The case involves "pot hunters," who sift ruins illegally for pottery or other objects that collectors will buy. An anthropologist goes missing, and native American policemen Joe Leaphornand Jim Chee become involved from different angles. Hillerman's mystery is set on and near a large Navajo reservation near the four corners area.
The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Thief of Time is the fifth book in the Death series. For if the Perfect Clock starts ticking, time-as we know it-will end. Which means esteemed History Monk Lu-Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd have to put on some speed to stop the timepiece before it starts. Well, stop time, that is, by building the world's first truly accurate clock. While everyone talks about slowing down, one young horologist is about to do the unthinkable. Which is why, on Discworld, only the experts can manage it-the venerable Monks of History who store it and pump it from where it's wasted, like underwater (how much time does a codfish really need?) to places like cities, where busy denizens lament never having enough of it. Time itself is threatened - and it's up to the History Monks to save it in Sir Terry Pratchett's bestselling Discworld series.Įverybody wants more time. ‘You need an athithtant."Philosophical humor of the highest order." - Kirkus Reviews ‘No, no mithtake,’ said Igor, pulling a carpet bag out of the ruins of the crate. ‘I think there has been a mistake,’ he said. He recoiled instinctively, and then felt embarrassed and took them. My credentialth, thur.’Ī hand like an industrial accident held together with stitches thrust a sheaf of papers towards Jeremy. ‘Eight bloody dayth with no problemth, and thothe idiotth get it wrong on the doorthtep.’ It nodded at Jeremy. ‘I don’t know,’ it said, pulling bits of packing material off itself. Jeremy inserted the bar into a likely-looking crack, and pulled. ‘Soto said he saw him perform the Stance of the Coyote! The voice that had lately been swearing said, ‘If you would be tho good?’ ‘We cannot send him away now,’ he said at last. The acolyte thoughtfully watched a flight of white doves circle the monastery roofs. He never pays attention, he always knows the answers, and he can never tell you how he knows. Most of the time I think he’s not all there. But that sort of behaviour is disruptive. ‘So I take it you punished him for not answering the right question?’ To be honest, even I had to look up the answer.’ An extremely complex phase-space problem involving residual harmonics in n histories. I had been instructing the Fifth Djim field agents earlier and had left part of the test on the board. The Master of Novices looked embarrassed. * * * - Thief of Time (Terry Pratchett) | Read books online free without registration and downloading Terry Pratchett « Thief of Time» Subject: Comic Fantasy/Science-fiction * * *
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