Raising Steam
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That's insane. Nearly all of the recent U.S. DW books have been released either concurrently or within a couple weeks of the UK release. A six-month delay for the US publication will cost HC thousands of US sales as people here will either get the HC imported from the UK (or hopefully Canada) or get it on Kindle. I may do that myself (or maybe I can convince one of you fine UK folks to ship me a copy). 
Or order it from here -
http://www.bookdepository.com/Raising-Steam-Terry-Pratchett/9780857522276
Free delivery to the US for the UK edition. I've gotten a fair few books that come out in the US first.
http://www.bookdepository.com/Raising-Steam-Terry-Pratchett/9780857522276
Free delivery to the US for the UK edition. I've gotten a fair few books that come out in the US first.
Good tip, Pip!
Also noticed that's it's available in November of Amazon's Canada site. However, given shipping it might cost less to order it from the Book Depository.
Somehow, in the end I think that HC will ultimately move back the US publishing date much closer to the UK date. We Yanks won't be willing to wait six months.
Also noticed that's it's available in November of Amazon's Canada site. However, given shipping it might cost less to order it from the Book Depository.
Somehow, in the end I think that HC will ultimately move back the US publishing date much closer to the UK date. We Yanks won't be willing to wait six months.
Me, too. Orcs are big enough to pass for something passing for human; the being on the cover isn't big enough but is about right for a goblin. The things throwing axes might be orcs or Deep Downer dwarfs or something entirely new.
I think that if either of them is Moist, it's the grinning engineer - he likes to push things to the ultimate, so he'd enjoy driving the train as fast as possible. The frightened one is probably the designer, who knows the limits of the materials.
I think that if either of them is Moist, it's the grinning engineer - he likes to push things to the ultimate, so he'd enjoy driving the train as fast as possible. The frightened one is probably the designer, who knows the limits of the materials.
I wouldn't make anything of that. In Kidby's original illustration, neither hat is gold at all, and in the 'finished' cover it really isn't that 'gold' either.
What is weird to me is that in both Kidby's original illustration and the finished cover the terrified head next to the engineer doesn't seem to have a body...
What is weird to me is that in both Kidby's original illustration and the finished cover the terrified head next to the engineer doesn't seem to have a body...
Well, gold comes in different shades... rose gold, white gold, red gold... I admit I was kind of expecting a gilded hard hat but we can't have everything.
I think I see the frightened man holding onto something we can't see. I'm interpreting those white tubes as his sleeves. There's a bit of blue with cross-hatching where his shoulder ought to be and I'm interpreting that as a plaid waistcoat. The smiling one has his right arm in an odd position too - elbow held up and back as he leans forward, so his forearm is horizontal.
I think I see the frightened man holding onto something we can't see. I'm interpreting those white tubes as his sleeves. There's a bit of blue with cross-hatching where his shoulder ought to be and I'm interpreting that as a plaid waistcoat. The smiling one has his right arm in an odd position too - elbow held up and back as he leans forward, so his forearm is horizontal.
I see Waterstones are to get a different book cover – looks like the outside of a compartment of a non-corridor railway carriage with the same goblin hanging out of the window.
Still hoping the steam engine and carriages in the book will be a little more primitive than the examples Paul has used to base his paintings on.
Still hoping the steam engine and carriages in the book will be a little more primitive than the examples Paul has used to base his paintings on.
I assume everyone's seen this but since it wasn't menioned and there's been debate about the content of the book, the synopsis on Amazon reads as follows:
"To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork - a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all of the elements: earth, air, fire and water. This being Ankh-Morpork, it's soon drawing astonished crowds, some of whom caught the zeitgeist early and arrive armed with notepads and very sensible rainwear.
Moist von Lipwig is not a man who enjoys hard work - as master of the Post Office, the Mint and the Royal Bank his input is, of course, vital . . . but largely dependent on words, which are fortunately not very heavy and don't always need greasing. However, he does enjoy being alive, which makes a new job offer from Vetinari hard to refuse . . .
Steam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mister Simnel, the man wi' t'flat cap and sliding rule who has an interesting arrangement with the sine and cosine. Moist will have to grapple with gallons of grease, goblins, a fat controller with a history of throwing employees down the stairs and some very angry dwarfs if he's going to stop it all going off the rails . . ."
SO it's Moist book (sorry if I'm late to the party with this!). I await with some trepidation. Discworld plus steam trains is the kind of combination almost guaranteed to make me melt with the sheer force of my glee. But though I love Going Postal with a fiery passion, I didn't like Making Money much so I've yet to be convinced Moist can carry another book...
"To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork - a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all of the elements: earth, air, fire and water. This being Ankh-Morpork, it's soon drawing astonished crowds, some of whom caught the zeitgeist early and arrive armed with notepads and very sensible rainwear.
Moist von Lipwig is not a man who enjoys hard work - as master of the Post Office, the Mint and the Royal Bank his input is, of course, vital . . . but largely dependent on words, which are fortunately not very heavy and don't always need greasing. However, he does enjoy being alive, which makes a new job offer from Vetinari hard to refuse . . .
Steam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mister Simnel, the man wi' t'flat cap and sliding rule who has an interesting arrangement with the sine and cosine. Moist will have to grapple with gallons of grease, goblins, a fat controller with a history of throwing employees down the stairs and some very angry dwarfs if he's going to stop it all going off the rails . . ."
SO it's Moist book (sorry if I'm late to the party with this!). I await with some trepidation. Discworld plus steam trains is the kind of combination almost guaranteed to make me melt with the sheer force of my glee. But though I love Going Postal with a fiery passion, I didn't like Making Money much so I've yet to be convinced Moist can carry another book...
