Russell's ebook Library
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Terry Pratchett
Young Adult Discworld [1]: Interview with Terry Pratchett about The Amazing MauriceWhat did you read when you were in your teens?I started out, as so many do, by reading all the sf I could get my hands on. And (as also happens a lot, although it's se...
Carpe Jugulum
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [23]: 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. Ma...
The Carpet People
Terry Pratchett
In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet... That's the old story everyone knows and loves. But now the Carpet is home to many different tribes and peoples and there's a new story in the making. The story of Fray,...
The Colour of Magic
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [1]: Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot.Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell ve...
The Dark Side of the Sun
Terry Pratchett
DOM SALABOS HAD A LOT OF ADVANTAGESAs heir to a huge fortune, he had an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuitry), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as godfather, a security chief who even ran checks on himself, and on Dom's home world ev...
Diggers
Terry Pratchett
Bromeliad [2]: When last seen, the peculiar, lovable nomes had managed to drive a truck away from the Arnold Bros. store, and had set up a new home in an abandoned quarry.Masklin and his little band are doing fine, although many of the more pampered ...
Dodger
Terry Pratchett
Dodger is a tosher - a sewer scavenger living in the squalor of Dickensian London.Everyone who is nobody knows Dodger. Anyone who is anybody doesn't.But when he rescues a young girl from a beating, suddenly everybody wants to know him.And Dodger's ta...
Equal Rites
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [3]: Plodding through the eternal void is the great turtle A'Tuin. On his back (or hers - the question is unresolved) stand four elephants.And supported on the elephants' shoulders is... Discworld, planet of magic and misadventure!Predictin...
Eric
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [9]: Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. The trouble is, he's not very good at it. All he wants is the usual three wishes: to be immortal, rule the world and have the most beautiful woman fall madly in love with him. The usual s...
Feet of Clay
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [19]: Who's murdering harmless old men? who's poisoning the Patrician?As autumn fogs hold Anhk-Morpork in their grip, the City Watch have to track down a murderer who can't be seen.Maybe the golems know something - but the solemn men of cla...
The Fifth Elephant
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [24]: 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....
Going Postal
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [30]: Arch-swindler Moist Van Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses - until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into... a government job?By all rights, ...
Good Omens
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.So the ...
Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [8]: "Of all the cities in the world it could have flown into, it flew into mine..."Some night-time prowler is turning the citizens of Ankh-Morpork, greatest city of the fantasy Discworld*, into something resembling small charcoal biscuits....
A Hat Full of Sky
Terry Pratchett
Young Adult Discworld [3]: A real witch never casually steps out of her body, leaving it empty. Eleven-year-old Tiffany does. And there's something just waiting for a handy body to take over. Something ancient and horrible, which can't die...Wise, wi...
Hogfather
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [20]: IT'S THE NIGHT BEFORE HOGSWATCH. AND IT'S TOO QUIET.Where is the big jolly fat man? Why is Death creeping down chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho? The darkest night of the year is getting a lot darker...Susan the gothic governess has...
Interesting Times
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [17]: "May you live in interesting times" is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld - especially on the distinctly unmagical sorcerer Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life.But when a request for...
I Shall Wear Midnight
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [35]: As Tiffany tackles domestic drudgery and the monstrous villain, Pratchett brings us reflections on the role of women, the dangers of religion and the follies of society. And, writing at the height of his powers, he makes us laugh a lo...
Jingo
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [21]: DISCWORLD GOES TO WAR, WITH ARMIES OF SARDINES, WARRIORS, FISHERMEN, SQUID AND AT LEAST ONE VERY CAMP FOLLOWER.As two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch faces unpleasant foes who are out to get him... and that's ...
Johnny and the Bomb
Terry Pratchett
Johnny Maxwell [3]: It's May 21 1941, thought Johnny. It's war.Johnny Maxwell and his friends have to do something when they find Mrs Tachyon, the local bag lady, semi-conscious in an alley... as long as it's not the kiss of live.But there's more to ...
Johnny and the Dead
Terry Pratchett
Johnny Maxwell [2]: Sell the cemetery? Over their dead bodies...Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news for them: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. B...
The Last Continent
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [22]: The Last Continent, is a lighthearted tour of the fantasy land of Fourecks, a very Australian sort of place, with brief courses in theoretical physics and evolution thrown in for good measure.Pratchett returns to his first Discworld p...
The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [27]: Cohen the Barbarian. He's been a legend in his own lifetime. He can remember the good old days of high adventure, when being a Hero meant one didn't have to worry about aching backs and lawyers and civilization.But these days, he can'...
The Light Fantastic
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [2]: What shall we do?' said Twoflower.'Panic?' said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival.When the very fabric of time and space are about to be put through the wringer - in this instance by the immi...
The Long Cosmos
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
Long Earth [5]: 2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day, a new society continues to evolve in the Long Earth. Now, a message has been received: “Join us.”The Next — the hyper-intelligent post-humans — realize that the missive contains instructions...
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