    27. THE LAST HERO
(illustrated by Josh Kirby)
    28. THE AMAZING MAURICE &
HIS EDUCATED RODENTS (for younger readers)
    29. NIGHT WATCH
    30. THE WEE FREE MEN (for younger readers)
    31. MONSTROUS REGIMENT
    32. A HAT FULL OF SKY (for younger readers)
    33. GOING POSTAL
    34. THUD!
    35. WINTERSMITH (for younger readers)
    36. MAKING MONEY
    37. UNSEEN ACADEMICALS
    38. I SHALL WEAR MIDNIGHT (for younger readers)
    ---------- Other books about Discworld ----------
    THE SCIENCE OF DISCWORLD
(with Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen)
    THE SCIENCE OF DISCWORLD II: THE GLOBE
(with Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen)
    THE SCIENCE OF DISCWORLD III:
DARWIN’S WATCH
(with Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen)
    THE NEW DISCWORLD COMPANION
(with Stephen Briggs)
    NANNY OGG’S COOKBOOK
(with Stephen Briggs, Tina Hannan and Paul Kidby)
    THE PRATCHETT PORTFOLIO
(with Paul Kidby)
    THE DISCWORLD ALMANAK
(with Bernard Pearson)
    THE UNSEEN UNIVERSITY CUT-OUT BOOK
(with Alan Batley and Bernard Pearson)
    WHERE’S MY COW?
(illustrated by Melvyn Grant)
    THE ART OF DISCWORLD
(with Paul Kidby)
    THE WIT AND WISDOM OF DISCWORLD
(compiled by Stephen Briggs)
    THE FOLKLORE OF DISCWORLD
(with Jacqueline Simpson)
    ---------- Discworld Maps ----------
    THE STREETS OF ANKH-MORPORK
(with Stephen Briggs, painted by Stephen Player)
    THE DISCWORLD MAPP
(with Stephen Briggs, painted by Stephen Player)
    A TOURIST GUIDE TO LANCRE –
A DISCWORLD MAPP
(with Stephen Briggs, illustrated by Paul Kidby)
    DEATH’S DOMAIN
(with Paul Kidby)
    A complete list of Terry Pratchett ebooks and audio books as well as other books based on the Discworld series – illustrated screenplays, graphic novels, comics and plays – can be found on www.terrypratchett.co.uk
    ---------- Non-Discworld books ----------
    THE DARK SIDE OF THE SUN
    STRATA
    THE UNADULTERATED CAT
(illustrated by Gray Jolliffe)
    GOOD OMENS
(with Neil Gaiman)
    -- Non-Discworld novels for younger readers --
    THE CARPET PEOPLE
    TRUCKERS
    DIGGERS
    WINGS
    ONLY YOU CAN SAVE MANKIND*
    JOHNNY AND THE DEAD
    JOHNNY AND THE BOMB
    NATION
    * www.ifnotyouthenwho.com

THE DARK SIDE
OF THE SUN

1
    ‘Only predict.’
    Charles Sub-Lunar, from The Lights In The Sky Are Photofloods
     
    In the false dawn a warm wind blew out of the east, shaking the dry reed cases.
    The marsh mist broke into ribbons and curled away. Small night creatures burrowed hastily into the slime. In the distance, hidden by the baroque mist curls, a night bird screeched in the floating reed beds.
    In one of the big lakes near the open sea three delicate white windshells hoisted their papery sails and tacked slowly towards the incoming surf.
    Dom waited just beyond the breakers, two metres below the dancing surface, a thin stream of bubbles rising from his gill pack. He heard the shells long before he saw them. They sounded like skates on distant ice.
    He grinned to himself. There would only be one chance. Some of those pretty trailing tendrils were lethal. There might never be another chance, ever. He tensed.
    And knifed upwards.
    The shell bucked violently as he grabbed the blunt prow, and he swung his