Thief of Time
Discworld, Book 26
by Terry Pratchett
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appears in Time Travel, Humor, and Fantasy.
Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed.And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like underwater how much time does a codfish need) to places like cities, where there's never enough time.But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock sta...
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appears in Time Travel, Humor, and Fantasy.
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