Ok, inspired by @rincewind.run and @ursulav over on bsky (I don't know Micah's handle here?), here are 10 US Kindle copies of Terry Pratchett's REAPER MAN. Which I have, and have read, and love. As always with pterry, I'm going to babble a bit, because the world is so much worse for his loss.
pterry was a genius. He understood humanity, deeply and thoroughly. And he could convey that in writing. That's double-genius, or at least 1.5.
It took several books in the Discworld series to get there, but he blended humour, humanity, and teaching. Think of them as novel-length parables, and you won't be wrong. In this case, we learn what it means to be human in an uncaring universe. (Also, there's a John Henry retelling which is both deeply meaningful, and utterly hilarious when you realize that it was a setup for a book-long joke.)
This is a Death book, and pretty standalone -- all you need to know, really, is that the Discworld has an anthropomorphic Death, and this Death is... unusual. Heavily leaning into the anthropos for the morph, really.
There is a typographical trick that pterry apparently fought for, and it doesn't work so well on ebooks, alas.
This book has one of the most joyous endings I have ever read.
Read it. Tell someone else about the giveaway. Or both.
Add comment