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Title: Good Omens
By: Terry Pratchett
Discworld’s Terry Pratchett and Sandman’s Neil Gaiman teamed up to develop one of Gaiman’s short story ideas into an engaging funny novel about Armageddon. If you are familiar with either of these authors, you are not surprised. Yes, strictly speaking, the Divine Plan does seem to be developing as written ... [Read more]
Posted by Ruby Boggs on Sept. 23, 2010
Tags: fiction, fantasy
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Melting Pot of Gods and Goddesses
Title: American Gods
By: Neil Gaiman
American Gods offers an answer to the question: What happens to the gods of different cultures when their followers emigrate to the United States? Do the gods follow them? Do they have influence here? How do Norse gods get along with Aztec gods? Gaiman describes the journey of Shadow, traveling ... [Read more]
Posted by Ruby Boggs on Sept. 2, 2010
Tags: fiction, fantasy
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Discworld, world and mirror of worlds- Night Watch
Title: Guards! Guards!
By: Terry Pratchett
"Ankh-Morpork! Brawling city of a hundred thousand souls! And, as the patrician privately observed, ten times that number of actual people." A dragon is ravaging the largest city on the Disc and it's up to Captain Vimes and the dregs of the Night Watch to save the city. But is ... [Read more]
Posted by Catamount on Dec. 21, 2009
Tags: science fiction, fantasy
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