Raising Steam: (Discworld novel 40) - Discworld Novels

A paperback edition with the original cover art of the classic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the third book in the Industrial Revolution series, part of the Discworld novels.

One of the most consistently funny writers around Ben Aaronovitch, The Guardian

Truly a classic novel from the master of meaningful comic fantasy 5-star reader review

'The world lives between those who say it cannot be done and those who say that it can . . . it's just a matter of thinking creatively.'

Moist von Lipwig is a con man turned civil servant.

As head of the Royal Bank and Post Office of Ankh-Morpork, he doesn't really want or need another job. But when the Patrician, Lord Vetinari, gives you a task, you do it or suffer the consequences. In Moist's case, death.

A brand-new invention has come to the city: a steam locomotive named Iron Girder, to be precise. With the railway's introduction and rapid expansion, Vetinari enlists Moist to represent the government and keep things on track.

But as with all new technology, some people have objections, and Moist will have to use every trick in his arsenal to keep the trains running . . .

Raising Steam is the third and final book in the Industrial Revolutionseries, but the Discworld novels can be read in any order.

Praise for the Discworld series:

'[Pratchetts] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction'Mail on Sunday

Pratchett is a master storyteller Guardian

'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George R.R. Martin

'One of those rare writers who appeals to everyone Daily Express

One of the most consistently funny writers around Ben Aaronovitch

Masterful and brilliant Fantasy & Science Fiction

Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable'The Times

The best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse' The Sunday Telegraph

Nothing short of magical Chicago Tribune

'Consistently funny, consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns' SFX

[Discworld is] compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our worldThere's never been anything quite like it Evening Standard