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Название книги: Guards! Guards!
Автор(ы): Тэрри Пратчетт
Жанр: Юмористическая фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Guards_-Guards_-192736.html
They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of heroic fantasy is identical: it is, round about Chapter Three (or ten minutes into the film) to rush into the room, attack the hero one at a time, and be slaughtered. No one ever asks them if they wanted to.This book is dedicated to those fine men.And also to Mike Harrison, Mary Gentle, Neil Gaiman and all the others who assisted with and laughed at the idea of L-space; too bad we never used Schrödinger's Paperback ...This is where the dragons went.They lie ...Not dead, not asleep. Not waiting, because waiting implies expectation. Possibly the word we're looking for here is.... . . dormant.And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. Not a cubic inch there but is filled by a claw, a talon, a scale, the tip of a tail, so the effect is like one of those trick drawings and your eyeballs eventually realise that the space betw
Название книги: Guards! Guards!
Автор(ы): Тэрри Пратчетт
Жанр: Юмористическая фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Guards_-Guards_-192736.html
They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of heroic fantasy is identical: it is, round about Chapter Three (or ten minutes into the film) to rush into the room, attack the hero one at a time, and be slaughtered. No one ever asks them if they wanted to.This book is dedicated to those fine men.And also to Mike Harrison, Mary Gentle, Neil Gaiman and all the others who assisted with and laughed at the idea of L-space; too bad we never used Schrödinger's Paperback ...This is where the dragons went.They lie ...Not dead, not asleep. Not waiting, because waiting implies expectation. Possibly the word we're looking for here is.... . . dormant.And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. Not a cubic inch there but is filled by a claw, a talon, a scale, the tip of a tail, so the effect is like one of those trick drawings and your eyeballs eventually realise that the space betw
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