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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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Fantasy fiction, Discworld (Imaginary place), Fiction, Fantasy, Drama (dramatic works by one author), Fiction, fantasy, general, Drama, English Fantasy drama, Discworld (imaginary place), fiction, Fiction, humorous, Rincewind the wizard (fictitious character), fiction, Science fiction, fantasy, horror, Wizards, Disque-monde (Lieu imaginaire), Romans, nouvelles, English literatureShowing 7 featured editions. View all 45 editions?
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Interesting Times: A Novel of Discworld
2014, Harper
mass market paperback
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0062276298 9780062276292
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Echt zauberhaft: Ein Roman von der bizarren Scheibenwelt
1997, Goldmann
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3442415993 9783442415991
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"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."
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"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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