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Satirical fantasy embracing technological revolution.

If you're into tales that mesh fantasy with a dose of wit and societal satire, "Raising Steam" will be right up your alley. It's classic Pratchett—smart, funny, and thought-provoking. Witnessing Moist adapt to and navigate the disruptive forces of industrial change in a beloved fantasy world is both entertaining and relevant to our own technological shifts. It's a steam-powered metaphor for progress that you'll chuckle through.

  • Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2014)
  • Prometheus Award Nominee for Best Novel (2015)
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ISBN: 9780385538268
Authors: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Doubleday
Date of Publication: 2014-03-18
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Science Fiction, Fantasy
Goodreads rating: 4.02
(rated by 44462 readers)

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Steam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mister Simnel, the man with a flat cap and a sliding rule. He has produced a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all of the elements—earth, air, fire, and water—and it’s soon drawing astonished crowds. To the consternation of Ankh-Morpork’s formidable Patrician, Lord Vetinari, no one is in charge of this new invention. This needs to be rectified, and who better than the man he has already appointed master of the Post Office, the Mint, and the Royal Bank: Moist von Lipwig. Moist is not a man who enjoys hard work—unless it is dependent on words, which are not very heavy and don’t always need greasing. He does enjoy being alive, however, which makes a new job offer from Vetinari hard to refuse. Moist will have to grapple with gallons of grease, goblins, a fat controller with a history of throwing employees down the stairs, and some very angry dwarfs if he’s going to stop it all from going off the rails.
 

Satirical fantasy embracing technological revolution.

If you're into tales that mesh fantasy with a dose of wit and societal satire, "Raising Steam" will be right up your alley. It's classic Pratchett—smart, funny, and thought-provoking. Witnessing Moist adapt to and navigate the disruptive forces of industrial change in a beloved fantasy world is both entertaining and relevant to our own technological shifts. It's a steam-powered metaphor for progress that you'll chuckle through.

  • Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2014)
  • Prometheus Award Nominee for Best Novel (2015)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.