Guards! Guards! (Original title: Guards! Guards!) Is a novel by Terry Pratchett . It is the eighth Discworld novel and the first to deal with the Ankh-Morpork City Guard. Guards! Guards! appeared in 1989. The protagonists are Captain Mumm, the alcoholic, and a naive recruit named Karotte Eisengießersohn , who also appear in later city guard novels.
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This novel introduces the night watch in its original cast with its depraved professional approach. Led by the drinking-addicted Captain Samuel Mumm , Sergeant Fred Colon and Corporal Cecil W. St. J. "Nobby" Nobbs eke out their embarrassing watchful lives. That only changes when a new recruit from the Spitzhorn Mountains, the young carrot iron founder's son, enters the scene. The two meter tall adopted dwarf is full of enthusiasm, understands nothing metaphorical and knows the law inside out.
While the guard is growing into a new self-image, a group of quarrelsome little minds under the leadership of the Supreme Great Master tries to bring the monarchy back to the city. They summon a great dragon that is supposed to spread a little terror, only to be defeated by a well-groomed hero. Then the city savior would ascend the throne and, advised by the Supreme Great Master, rule as a puppet king. It actually succeeds in summoning the dragon, but the creature becomes independent and takes over power itself. The city has a dragon king.
Mumm and his people now have to deal with the kite. Contact with Lady Käsedick , a marsh kite breeder, is helpful in this situation . With their help and with the support of Eroll, an apparently degenerate swamp kite, the guard finally manages to master the situation.
The Scholars of the Disc World (1999, German 2004) • The Philosophers of the Round World. More from the scholars of the Discworld (2002, German 2004) • Darwin and the Gods of the Discworld (2005, German 2006) • The Last Judgment. The Science of Discworld 4 (2013, German 2013)
Other books
The Disc World from A – Z (with Stephen Briggs ; 1994, German 1996) • The Disc World Album (1996, German 2001) • GURPS Disc World (with Phil Masters ; 1998, German 1999) • Nanny Oggs Cookbook (1999, German 2001) . 2001) • GURPS Discworld Also (with Phil Masters ; 2001) • The Art of Discworld (2004, German 2006) • Where's my Cow (2005) • Wit and Wisdom of Discworld (2007, German 2010) • Myths and legends the Discworld (with Jacqueline Simpson ; 2008, German 2009) • The World of Poo (2012) • Fools, Thieves and Vampires - The best of ten years of Discworld calendars (with Stephen Briggs ; 2012, German 2012)
Discworld maps
The Streets of Ankh-Morpork - A Discworld Map (1993; Ger. 1996) • The Discworld Mapp (1995) • A Tourist Guide to Lancre - A Discworld Mapp (1998) • Death's Domain - A Discworld Mapp (1999) • More complete and indispensable Ankh-Morpork city guide (2012, German 2013) • Mrs. Bradshaw's most useful handbook for all routes of the Hygienic Railway Ankh-Morpork and Sto Plain (2014, German 2015)
The whole madness (2004, German 2007) • Big words (2012, German 2018) • Twisted dragon (2014, German 2015) • The vacuum-sucking fright screw (2016, German 2018)
