Strata - Couverture souple

Pratchett, Terry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0450049779 ISBN 13 : 9780450049774

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1982

Synopsis

A SF novel about a company which builds planets.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

The Company builds planets.

Kin Arad is a high-ranking official of the Company. After twenty-one decades of living, and with the help of memory surgery, she is at the top of her profession. Discovering two of her employees have placed a fossilized plesiosaur in the wrong stratum, not to mention the fact it is holding a placard which reads 'End Nuclear Testing Now', doesn't dismay the woman who built a mountain range in the shape of her initials during her own high-spirited youth.

But then came a discovery of something which did intrigue Kin Arad. A flat earth was something new ...

Frist published in 1981, Strata is an early exploration of the idea that was to become the best-selling Discworld series.

Biographie de l'auteur

Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. He died in March 2015.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1982
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0450049779
• ISBN 13: 9780450049774
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible