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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... 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 common people. No one ...
... knew. Notif death involved violence or murder, of course, but if the cause of death was simply a case of running out of life then . . . well, you knew. You generally got the premonition in time to return your library books and make sure ...
... knew the story. The Archchancellor always mucked up the punch line, and in any case he had other things on his mind. He kept looking back at the little table. The Bursar was a kindly if nervous soul, and quite enjoyed his job. Apart ...
... knew where the metaphorical window was that didn't shut properly. In short, Windle Poons went back to Windle Poons. Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They ...
... knew how to think, and walking and moving were just a matter of twitching some fairly obvious nerves, but how exactly did your stomach work? It began to dawn on Windle that the human body is not run by the brain, despite the brain's ...
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