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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... head. He was almost in tears. “A genuine Going-Away party!” he kept muttering. “Haven't had one of them since old 'Scratcher' Hocksole Went Away,” the capital letters fell into place easily, “back in, mm, the Year of the Intimidating ...
... head out and said, “Knock it off, guv'nor, I'm pedalling as fast as I can.” He closed the watch again and looked around desperately. No one else seemed anxious to come too near Windle Poons. The Bursar felt it was up to him to make ...
... head of one of the eight orders of magic, but practically no wizards wanted to spend lots of time in an officeshuffling bits of paper and doing sums. All the paperwork of the University tended to accumulate in the Bursar's of- fice ...
... head. Someone's grandad in false whiskers, of course. Some jolly old boy with a sack of toys, stamping the snow off his boots. Someone who gave you something. Whereas tonight ... Of course, old Windle probably felt different about it ...
... head. “That's the way I want to go,” said the Dean. “What, muttering about meat pies?” said the Bursar. “No. Late.” “Hold on. Hold on,” said the Archchancellor. “This isn't right, you know. According to tradition, Death himself turns up ...
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