Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) was an English author best known for the Discworld series, a sequence of forty-one comic fantasy novels set on a flat world carried through space on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle. Across four decades, the Discworld grew from a parody of sword-and-sorcery fantasy into one of the most sustained works of social satire in English literature, examining politics, religion, science, gender, race, capitalism, and the nature of stories themselves. Pra...
Theatre of Cruelty
Theatre of Cruelty
Synopsis
Sam Vimes investigates a theft in the night streets of Ankh-Morpork — a crime that, characteristically, turns out to be considerably more complicated than it first appears. A short story set in the early years of the City Watch, capturing Vimes at his most laconic and the city at its most atmospheric. Originally published in WTVA Newsletter (1993) and later collected in A Blink of the Screen.
Vibe
Genres
Characters
Sam VimesProtagonist
Commander of the City Watch — investigating a crime at night, which is when Ankh-Morpork makes the least sense and Vimes is most at home.
Carrot IronfounderssonSupporting
The Watch's literal-minded constable, whose earnest interpretation of every situation is both useful and alarming.
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Places
Edition
Theatre of CrueltyeBook, Janu
4 pages
