Raising Steam: (Discworld novel 40) (Discworld Novels)

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Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton which has come to mean an idyllic place. Moist is apparently yet another person who was traumatized by the picture of the jolly goblin when he was a child.

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If the torturer drops by and doesn't hear contented purring, he opens it and whacks the prisoner over the head. but largely dependent on words, which are fortunately not very heavy and don't always need greasing. So it's just as well that the latest book concerns the arrival of the Discworld's very own steam locomotive. In the Long Earth series, the Gap is the space between parallel universes where there is no Earth and Pratchett hints at a similar kind of space like limbo in Discworld cosmology.Everything's Deader with Zombies: One potential railway route is rejected for being infested with zombies.

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Playing Drunk: A lot of landowners tried to get Moist drunk while he was negotiating a right-of-way for the railroad through their lands. Page 25 - Schmaltzberg On Roundworld, Schmaltz refers to kind of pork, chicken or goose fat often used as a bread spread in German and Polish cuisine.Back in Ankh-Morpork, Dick Simnel is knighted, Harry King receives a peerage, and the City Watch officers who helped defend the train receive medals. Sara Sklaroff for The Washington Post, [9] praised Pratchett's innate ability to balance the silly and the serious. The inventor of the steam engine is Dick Simnel, son of Ned Simnel, who notably failed to invent a steam engine in Reaper Man. Thirty years on, the Discworld has grown so solid and so weighty that any new novel has to exert a great deal of narrative power just to get that world moving at a decent pace. Pratchett uses this "trains running on time theme" in many of his novels, including a previous Moist von Lipwig book, Going Postal.

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Meanwhile, conservative factions among the dwarves, fearing that this brave new world might destroy thousands of years of tradition, take violent action against the accoutrements of modernity. Crystal Dragon Jesus: Tak is turned into this for the purposes of the plot, as the rogue Grags use him as justification for their crimes.Continuity Nod: This book is the uncontested champion for "most continuity nods in one Discworld book". Similarly, dwarf names are usually drawn from the names of these seven dwarfs, reflecting the same kinds of emotions; bashful, grumpy, dopey, sleepy, etc with a Scandinavian addition of adding 'son' to the end as in Bashfulson. Swindon became an oasis of heavy industry in Wiltshire in an otherwise entirely agricultural economy. Because he had not served at least seven years as an apprentice, the Glasgow Guild of Hammermen (which had jurisdiction over any artisans using hammers) blocked his application, despite there being no other mathematical instrument makers in Scotland.