The Dark Side of the Sun


	The Dark Side of the Sun

tamilgodstone

10-25-2007 9:26 PM

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fiction, sci-fi, science iction, terry pratchett, parody

tamilgodstone says:

This is one of only two hard sci fi parodies that I know of by British author Terry Pratchett (more famously the author of the Discworld novels.)

Strangely, many seemingly unrelated sword-and-sorcery themes are brought up in this book only to be developed in the Discworld novels.

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