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Night watch : a novel of Discworld

Truth! Justice! Freedom! And a hard-boiled egg! Commander Sam Vines 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; he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his young self 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, rebels, secret policeman and other children of the revolution.

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  • "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."
  • "Vimes travels back in time where he is faced with the dilemma of fixing past wrongs and thus changing the good things about his own future."
  • "Sam Vimes can't tell what kind of day he's having. One moment he's fighting a ruthless murderer on top of the library of the Unseen University. The next, he's thrown back in time. But, the city's on the brink of revolt, and that killer he was after in the future is with him here in the past, which is now the present. Now all Vimes has to do is figure out how to get back home--but first he has to change the outcome of a bloody rebellion."
  • "Truth! Justice! Freedom! And a hard-boiled egg! Commander Sam Vines 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; he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his young self 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, rebels, secret policeman and other children of the revolution."@en
  • "One moment, Sir Sam Vimes is in his old patrolman form, chasing a sweet-talking psychopath across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork. The next, he's lying naked in the street, having been sent back thirty years courtesy of a group of time-manipulating monks who won't leave well enough alone. This Discworld is a darker place that Vimes remembers too well, three decades before his title, fortune, beloved wife, and impending first child. Worse still, the murderer he's pursuing has been transported back also. Worst of all, it's the eve of a fabled street rebellion that needlessly destroyed more than a few good (and not so good) men. Sam Vimes knows his duty, and by changing history he might just save some worthwhile necks'though it could cost him his own personal future. Plus there's a chance to steer a novice watchman straight and teach him a valuable thing or three about policing, an impressionable young copper named Sam Vimes.</"@en
  • "Sent back in time, Sam Vimes encounters a younger version of himself and gets mistaken for his former commander, a situation that prompts him to change the outcome of a rebellion."@en
  • "Sam Vimes, running hero of the Guards sequence, finds himself cast back in time to the Ankh-Morpork of his youth--a much nastier city, with an actively deranged Patrician and a sadistic secret police--and finding himself filling in for Keel, the tough honest copper who teaches the young Vimes everything he knows. And, more worryingly, who dies heroically in the insurrection Vimes knows to be imminent. With a psychopath from his own time rising in the vile ranks of the Cable Street Unmentionables complicating things, Vimes has to ensure that history takes its course so that he will have the right future to go back to, and to keep his younger self alive."
  • "De bevelhebber van de stadswacht op de planeet Schijfwereld belandt terug in de tijd en neemt tijdens een historisch oproer in de stad de leiding van de nachtwacht op zich."
  • "Eine geniale Mischung aus Witz, Ironie und philosophischem Tiefsinn. Durch einen Blitzschlag wird Kommandeur Mumm von der Stadtwache dreissig Jahre in die Vergangenheit versetzt: Im alten Ankh-Morpork herrschen bürgerkriegsähnliche Zustände. Die Wache besteht aus korrupten Versagern, und einer von ihnen ist der junge Obergefreite Sam Mumm, der den schädlichen Einflüssen eines gefährlichen Verbrechers zu erliegen droht ... Terry Pratchett, geboren 1948, fand im zarten Alter von 13 Jahren den ersten Käufer für eine seiner Geschichten. Heute zählt der kleine Mann mit dem grossen schwarzen Schlapphut zu den erfolgreichsten Autoren Grossbritanniens und ist einer der populärsten Fantasy-Autoren der Welt. Seit 1983 schreibt er Scheibenwelt-Romane. Inzwischen widmet er sich ganz seiner Schöpfung, und seine Gemeinde wird täglich grösser. Dabei ist er zweifellos der Autor mit dem skurrilsten ehemaligen Beruf: Er war jahrelang Pressesprecher für fünf Atomkraftwerke beim Central Electricity Generating Board. Nach eigener Auskunft hat er nur deshalb noch kein Buch darüber geschrieben, weil es ihm ja doch keiner glauben würde. Seinen Sinn für Realsatire hat der schrille Job jedenfalls geschärft. Von seinen Scheibenwelt-Romanen wurden weltweit rund 65 Millionen Exemplare verkauft, seine Werke sind in 37 Sprachen übersetzt. Für seine Verdienste um die englische Literatur wurde ihm sogar die Ritterwürde verliehen. Umgeben von den modernsten Computern (und so durch ein Stück Schnur mit dem Rest der Welt verbunden) lebt Terry Pratchett mit seiner Frau Lyn in der englischen Grafschaft Wiltshire."
  • "Truth! Justice! Freedom! And a hard-boiled egg! 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; he has a job to do."@en

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  • "Humorous stories"
  • "Humorous stories"@en
  • "Fantasy novels"
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "English fiction"
  • "Fantasy"
  • "Fantasy"@en
  • "Powieść fantastyczna angielska"@pl
  • "Fantasy fiction, English"
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Fantasy romány"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl
  • "Drama"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Satire"
  • "Fantasy fiction"
  • "Fantasy fiction"@en

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  • "Ronda de noche una novela del mundodisco"@es
  • "Straz nocna (Polish)"
  • "Der Nachtwächter : ein Scheibenwelt-Roman"
  • "Night watch : a novel of Discworld®"
  • "Ronde de nuit"
  • "Nochnai︠a︡ strazha"
  • "Ronda de noche"
  • "Night watch MP3"
  • "Night watch : no. 27 - Discworld series"
  • "Night Watch"
  • "Noční hlídka"
  • "Night watch, Terry Pratchett"
  • "Night watch : a novel of Discworld"@en
  • "Night watch : a Discworld novel"@en
  • "Night watch : a Discworld novel"
  • "Night watch : [A Discworld novel]"
  • "Die Nachtwächter : ein Scheibenwelt-Roman"
  • "Night watch a Discworld novel"@en
  • "Night watch"
  • "Night watch"@en
  • "Night Watch : Discworld Novel 29"
  • "Ночная стража"
  • "Straż nocna"@pl
  • "Ronda de noche : una novela del mundodisco"
  • "Die Nachtwächter Ein Scheibenwelt-Roman"
  • "Night watch : [a discworld novel]"
  • "Die Nachtwächter : ein Roman von der bizarren Scheibenwelt"
  • "De Nachtwacht"
  • "Night watch a novel of Discworld"@en
  • "Night watch : [a Discworld novel]"@en

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