"Mighty Battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and his sons Terror and Panic, and daughter Clancy).

The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise What I Did On My Holidays. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. Warlords are struggling for power. War (and Clancy) are spreading through the ancient cities.

And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is:

Rincewind the Wizard, who can't even spell the word wizard ...

Cohen the barbarian hero, five foot tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime's experience of not dying ...

...and a very special butterfly."

After a long absence Rincewind is back and he's off to China(The Counterweight Continent), home of Twoflower. This book is a bit more stationary than the Rincewinds other adventures but of course the best part is the return of Twoflower. Cohen the barbarian from "The Light Fantastic" also makes a comeback.

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