Reaper Man: A Discworld World"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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... that isn't the secret. The secret is the other dance. And that won't happen for a while yet. There is a ticking, such as might be made by a clock. And, indeed, in the sky there is a clock, and the ticking of freshly minted seconds flows ...
... that, even if tomorrows could exist here, there wasn't going to be any. Not anymore. There was a movement in the air behind him. Death turned slowly, and addressed the figure that wavered indistinctly in the gloom. WHY? It told him. BUT ...
... That's right! You're right! I remember that cow! Stood right over there for, oh, forty, fifty minutes. It was brown, as I recall.” “You don't get cows like that these hours.” “You don't get cows at all.” “What's a cow?” said one of the ...
... that one was yours, sir?” he said. IT WAS. NOW THIS IS. A RETIREMENT PRESENT. FROM AZRAEL HIMSELF. Albert peered at the thing in Death's hand. “But . . . the sand, sir. It's pouring.” QUITESO. “But that means ... I mean ... ?” IT MEANS THAT ...
... That is—” YOU FEAR TO DIE? “It's not that I don't want ... I mean, I've always . . . it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break . . .” Death watched him curiously, as one might watch a beetle that had landed on its back and ...
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