Úžasná Zeměplocha je satirická fantasy séria, ktorá sa odohráva na plochej planéte nesúcej sa na chrbte obrovskej korytnačky. Série sleduje rôzne postavy, ktoré sa potýkajú s magiou, politikou a absurdnými situáciami. Autor Terry Pratchett vytvára jedinečný svet plný humoru a kritiky spoločnosti. Každý diel prináša nové príbehy a postavy, ktoré sa stávajú ikonickými
Plochozem, fascinujúci svet umiestnený na pancieri obrovskej korytnačky A’Tuin, ktorá putuje vesmírom, obýva množstvo komických postáv. Do rázovitého súmestia Ankh-Morpork prichádza naivný turista Dvojkvietok, ktorého sprevádza chodiaca batožina. Jeho sprievodcom sa stáva nedoštudovaný čarodejník Vetroplaš, ktorý ovláda jediné zaklínadlo. Podarenú dvojicu čakajú neuveriteľne bláznivé dobrodružstvá s barbarom Hrunom, vymyslenými drakmi, skutočným Smrťom a ďalšími podivuhodnými bytosťami.
Ďalší príbeh o neschopnom čarodejníkovi Vetroplašovi z kultového cyklu Úžasná Plochozem!
Plochozem priam prekypuje nevyspytateľnou mágiou, pár nešťastníkov by o tom mohlo rozprávať. Vlastne... už nemohlo. Možno až na Vetroplaša, ktorému sa zatiaľ akoby zázrakom darí unikať nekompromisnému Smrťovi. Vďačí za to aj zaklínadlu, čo sa mu usídlilo v hlave, keď nazrel do magickej knihy Oktávo (neverte knihám, ktoré musia byť pripútané na reťazi!).
Prefíkané zaklínadlo zaliezlo do šerých zákutí čarodejníkovho mozgu a odvtedy čaká, kedy bude vyslovené. Všetko nasvedčuje tomu, že tá pravá chvíľa nastala. Plochozemi totiž hrozí zrážka so škodoradostnou červenou hviezdou a zachrániť ju môže len Vetroplaš so svojím zaklínadlom. Horšie je, že Vetroplaša naposledy videli v okamihu, keď prepadol cez okraj sveta...
Do Horných Prtiencov prichádza staručký mág, aby podľa tradície odovzdal čarodejnícku palicu práve narodenému synovi ôsmeho syna. Akosi však pozabudne overiť pohlavie novorodeniatka a jeho kolegov v čisto mužskom svete akademickej mágie čaká nejedno prekvapenie...
Smrť skôr či neskôr príde po každého. Keď príde po Morta, ponúkne mu zamestnanie a nepraktický mládenec ponuku prijme. Čoskoro však vyjde najavo, že povinnosti Smrťovho učňa sa neveľmi znášajú s romantickými citmi, ktoré v Mortovi vyvolá krásna princezná. Začína sa ďalšie bláznivé plochozemské dobrodružstvo...
Zrodil sa čaroborec, mocný mág, oproti ktorému sú ostatní čarodejníci len obyčajní varietní kúzelníci. Takú mocnú mágiu však Plochozem neunesie a hrozí jej koniec. Čaroborcovi vzdoruje len Vetroplaš, nedoštudovaný čarodejník, ktorý chce zachrániť svet - či aspoň tú časť, kde sa práve nachádza. K známym plochozemských postavám sa pripájajú ďalšie: dcéra barbara Cohena Conina, mladý skorohrdina Niki Ničiteľ vo vlnených spodkoch alebo čudácky panovník Kréozot.
Keď sa čarodejnice rozhodnú meniť smer dejín, máva to ďalekosiahle následky. Kráľovstvá sa chvejú, tróny otriasajú a dýky bodajú. Ale Babka Paprčivá a jej kolegyne z čarodejného fachu sa presvedčia, že strkať zahnuté nosy do politiky je omnoho zložitejšie, ako by človek očakával po prečítaní diel istých dramatikov... Aj tak sa však čarodejnice idú pretrhnúť, aby na trón zasadol ten správny panovník. Len či sa tentoraz múdre ženy nepomýlili...
