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Stuff just turns up like that.Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. Suddenly, he knew of what this particular horseman would be a harbinger." In a direct quote Pratchett revealed his satisfaction with this coincidence, "I thought chaos – yes! Chaos, the oldest.

Pratchett stated that he had picked the name at random, and was later "astonished when he noticed what it sounded like backwards. One example of Narrativia's intervention from Thief Of Time was the naming of a key character, Ronnie Soak, the forgotten fifth horseman of the apocalypse. Writing process ĭuring a 2011 interview, Pratchett discussed his process for writing, and mentioned a self-invented goddess of writers called Narrativia, whom he believed to be smiling upon him throughout his career. Īt Infinity Plus, John Grant noted that it has "fewer moments of uproarious humour than" the majority of Pratchett's oeuvre, and that the "narrative fails to engender any sense of urgency in the places where it should", concluding that although "one could swiftly lay hands on a dozen genre-fantasy novels that are less worthwhile", it was not Pratchett's best work. but there will be plenty of internal chuckling". At the SF Site, Steven H Silver observed that the book's parodying of action films is "masterful", and commended Pratchett for how "fresh" the humor was-while conceding that "reader(s) may not laugh out loud. Īt The Guardian, Sam Jordison called it "as complicated, daft, hilarious and satisfying as vintage PG Wodehouse: part kung fu epic, part philosophical novel, part mind-bending experiment with chaos theory (and a piss-take of those three things)", and categorized it as a book to "give (readers) hope".

Thief of Time was shortlisted for the 2002 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel.

Lu-Tze – a powerful member of the History Monks masquerading as a humble sweeper.

Susan Sto Helit – Death's granddaughter.

Jeremy Clockson – a master clockmaker tasked with creating the perfect clock, whose name is a pun on British broadcaster Jeremy Clarkson.

Death – the anthropomorphic personification of Death, or Grim Reaper, a recurring and popular character in the Discworld series.

Meanwhile, Lu-Tze of the History Monks leads gifted young apprentice Lobsang Ludd in a desperate mission. Death discovers their plans, but cannot act against them directly, so he instead sends his granddaughter Susan Sto Helit. The Auditors hire young clockmaker Jeremy Clockson to build a perfect glass clock, without telling him that this will stop time and thereby eliminate human unpredictability from the universe. It was the last Discworld novel with a cover by Josh Kirby. Thief of Time is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 26th book in his Discworld series.