Ciekawe czasy (Świat Dysku, #17)
Kiedy kurierski albatros przybywa z żądaniem przysłania "Wielkiego Maga", Rincewind zostaje wezwany do trapionego niepokojami Imperium Hongów, Sungów, Fangów, Tangów i McSweeneyów, gdzie decydują się losy tronu. Rincewindowi pomaga Cohen Barbarzyńca, a także napędzany mrówkami komputer HEX,...
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Kiedy kurierski albatros przybywa z żądaniem przysłania "Wielkiego Maga", Rincewind zostaje wezwany do trapionego niepokojami Imperium Hongów, Sungów, Fangów, Tangów i McSweeneyów, gdzie decydują się losy tronu. Rincewindowi pomaga Cohen Barbarzyńca, a także napędzany mrówkami komputer HEX, fraktalny motyl pogody ze skrzydełkami Mandelbrota oraz przerażająca, choć dość powolna armia, złożona z sześciu staruszków - Srebrna Orda. Ich misją jest albo obronić, albo zdobyć Zakazane Miasto Hunghung. Niestety, instrukcje nie są jasne...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788373372924 (837337292X)
Publish date: January 16th 2003
Publisher: Prószyński i S-ka
Pages no: 304
Edition language: Polski
Category:
Fantasy,
Magic,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Humor,
Funny,
Comedy,
Science Fiction,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Speculative Fiction
Series: Discworld 2 (#17)
Rincewind gets an invitation to go and visit an old friend. As is usual for him, this involves people mistaking him for an actual wizard and trying to kill him.Plenty of humour, ranging from the politest revolutionaries you're going to meet, to a geriatric barbarian horde.
Interesting Times is from the Rincewind subseries of Discworld. It’s been quite a few books since I’ve seen Rincewind, so it was fun to see him again. He always makes me laugh. If you’ve read the earlier books, you may remember that Rincewind once had some adventures with Twoflower, a visitor f...
Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett Discworld #17 Interesting Times opens on a deserted island where Rincewind is happily spending his days coping with boredom. We don’t know exactly how he got there, but that doesn’t really matter. He’s dealing with things like coconut surprise (surprise: it...
Discworld’s Counterweight Continent is explored for the first time in the series as author Terry Pratchett sends the inept wizard Rincewind to the walled off landmass where he meets up with some old friends in a reunion of the series’ first two books. The Discworld’s version of China & Japan is th...
When my friend leant me this book he simply said 'Rincewind' at which I rolled my eyes. I must say that Rincewind is certainly not my favourite Discworld character, even though some of the books in which he has starred have been quite good. However I wasn't really expecting anything all that much to...