Neplnoletý faraón to má ťažké. Skúste si predstaviť, že nesmiete nosiť peniaze, obsluhujú vás mladé ženy voľných mravov a každý si myslí, že bez vás by nevyšlo slnko. A k tomu vám pre akúsi parakozmickú nestabilitu práve explodovala Veľká pyramída. Čo urobíte uprostred nájomných vrahov, šialených veľkňazov, múmií a inej hávede? A to ste pôvodne chceli len zlepšiť životné podmienky svojho ľudu, najmä mládeže z chudobných štvrtí…
Volajú ich hradná stráž, mestská stráž alebo jednoducho stráž. Bez ohľadu na meno je ich úloha v žánri hrdinskej fantasy rovnaká: najneskôr v tretej-štvrtej kapitole knihy sa vrútiť do miestnosti, po jednom sa vrhnúť na hlavného hrdinu a dať sa zabiť. Nik sa ich ešte nespýtal, či na to majú chuť. Týmto statočným mužom venoval geniálny Terry Pratchett prvú knihu zo série o mestskej stráži – nevyhnutnej súčasti najstaršieho a najšpinavšieho mesta na celej Plochozemi, Ankh-Morporku. Mesta, kde sa pod tvrdou rukou vládnuceho patricija museli naučiť spolu existovať Cech zlodejov, Cech vrahov a ďalší ctihodní občania. Za pestrou zmesou ankh-morporských obyvateľov v ničom nezaostáva zostava mestskej stráže - aj keď toho času tak trochu v (morálnom!) rozklade. Neutešený stav mužov zákona však posilní čestný podstrážnik Mrkva, ktorého vychovali trpaslíci. Jeho nováčikovské nadšenie kolegov nakopne, a práve včas. Čím skôr totiž treba vyriešiť záhadné zločiny, najmä keď za rohom číha drak...
Erik je jediný démonologický hacker na Plochozemi. Škoda, že mu to veľmi nejde. Nechce veľa, má len tri želania. Bežné drobnosti – nesmrteľnosť, svetovládu a najkrajšiu ženu sveta. Každý uzná, že je to štandard. Lenže potom namiesto poslušného démona vyvolá z hĺbok podsvetia Vetroplaša, pravdepodobne najneschopnejšieho čarodejníka vo vesmíre, a s ním nevyhnutne aj najvzdorovitejší a najzúrivejší exemplár z výbavy cestovateľa – Batožinu. Spolu s nimi sa vydá na divokú jazdu priestorom a časom a postupne oľutuje nielen svoje tri želania, ale aj tú prostú skutočnosť, že sa vôbec narodil.
Kľuky obrázkových skriniek sa krútia, maličkí démoni maľujú ako o život a alchymisti sa radujú, pretože objavili mágiu, aká sa na Plochozemi dosiaľ nevyskytla – mágiu strieborného plátna. Ale moment! Naozaj sa tu tá mágia ešte nikdy neobjavila? Viktor Tugelbend, takmer čarodejník, ktorý sa z nedostatku iných príležitostí stal hviezdou novorodeného zábavného priemyslu, počuje tajomné volenie. Ešte tajomnejšie hlasy doháňajú Thedu „Ginger“ Vifinovú, jeho hereckú partnerku bujných proporcií, k nočným výletom a vyhrabávaniu cthinematografickej histórie. Holytrúd sníva svoje sny a o mágii strieborného plátna vie svoje... Ibaže na jej hrozivé dôsledky už zabudol. Ak mu ich rýchlo niekto nepripomenie, realita tentoraz padne pod náporom nereality a neúprosného biznisu holytrúdskeho...
They say there are only two things you can count on ... But that was before DEATH started pondering the existential. Of course, the last thing anyone needs is a squeamish Grim Reaper and soon his Discworld bosses have sent him off with best wishes and a well-earned gold watch. Now DEATH is having the time of his life, finding greener pastures where he can put his scythe to a whole new use. But like every cutback in an important public service, DEATH's demise soon leads to chaos and unrest -- literally, for those whose time was supposed to be up, like Windle Poons. The oldest geezer in the entire faculty of Unseen University -- home of magic, wizardry, and big dinners -- Windle was looking forward to a wonderful afterlife, not this boring been-there-done-that routine. To get the fresh start he deserves, Windle and the rest of Ankh-Morpork's undead and underemployed set off to find DEATH and save the world for the living (and everybody else, of course).
