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Raising Steam

Raising Steam
Terry Pratchett

Raising Steam is the 40th Discworld novel, written by Terry Pratchett. It was the penultimate one published before his death in 2015. Originally due to be published on 24 October 2013, it was pushed back to 7 November 2013 . It stars Moist von Lipwig, and features the introduction of locomotives to the Discworld , and an entirely new character.The cover of the novel was exclusively revealed on Pratchett's Facebook page on 6 August 2013.An update to Mr Pratchett's website late October 2013 revealed that characters include Harry King, Moist von Lipwig, Adora Belle Dearheart and Sgt Fred Colon amongst others.

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“The commander went, as they say in Ankh-Morpork, totally Librarian on them.”

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“That's the trouble, you see. When you've had hatred on your tongue for such a long time, you don't know how to spit it out.”

Terry Pratchett book Raising Steam

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“In Ankh-Morpork you can be whoever you want to be and sometimes people laugh and sometimes they clap, and mostly and beautifully, they don't really care.”

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