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The Dark Side of the Sun

By Terry Pratchett

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| Paperback | 9780552133265

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Book Description

Dom Salabos had a lot of advantages.

As heir to a huge fortune he had an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuitry), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as a godfather, a security chief who even ran checks on himself, and on Dom's home world even death was not always fatal.

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3 Reviews

Well... I'm somewhat relieved that the worst Pratchett's novel that I ever read isn't set on Discworld, however I'm still disappointed. The Dark Side of the Sun is just an average book without any particular strong point, a sci-fi story like many others, nothing more, nothing less. Sometimes ... (continue)

Well... I'm somewhat relieved that the worst Pratchett's novel that I ever read isn't set on Discworld, however I'm still disappointed. The Dark Side of the Sun is just an average book without any particular strong point, a sci-fi story like many others, nothing more, nothing less. Sometimes you can almost feel the witty and sarcastic style which define Pratchett as a writer, but it's too elusive to catch the reader. Luckily a world on the back of four elephants on top of a turtle will come... and the fantasy genre will change forever.

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Baldurian said on Sep 20, 2011 | Add your feedback

Tasteless, clueless. A [science fiction] novel with no spirit and ideas. What a pity...

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Claire Zachanassian said on Jan 10, 2011 | Add your feedback

One of Pratchett's weaker stories. Faint pre-echoes of themes developed in Strata and Discworld.

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kbob said on Jan 7, 2010 | Add your feedback