TERRY PRATCHETT

Una nueva entrega de la serie de ciencia-ficción ambientada en Mundodisco, el país imaginario concebido por uno de los grandes maestros del género fantástico. Éste no es un libro sobre Australia, sino sobre un país totalmente distinto que sin embargo, en ciertos aspectos, resulta bastante... australiano

The Company builds planets. Kin Arad is a high-ranking official of the Company. After twenty-one decades of living, and with the help of memory surgery, she is at the top of her profession. Discovering two of her employees have placed a fossilized plesiosaur in the wrong stratum, not to mention the fact it is holding a placard which reads 'End ...

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Dom Salabos had a lot of advantages. As heir to a huge fortune he had an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuitry), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as a godfather, a security chief who even ran checks on himself, and on Dom's home world even death was not always fatal. Why then, in an age when prediction was a science, was his fu...

There are many who say that the art of diplomacy is an intricate and complex dance between two informed partners. There are others who maintain that it's merely a matter of who carries the biggest stick. Like when a large, heavily fortified and armoured empire makes a faintly menacing request of a much smaller, infinitely more cowardly neighbour.