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Ankh-Morpork City Watch
The Ankh-Morpork City Watch is a fictional police force appearing in Terry Prattchett's Discworld series. The Watch primarily functions out of the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork, but some stories do include members of the watch elsewhere in the world. The watch and its members are the primary topic of 8 novels and one short story, listed below in order of publication. *''Guards! Guards!'' (1989); *"Theatre of Cruelty" (1993) (short story); *'' Men at Arms'' (1993); *'' Feet of Clay'' (1996); *'' Jingo'' (1997); *'' The Fifth Elephant'' (1999); *'' Night Watch'' (2002); *''Thud!'' (2005); *'' Snuff'' (2011) The novels generally feature Watch Commander Sam Vimes as protagonist and often draw on the conventions of crime novels. The Watch and its individual members also appear as secondary characters in many other stories in the Discworld series, especially those set in Ankh-Morpork. The Watch was also a loose inspiration for the 2021 fantasy police procedural television ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Theatre Of Cruelty (Discworld)
"Theatre of Cruelty" is a short ''Discworld'' story by Terry Pratchett written in 1993. The name derives from a concept of Antonin Artaud (Theatre of Cruelty). It was originally written for W. H. Smith ''Bookcase'' magazine and was then slightly modified and extended, being published again in the programme of the OryCon 15 convention, and then again in '' The Wizards of Odd'', a compilation of fantasy short stories. It has since been made available on the Internet along with dozens of translations by fans, with Pratchett having stated, "I don't want to see it distributed in print anywhere but don't mind people downloading it for their own enjoyment." The story involves both the Ankh-Morpork City Watch and a parallel of Punch and Judy. Plot A murder has been committed: a street entertainer, found apparently battered to death with a very small blunt object, on him bite marks from a very small crocodile. Investigating the incident in his typically direct manner, Carrot Ironfoun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |