Pyramids (Original title: Pyramids ) is a novel by Terry Pratchett . It is the seventh Discworld novel and the first to win the British Science Fiction Association Award for Fictional Literature. Pyramiden was released in 1989 and is set in a dead end in the Discworld, namely in Djelibeby , a rather desolate small state. The protagonist Pteppic is one of the few “mayflies” on the Discworld. He is only present in this work.
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The pharaoh's son Pteppicymon XXVIII. ("Pteppic") completed his training as an assassin in Ankh-Morpork. Shortly after passing his final examination, he has to return to his home country Djelibeby because of the sudden death of his father. As his successor, he strives for fundamental reforms, but encounters bitter resistance. The high priest Dios, already working in this capacity for Pteppic's father and great-grandfather, knows better and better what is good for the country. Under his conservative whispering, the heir to the throne ordered the largest pyramid ever built in honor of the deceased. Shortly before the completion of the monumental building, the already accumulated "temporal energy" of the pyramid discharges and the kingdom disappears into a dimensional gap.
In order to prevent a war between the rival neighboring states Tsort and Ephebe , which suddenly have a common border after the disappearance of Djelibeby, Pteppicymon has to bring the kingdom back into the real world. His only hope is to complete the great pyramid. The specific characteristics of the parallel dimension, however, have the effect that both all the gods of the Djelibeby pantheon have gained reality and all the pharaohs enclosed in the pyramids have come back to life. Both groups are quite angry and in no way behave as one would expect from venerable ancestors or adorable deities. Fundamental cross-generational collaboration is required to bring this messy situation back on track.
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)
