Maskerade

least—”
    “I mean we Three haven’t Met . You know…officially…”
    “All right…When shall we three meet?”
    “We’re already here.”
    “All right. When shall—?”
    “Just shut up and get out the marshmallows. Agnes, give Nanny the marshmallows.”
    “Yes, Granny.”
    “And mind you don’t burn mine.”
    Granny sat back. It was a clear night, although clouds mounting toward the hub promised snow soon. A few sparks flew up toward the stars. She looked around proudly.
    “Isn’t this nice ,” she said.

About the Author
    Terry Pratchett’s novels have sold more than thirty million (give or take a few million) copies worldwide. He lives in England.
    www.terrypratchettbooks.com
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Praise for TERRY PRATCHETT’s
DISCWORLD
    “Smart and funny.”
    Denver Post
    “Discworld is more complicated and satisfactory than Oz…. It has the energy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland . It also has an intelligent wit and a truly original grim and comic grasp of the nature of things.”
    A.S. Byatt
    “Humorously entertaining (and subtly thought-provoking) fantasy…Pratchett’s Discworld books are filled with humor and with magic, but they’re rooted in, of all things, real life and cold, hard reason.”
    Contra Costa Times
    “Pratchett has created an alternate universe full of trolls, dwarfs, wizards, and other fantasy elements, and he uses that universe to reflect on our own culture with entertaining and gloriously funny results. It’s an accomplishment nothing short of magical.”
    Chicago Tribune
    “Discworld takes the classic fantasy universe through its logical, and comic, evolution.”
    Cleveland Plain Dealer
    “In [Pratchett’s] range of invented characters, his adroit storytelling, and his clear-eyed acceptance of humankind’s foibles, he reminds me of no one in English literature as much as Geoffrey Chaucer. No kidding.”
    Washington Post Book World
    “What makes Terry Pratchett’s fantasies so entertaining is that their humor depends on the characters first, on the plot second, rather than the other way around. The story isn’t there simply to lead from one slapstick pratfall to another pun. Its humor is genuine and unforced.”
    Ottawa Citizen
    “Terry Pratchett seems constitutionally unable to write a page without at least a twitch of the grin muscles….[But] the notions Pratchett plays with are nae so narrow or nae so silly as your ordinary British farce. Seriously.”
    San Diego Union-Tribune
    “Pratchett, for those not yet lucky enough to have discovered him, is one of England’s most highly regarded satirists. Nothing—not religion, not politics, not anything—is safe from him.”
    South Bend Tribune
    “Think J.R.R. Tolkien with a sharper, more satiric edge.”
    Houston Chronicle
    “The Discworld novels are a phenomenon.”
    Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
    “Consistently, inventively mad…wild and wonderful.”
    Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine
    “He is head and shoulders above the best of the rest. He is screamingly funny. He is wise. He has style.”
    Daily Telegraph (London)
    “Pratchett has now moved beyond the limits of humorous fantasy and should be recognized as one of the more significant contemporary English language satirists.”
    Publishers Weekly
    “Pratchett’s humor is international, satirical, devious, knowing, irreverent, unsparing, and, above all, funny.”
    Kirkus Reviews
    “Pratchett demonstrates just how great the distance is between one-or two-joke writers and the comic masters whose work will be read into the next century.”
    Locus
    “If Terry Pratchett is not yet an institution, he should be.”
    Fantasy & Science Fiction

O THER B OOKS BY T ERRY P RATCHETT
    The Carpet People
    The Dark Side of the Sun
    Strata • Truckers
    Diggers • Wings
    Only You Can Save Mankind
    Johnny and the Dead • Johnny and the Bomb
    The Unadulterated Cat (with Gray Jollife)
    Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman)
    T HE D ISCWORLD ® S ERIES :
    Going Postal • Monstrous Regiment • Night Watch
    The Last Hero • The Truth • Thief of Time
    The Fifth Elephant • Carpe Jugulum
    The Last Continent • Jingo
    Hogfather • Feet of Clay • Maskerade
    Interesting Times • Soul Music • Men at Arms
    Lords and Ladies • Small Gods
    Witches Abroad • Reaper Man
    Moving Pictures • Eric (with Josh Kirby)
    Guards! Guards!