Be careful what you wish for... Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who had a good heart, a wise head, and poor planning skills—which unforunately left the Princess Emberella in the care of her other (not quite so good and wise) godmother when DEATH came for Desiderata. So now it's up to Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg to hop on broomsticks and make for far-distant Genua to ensure the servant girl doesn't marry the Prince. But the road to Genua is bumpy, and along the way the trio of witches encounters the occasional vampire, werewolf, and falling house (well this is a fairy tale, after all). The trouble really begins once these reluctant foster-godmothers arrive in Genua and must outwit their power-hungry counterpart who'll stop at nothing to achieve a proper "happy ending"—even if it means destroying a kingdom.
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 times 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.
Mestská stráž rozširuje svoje rady! Pozitívnu diskrimináciu predsa nemožno brať na ľahkú váhu. A tak zatiaľ čo kapitán Mrak ráta posledné dni do svojej svadby a odchodu zo služby, kaprál Mrkva a jeho tím zaúčajú nováčikov - trpaslíka Cvika, trolla Detritusa či Anguu, prvú ženu v mestskej stráži, ktorá je tak trochu citlivá na fázy mesiaca... V nepokojmi zmietanom Ankh-Morporku sa teraz zíde každá sekera či tesáky, nehovoriac o tom, že nad mestom sa vznáša hrozivý tieň a v jeho uličkách pribúda až nepríjemne veľa Smrťových klientov. Mestská stráž vo vynovenej zostave tak čelí hneď niekoľkým výzvam: nájsť záhadného vraha, utíšiť večné rozbroje medzi trpaslíkmi a trollmi či porátať sa s Cechom vrahov aj Cechom klaunov. Nehovoriac o podivných zvestiach o tom, že v meste sa objavil právoplatný dedič kráľovskej koruny.
It's hard to grow up normally when grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe - especially when you have to take over the family business, everyone thinks you're the Tooth Fairy, and you have to face the new and addictive music that has reached the Discworld.
Vraví sa, že umenie diplomacie pripomína zložitý tanec. Existuje však aj názor, že v diplomacii ide len o to, kto má najsilnejšie páky. V najstaršej a najnepreniknuteľnejšej ríši na Plochozemi, obohnanej vysokým múrom, sa rozpútal chaos. Vyvolal ho revolučný traktát na tému „Čo som zažilna dovolenke“. Chudobný ľud sa búri, lebo nemá čo stratiť – azda len svoje vodné byvoly. Náčelníci bojujú o moc. A celá ríša potrebuje mocného čarodejníka, ktorý by odvrátil strašnú pohromu. Vetroplaš rozhodne nie je najmocnejší, ba ani najbystrejší čarodejník na Plochozemi, ale silné páky diplomacie ho vykopnú na hrdinskú misiu.
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 evenin's entertainment with murders you can really hum...).
V Ankh-Morporku sa vraždí! Čo by zas nebolo až také nezvyčajné...
Ibaže nič nenasvedčuje tomu, že by mal v neobvyklých násilných smrtiach prsty obvyklý Cech vrahov. A to nie je všetko. Chýba aj akýkoľvek motív a jediná stopa, ktorú hlavný veliteľ Mrak má, je kôpka hliny a ešte pár podobne „kľúčových“ dôkazov. Najhoršie je, že hnev znepokojených obyvateľov mesta sa začína obracať na malú komunitu golemov, vážnych hlinených tvorov oddaných otrockej práci, ktorí nikdy nikomu nespôsobili žiadne problémy. A tí sa práve teraz rozhodli začať páchať samovraždy. Členovia mestskej stráže si tak musia opäť vyhrnúť rukávy (či čokoľvek si zvykne trpaslík, vlkolačka alebo troll v službe vyhŕňať), len aby zistili, že pravda sa možno vôbec neukrýva v temných uličkách nočného mesta.
'Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.' 'Twas the night before Hogswatch and all through the house . . . something was missing. Superstition makes things work in the Discworld and undermining it can have consequences. When Death realizes that belief in the Hogfather is dangerously low, he decides to take on the job. But it's just not right to find a seven-foot skeleton creeping down your chimney and trying to say 'ho, ho, ho'. It's the last night of the year, the time is turning, and if Susan, gothic governess and Death's granddaughter, doesn't sort everything out by morning, there won't be a morning. Ever again . . . 'Has the energy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland' Sunday Times Hogfather is the fourth book in the Death series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.
Z plochozemského mora sa vynoril veterník a odrazu je jasné, odkiaľ vietor fúka. Na hladinu sa vyplavila nová pevnina a s ňou aj staré spory. Proti sebe pochodujú dve armády a hlavný veliteľ Samuel Mrak z ankh-morporskej mestskej stráže má len pár hodín na to, aby vyriešil taký veľký zločin,že naň ani neexistuje zákon. Ten zločin sa volá „vojna“.Mrak si musí poradiť so zákernými darebákmi, ktorí mu idú po krku... a to hovoríme len o jeho spojencoch! Nepriateľ by mohol byť ešte horší. A asi nebude náhoda, že vreckový dezorganizér Mrakovi do dnešného zoznamu povinností pohotovo zaradil slovíčko „zomrieť“. To si však Mrak rozhodne nemôže dovoliť. Na bojisko sa totiž hrnie najgeniálnejší vynálezca i najprefíkanejší politik všetkých čias s malou zásielkou, ktorá isto-iste nastolí mier...
Something is amiss at Unseen Unversity, Ankh-Morpork's most prestigious (i.e., only) institution of higher learning. A professor is missing—but a search party is on the way! A bevy of senior wizards will follow the trail wherever it leads—even to the other side of Discworld, where the Last Continent, Fourecks, is under construction. Imagine a magical land where rain is but a myth and the ordinary is strange and the past and present run side by side. experience the terror as you encounter a Mad Dwarf, the Peach Butt, and the dreaded Meat Pie Floater. Feel the passion as the denizens of the Last Continent learn what happens when rain falls and the rivers fill with water (it spoils regattas, for one thing). Thrill to the promise of next year's regatta, in remote, rustic Didjabringabeeralong. It'll be asolutely gujeroo (no worries).
In this and indeed other lives there are givers and takers. They don't have
much time for the givers of this world - except perhaps mealtimes - and even
less for priests. Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. But
they haven't met the neighbours yet: between them and Lancre stand Granny
Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg.
The Fifth Elephant is the latest installment in the Discworld cycle starring dwarfs, diplomacy, intrigue and big lumps of fat . . . Sam Vimes is a man on the run. Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of police and the ambassador to the mysterious, fat-rich country of Uberwald. Now he has nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (don't ask). It's snowing. It's freezing. And if he can't make it through the forest to civilization there's going to be a terrible war. But there are monsters on his trail. They are bright. They are fast, and they are catching up!
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life - people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him…
The phenomenal 20 million copy bestselling author and king of satirical fiction delivers another ingenious novel. In this Terry Pratchett worldwide bestselling series Discworld is a topsy-turvy, magical place, carried serenely through the Universe on the back of the Great Turtle. In the comic tradition of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide...
A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king.
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he's back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck... Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger self how to be a good copper and change the outcome of a bloody rebellion. There's a problem: if he wins, he's got no wife, no child, no future... A Discworld Tale of One City, with a full chorus of street urchins, ladies of negotiable affection, rebels, secret policemen, and other children of the revolution. Truth! Justice! Freedom! And a Hard-boiled Egg!
