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Goldsboro Books

Strata

Strata

by Terry Pratchett

Publisher Colin Smythe

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  • Hardcover

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  • Book Condition & Notes

    A near-fine first edition of Sir Terry Pratchett's second book. In the original green binding with gold lettering. There are several very slight wrinkles to the first 6 pages, but otherwise, an unblemished copy. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket, with a small strip of sun discoloration along the top of the back cover.

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About the book

THE COMPANY BUILDS PLANETS.

Kin Arad is a high-ranking official of the Company. After twenty-one decades of living, and with the help of memory surgery, she is at the top of her profession. Discovering two of her employees have placed a fossilized plesiosaur in the wrong stratum, not to mention the fact it is holding a placard which reads, 'End Nuclear Testing Now', doesn't dismay the woman who built a mountain range in the shape of her initials during her own high-spirited youth.

But then came discovery of something which did intrigue Kin Arad. A flat earth was something new...

About the Author

Terry Pratchett

Sir Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of fifty bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. Worldwide sales of his books now stand at 70 million, and they have been translated into thirty-seven languages.

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