Interesting Times

A Novel of Discworld

Hardcover, 295 pages

English language

Published April 6, 1997 by Victor Gollancz.

ISBN:
978-0-06-105252-1
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"May you live in interesting times" is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld -- especially on the distinctly unmagical sorcerer Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life. But when a request for a "Great Wizzard" arrives in Ankh-Morpork via carrier albatross from the faraway Counterweight Continent, it's he who's sent as emissary. Chaos threatens to follow the impending demise of the Agatean Empire's current ruler. And, for some incomprehensible reason, someone believes Rincewind will have a mythic role in the war and wholesale bloodletting that will surely ensue. (Carnage is pretty much a given, since Cohen the Barbarian and his extremely elderly Silver Horde are busily formulating their own plan for looting, pillaging, and, er, looking wistfully at girls.) However, Rincewind firmly believes there are too many heroes already in the world, yet only one Rincewind. And he owes it …

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Subjects

  • Fiction - Fantasy
  • English Science Fiction And Fantasy
  • Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Science Fiction - General
  • Fantasy - Series
  • Discworld (Imaginary place)
  • Fantasy fiction