Terry Pratchett continúa escribiendo y escribiendo. El Mundodisco es todo un fenómeno en Inglaterra, donde cada libro es esperado con ansia por miles y miles discadictos.
Todo ello ha llevado a la publicación de numeroso material en torno a Mundodisco :mapas, recopilaciones, música, juegos de ordenador, miniaturas...e incluso una maqueta de la Universidad Invisible de Ankh-Morpork, de edición limitada.
Pero no sólo de Mundodisco vive el hombre (o al menos, casi todos los hombres). Pratchett -Pterry, como se le conoce entre sus fans- también ha escrito libros que no son de Mundodisco.
Y ahora, después de tanto rollo, la lista de material del Mundodisco que, por el momento, seguirá creciendo... He puesto el texto de las contraportadas de las novelas que tengo en inglés, y que no han sido publicadas en castellano.
Pero el mejor sitio de la Red para saber todas las novedades respecto a Pratchett es sin duda la L-Space web
THE FAIRIES ARE BACK - BUT THIS TIME THEY DON´T JUST WANT YOUR TEETH...
Granny Weatherwax and her tiny coven are up against real elves.
It´s Midsummer Night. No time for dreaming...
With full supporting cast of dwarfs, wizards, trolls, Morris dancers and one orang-utan. And lots of hey nonny-nonny and blood all over the place.
'Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City Watch needs MEN! '
But what it´s got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), Lance-constable Angua (a woman... most of the time) and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving).
And they need all the help they can get. Because they´ve only got twenty-four hours to clean up the town and this is Ankh-Morpork we´re talking about...
MIGHTY BATTLES! REVOLUTION! DEATH! WAR! (AND HIS SONS TERROR AND PANIC, AND DAUGHTER CLANCY)
The oldest and most inscrutable empire en the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise What I did on My Holidays. Workers are uniting, with nothing to loose but their water buffaloes. War (and Clancy) are spreading throughout the ancient cities.
And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is:
Rincewind the Wizard, who can´t even spell the word 'wizard'...
Cohen the barbarian hero, five foot tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime´s experience of not dying...
...and a very special butterfly.
THE SHOW MUST GO ON, AS MURDER, MUSIC AND MAYHEM RUN RIOT IN THE NIGHT...
The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork... a huge, rambling building, where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by a strangely-familiar evil mastermind in a hideously-deformed evening dress...
At least, he hopes so. But Granny Weatherwax, Discworld´s most famous witch, is in the audience. And she doesn´t hold with that sort of thing.
So there´s going to be trouble (but nevertheless a good evening´s entertainment with murders you can really hum...
THERE´S A WOLF WITH PRE-LUNAR TENSION IN ANKH-MORPORK. AND A DWARF WITH ATTITUDE AND A GOLEM WHO´S BEGUN TO THINK FOR ITSELF.
But for Commander Vimes, Head of Ankh-Morpork City Watch, that´s only the start...
There´s treason in the air. A crime has happened.
He´s not only got to find out whodunit, but howdunit to. He´s not even sure what they dun. But as sure as he knows what the questions are, he´s going to want some answers.
IT´S THE NIGHT BEFORE HOGSWATCH.
AND IT´S TOO QUIET.
Where is the big jolly fat man? Why is Death creeping
down chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho? The
darkest night of the year is getting a lot darker...
Susan the gothic governess has got to sort it out by
morning, otherwise there wono´t be a morning.
Ever again...
The 20th Discworld novel is a festive feast of darkness and
Death (but with jolly robins and tinsel too).
As they say: You´d better watch out...
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