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Dark Side of the Sun [Paperback]

Terry Pratchett (Author)
2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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Release Date: April 23 2002
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.

Why then, in an age when prediction was a science, was his future in doubt?

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“A continual delight, with its unexpected conceits and original inventions. And if Mr. Pratchett's tongue is frequently in his cheek, his parody of the science fiction idiom is always deft, knowledgeable and good humoured.” — Oxford Times

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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.

Why then, in an age when prediction was a science, was his future in doubt?

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2.0 out of 5 stars Don't bother May 4 2011
By Freedle
Format:Paperback
Being a major Terry Pratchett fan, I was excited to find a book by him that I had never heard of in my public library. I wondered what sort of story it might be. Discworld? An imaginary group of people living in our world like the Bromeliad trilogy or the Carpet People? More like Johnny and the Bomb?

Well, it turns out it's nothing like any of those. This is Pratchett as an early writer, who's trying out serious science fiction. When I didn't care after 4 pages, and I hadn't laughed (or started to care) by chapter 3, I realized that no, it wasn't going to get any better. But I didn't give up hope, I slogged on to chapter 6, where I have stopped and don't intend to read further.

If you would like to do a study on his writing style and how it has changed over the years, go ahead and read this book. It's interesting to see ideas from future books coming through in this one. But don't do it just for fun, because fun is not what you'll get. If you like that sort of thing, I'd instead recommend you read the first 2 or 3 books of the Discworld series to see how much richer and more detailed it became as he wrote more and more about it.
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1.0 out of 5 stars boring standard seventies SF Jun 6 2004
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
This was first published long before the Discworld books, and has very little in common with them. Not bad at all if you're looking for that style, but a terrible disappointment if you're into Discworld, Truckers, and other recent stuff by Pratchett.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Primordeal Pratchett Jan 22 2004
By Captain Video
Format:Paperback
One of Pterry's earliest books, The Dark Side of the Sun is a forerunner of his Discworld series, and is unrealated.

Not quite as good as the Discworld books, reading this book shows the evolution of his writing style as it progressed towards the best-selling greatness of today.

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