An edition of Interesting Times (1994)

Interesting Times

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An edition of Interesting Times (1994)

Interesting Times

  • 4.2 (45 ratings) ·
  • 74 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 69 Have read

A fantasy featuring the wizard Rincewind on a mission to an empire undergoing a cultural revolution reminiscent of the one in China. The novel's title is a play on the Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." By the author of Men at Arms.

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Publisher
HarperTorch
Language
English
Pages
400

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Edition Availability
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Interesting Times
2022, Penguin Books
in English
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Interesting Times: A Novel of Discworld
2014, Harper
mass market paperback in English
Cover of: Interesting Times
Interesting Times
2000, HarperTorch
in English
Cover of: Interesting Times
Interesting Times
1998, HarperPrism
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: Interesting Times
Interesting Times: A Novel of Discworld
1997, HarperPrism
in English
Cover of: Echt zauberhaft
Echt zauberhaft: Ein Roman von der bizarren Scheibenwelt
1997, Goldmann
Paperback in German
Cover of: Ciekawe czasy
Ciekawe czasy
1994, Prószyński i S-ka
in Polish

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First Sentence

"This is where the gods play games with the lives of men, on a board which is at one and the same time a simple playing area and the whole world."

Edition Notes

Series
Discworld (18)

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR6066.R34 I58 1994, PR6066.R34

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7287137M
Internet Archive
interestingtimes00terr
ISBN 10
0061056901
ISBN 13
9780061056901
LCCN
96037261
OCLC/WorldCat
48585260
Library Thing
1044340
Wikidata
Q109323058
Goodreads
884288

Work Description

"May you live in interesting times" is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld -- especially on the distinctly unmagical sorcerer Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life. But when a request for a "Great Wizzard" arrives in Ankh-Morpork via carrier albatross from the faraway Counterweight Continent, it's he who's sent as emissary. Chaos threatens to follow the impending demise of the Agatean Empire's current ruler. And, for some incomprehensible reason, someone believes Rincewind will have a mythic role in the war and wholesale bloodletting that will surely ensue. (Carnage is pretty much a given, since Cohen the Barbarian and his extremely elderly Silver Horde are busily formulating their own plan for looting, pillaging, and, er, looking wistfully at girls.) However, Rincewind firmly believes there are too many heroes already in the world, yet only one Rincewind. And he owes it to the world to keep that one alive for as long as possible.

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