Reaper Man: A Discworld Novel"Engaging, surreal satire. . . nothing short of magical." —Chicago Tribune The eleventh installment in the Discworld fantasy series from New York Times bestselling author Terry Pratchett — in which Death has been fired by the Auditors of Reality, and Ankh-Morpork's undead and underemployed set off to find him. They say there are only two things you can count on. But that was before Death started pondering the existential. Of course, the last thing anyone needs is a squeamish Grim Reaper and soon his Discworld bosses have sent him off with best wishes and a well-earned gold watch. Now Death is having the time of his life, finding greener pastures where he can put his scythe to a whole new use. But like every cutback in an important public service, Death's demise soon leads to chaos and unrest—literally, for those whose time was supposed to be up, like Windle Poons. The oldest geezer in the entire faculty of Unseen University—home of magic, wizardry, and big dinners—Windle was looking forward to a wonderful afterlife, not this boring been-there-done-that routine. To get the fresh start he deserves, Windle and the rest of Ankh-Morpork's undead and underemployed set off to find Death and save the world for the living(and everybody else, of course). The Discworld novels can be read in any order, but Reaper Man is the second book in the Death series. The Death collection includes:
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... it's springtime and with any luck the carbon dioxide will unfreeze again. The imperative is felt by deepsea beings who have never seen the sun and urban humans whose only connection with the cycles of nature is that their Volvo once ran ...
... It's not even sand in there. It's seconds, endlessly turning the maybe into the was. And every lifetimer has a name on it. And the room is full of the soft hissing of people living. Picture the scene . . . And now add the sharp clicking ...
... its genetic code to produce, at about eye-level on its trunk, in pale letters, its precise age. Within a year they were felled almost into extinction by the ornamental house number plate industry, and only a very few survive in hard-to ...
... It's pouring.” QUITESO. “But that means ... I mean ... ?” IT MEANS THAT ONE DAY THE SAND WILL ALL BE POURED, ALBERT ... its own tail—” NEVERTHELESS, I AM GOING TO DIE. THERE IS NO APPEAL. “But what will happen to me?” Albert said. Terror ...
... its oats and gave a little whinny of greeting. The horse's name was Binky. He was a real horse. Death had tried fiery ... it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break . . .” Death watched him curiously, as one might watch a beetle ...
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