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Night Watch

Sam Vimes can't tell what kind of day heUs having. One moment heUs fighting a ruthless murderer on top of the library of the Unseen University. The next, heUs thrown back in time. But, the cityUs on the brink of revolt, and that killer he was after in the future is with him here in the past, which is now the present. Now all Vimes has to do is figure out how to get back home--but first he has to change the outcome of a bloody rebellion.

Annotation:
In this entry in the Discworld series, Watchman Sam Vines is suddenly transported back in time to a past that is somewhat different from the one he remembers. A revolt is under way and his younger self must not only quell the rebellion, but also figure out a way back to the future that is his home.

Praise

New York Review of Books
"A fine place to start reading Pratchett if you don't mind a few "in" jokes, NIGHT WATCH transcends standard genre fare with its sheer schoolboy humor and characters who reject their own stereotypes." - Therese Littleton 12/15/2002

Author Bio

Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett's published his first story when he was only 13 years old. "The Hades Business" originally appeared in a school magazine and, two years later, it was re-published in Science Fantasy magazine, making him a professional writer at the age of 15. His first novel, THE CARPET PEOPLE, was published in 1971 and followed the adventures of a society of microscopic people living in, well, a carpet. Essentially, a children's novel in the vein of John Peterson's THE LITTLES (who, incidentally, would be giants compared to Pratchett's people) and the like, the novel paved the way for Pratchett's style of "grounded" fantasy. Many of his novels are feature fairly traditional fantasy elements in fairly traditional fantasy settings, but almost all of these settings are microcosms of the "real" world--in the case of the Discworld series, for example, all the action takes place on a flat planet that sits atop the backs of four immense elephants who, in turn, ride on the shell of an enormous turtle travelling through space. The Discworld books, which form the bulk of Pratchett's literary work and are his most well-known titles, initially began as extremely clever, and very funny, parodies of fantasy fiction and have slowly morphed into being much more. His 1989 novel, PYRAMIDS, was awarded the British Science Fiction Award and a collaboration with Neil Gaiman, GOOD OMENS, was nominated for the 1991 World Fantasy Award. A prolific author, Pratchett is a consistent best seller in England, where, according to some estimates, his fiction accounts for a little over 1% of ALL books sold in any given year.