Reaper Man: A Discworld NovelIgnite your imagination with this immersive fantasy read! "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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... going upward. He hadn't really expected anything else. It meant 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 ...
... going to die. He knew it, in a frail and shaky sort of way. Of course, he mused, as he wheeled his wheelchair over the flagstones toward his ground-floor study, in a general sort of way everyone knew they were going to die, even the ...
... going to die all alone, and no one cared. He bumped the door open with the wheel of the chair and fumbled on the table by the door for the tinder box. That was another thing. Hardly anyone used tinder boxes these days. They bought the ...
... going by fast. Didn't make sense. Mmm. Mind you, you didn't get the sense now that you used to get in the old days. And they let the University be run by mere boys now. In the old days it had been run by proper wizards, great big men ...
... GOING TO DIE. THERE IS NO APPEAL. “But what will happen to me?” Albert said. Terror glittered on his words like flakes of metal on the edge of a knife. THERE WILL BE A NEW DEATH. Albert drew himself up. REAPER MAN 15.
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