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Book:Guards! Guards!
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| Published | August 1989 |
| Publisher | Victor Gollancz |
| ISBN | [1] |
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| Series | Watch Series |
| Main characters | Carrot Ironfoundersson Samuel Vimes Fred Colon Nobby Havelock Vetinari The Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night |
| Annotations | Annotations for Guards! Guards! |
| Notes | Book #08 |
| All data relates to the UK hardback edition. | |
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Blurb
This is where the dragons went.
They lie ... not dead, not asleep, but ... dormant. And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly. And presumably, somewhere, there's a key ...
Guards! Guards! is the eighth Discworld novel – and after this, dragons will never be the same again!
Cover
The cover, once again painted by Josh Kirby, features Carrot (with sword), Vimes (with bottle), Nobby (with small dragon) and Colon (with bow and arrow). They are all attempting to fight the Dragon.
Characters
- Carrot Ironfoundersson
- Samuel Vimes
- Fred Colon
- Nobby
- Havelock Vetinari
- Lupine Wonse
- The Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night
- Sybil Ramkin
Annotations
- "the Public Order Act of 1457" - one of the frequent 57 references in TP's work
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