Tiffany wants to be a witch when she grows up. A proper one, with a pointy hat. And flying, she's always dreamed of flying (though it's cold up there, you have to wear really thick pants, two layers). But she's worried Tiffany isn't a very 'witchy' name. And a witch has always protected Tiffany's land, to stop the nightmares getting through. Now the nightmares have taken her brother, and it's up to her to get him back. With a horde of unruly fairies at her disposal, Tiffany is not alone. And she is the twentieth granddaughter of her Granny Aching: shepherdess extraordinaire, and protector of the land. Tiffany Aching. Now there's a rather good name for a witch. 'Quite, quite brilliant' Starburst THE FIRST BOOK IN THE TIFFANY ACHING SERIES
It began as a sudden strange fancy . . . Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape took more time . . . And now she's enlisted in the army, and searching for her lost brother. But there's a war on. There's always a war on. And Polly and her fellow recruits are suddenly in the thick of it, without any training, and the enemy is hunting them. All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army and a vampire with a lust for coffee. Well . . . They have the Secret. And as they take the war to the heart of the enemy, they have to use all the resources of . . . the Monstrous Regiment.
Eleven-year-old Tiffany Aching wants to be a real witch. But a real witch doesn't casually step out of her body, leaving it empty. Tiffany does- and there's something just waiting for an empty body to take over. Something horrible, which can't ever die. Now Tiffany's got to learn to be a real witch really quickly, with the help of arch-witch Mistress Weatherwax and the truly amazing Miss Level. 'Crivens! And us!' Oh, yes. And the Wee Free Men - the rowdiest, toughest, smelliest bunch of fairies ever to be thrown out of Fairyland. They'll fight anything... Wise, witty and wonderfully inventive, A HAT FULL OF SKY is Terry Pratchett's second novel about Tiffany Aching and the Wee Free Men. His first novel for younger readers set in Discworld, THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS, won the Carnegie Medal.
'Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.'Imprisoned
in Ankh-Morpork, con artist Moist von Lipwig is offered a choice: to be
executed or to accept a job as the city's Postmaster General.It's a tough
decision, but he's already survived one hanging and isn't in the mood to try
it again.The Post Office is down on its luck: beset by mountains of
undelivered mail, eccentric employees, and a dangerous secret order. To save
his skin, Moist will need to restore the postal service to its former glory,
with the help of tough talking activist Adora Belle Dearheart. Who happens to
be very attractive, in an 'entire womanful of anger' kind of way.But there's
new technology to compete against and an evil chairman who will stop at
nothing to delay Ankh-Morpork's post for good . . .'One of the best
expressions of his unstoppable flow of comic invention' The TimesGoing Postal
is the first book in the Moist von Lipwig series, but you can read the
Discworld novels in any order.
When witch-in-training Tiffany Aching accidentally interrupts the Dance of the Seasons and awakens the interest of the elemental spirit of Winter, she requires the help of the six-inch-high, sword-wielding, sheep-stealing Wee Free Men to put the seasons aright
It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar…
The wizards of Unseen University in the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed forever.
A man with no eyes. No eyes at all. Two tunnels in his head ...Somewhere - some time - there's a tangled ball of evil and spite, of hatred and malice, that has woken up. And it's waking up all the old stories too - stories about evil old witches...
"The 39th installment in the New York Times bestselling "Discworld" canon from Terry Pratchett, "the purely funniest English writer since Wodehouse." (Washington Post Book World)"--
The new Discworld novel from Britain's number one bestselling writer sees the Disc's first train come steaming into town. To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork -- a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all of the elements: earth, air, fire and water. This being Ankh-Morpork, it's soon drawing astonished crowds, some of whom caught the zeitgeist early and arrive armed with notepads and very sensible rainwear. Moist von Lipwig is not a man who enjoys hard work -- as master of the Post Office, the Mint and the Royal Bank his input is, of course, vital... but largely dependent on words, which are fortunately not very heavy and don't always need greasing. However, he does enjoy being alive, which makes a new job offer from Vetinari hard to refuse. Steam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mister Simnel, the man wi' t'flat cap and sliding rule who has an interesting arrangement with the sine and cosine. Moist will have to grapple with gallons of grease, goblins, a fat controller with a history of throwing employees down the stairs and some very angry dwarfs if he's going to stop it all going off the rails.
A SHIVERING OF WORLDSDeep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength.A shivering of worlds. Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering…
