Thief of Time

a novel of Discworld

378 pages

English language

Published April 12, 2008

ISBN:
978-0-06-103132-8
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Everybody wants more time, which is why on Discworld only the experts can manage it—the venerable Monks of History, who store it and pump it from where it's wasted, like underwater (how much time does a codfish really need?), to places like cities, where busy denizens lament, "Oh where does the time go?"

While everyone always talks about slowing down, one young horologist is about to do the unthinkable. He's going to stop. Well, stop time that is, by building the world's first truly accurate clock. Which means esteemed History Monk Lu-Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd have to put on some speed to stop the timepiece before it starts. For if the Perfect Clock starts ticking, Time—as we know it—will end. And then the trouble will really begin . . .

10 editions

Arrested Development level writing, packed with smartly-handled tropes and some solid fantasy science

I loved this book, it's amazing to see Susan as an adult. A ton of stuff going on, including an exploration of totalitarian societies and, as usual, human nature.

if there were rules, then they applied to everyone, even her. Otherwise they were merely tyranny.

reviewed Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #26)

Wuxia à la Mundodisco

Después de varios libros que me gustaron especialmente porque Pratchett puso especial énfasis en llevar al Mundodisco problemas claramente basados en nuestro Mundobola ahora tocaba una entrega más fantástica. No voy a decir que sea malo ni mucho menos (dudo que haya nada escrito por El hombre del sombrero que no me guste), pero sí es cierto que lo he disfrutado un poquito menos que los anteriores. Aún así tiene personajes memorables como los Auditores, El Quinto Jinete y, sobre todo, una Susan que va cogiendo cada vez más relevancia.

Review of 'Thief Of Time: Discworld Novel 26' on 'Goodreads'

I didn't have great expectations from this book, but it's now one of my favourites in the Discworld series.

2023 re-read: still one of my favourite books in the Discworld universe.

Review of 'Procrastination (Les annales du Disque-Monde, tome 26)' on 'Goodreads'

Comment fait [a:Terry pratchett|1654|Terry Pratchett|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1235562205p2/1654.jpg] ? A chaque tome, je me demande si il pourra encore explorer de nouveaux aspects de son monde à tiroir, et à chaque tome, il le fait spectaculairement. Dans ce tome, il s'attaque, dans le désordre, aux cavaliers de l'apocalypse, aux vieux moines pleins de sagesse, au temps qui passe, en passant par les musées inutiles. Et chacun de ces sujets mérite qu'on en parle, ce qui est malheureusement très difficile sans déflorer l'intrigue, habilement construite comme d'habitude.
Les cavaliers de l'apocalypse, donc, reprennent une cavalcade, ce qui est difficule pour ces représentations anthropomorphiques qui se sont habituées, semble-t-il, à leur humanité. Heureusement pour elles, le dernier n'est pas, je trouve, le moindre (je lui ai même trouvé une classe largement supérieure à la Pestilence, par exemple, ce qui n'a rien d'étonnant vu l'époque).
Suzanne Sto Hellit joue pleinement dans ce roman son rôle de …

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