Rolling Stones (Original Title: Soul Music ) is a novel by Terry Pratchett from 1994. He is the sixteenth Discworld novel . The action takes place in Ankh-Morpork. As in many of Pratchett's stories, Rolling Stones introduces a significant element of modern society, in this case rock 'n' roll , into the magical, late medieval Discworld - including the star cult and with almost disastrous consequences. For the first time, Susan Sto Helit, the daughter of Mort and Ysabell and thus the granddaughter of Tod, plays an important role.
action
Obsessed with the idea of becoming the greatest musician on the Discworld, the young harpist Imp y Celyn moves to Ankh-Morpork. But Imp cannot afford the membership fee of the musicians' guild and so he founds the "Band Mit Steinen Drin" with the troll Lias and the dwarf Glod Glodson . Always threatened by thugs and assassins whom the guild incites on them, they play and promote free music.
An unfortunate incident has turned Imp's harp into a pile of shavings, so that he has to fall back on a guitar-like replacement instrument. However, this guitar is possessed by an ancient musical entity and Imp plays it rather than plays it. At any rate, together they make music that Discworld has never heard before, and that, in the patrician's opinion , should never be heard again. A real rock 'n' roll fever is gripping the city.
At the same time, death is human again and wants to learn to forget. He refuses to do his duty and the mechanisms inherent in his nature ensure that his underage granddaughter Susanne Sto Helit has to keep the business going.
Susanne becomes Imp's first fan and falls madly in love with the somewhat Elvish-looking bard. When she discovers that she has an hourglass job in his name, she decides to shirk duty and to refuse Imp to die. At the planned time of death, Susanne was surprised to find that the singer's empty clock fills with blue smoke and Imp brings his performance to an end unmolested. Susanne suspects that the music and not the band or death determines what happens next. After the last big open-air concert , Imp died in a cart accident, according to the universal the-good-die-young principle. One of the things that death doesn't take well is seeing his granddaughter unhappy. So at the end he intervenes again in the events so that everything is in order.
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)