2.3 The Dark Side of the Sun (Terry Pratchett Bibliography)
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2.3 The Dark Side of the Sun (Terry Pratchett Bibliography)
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Dark Side of the Sun
%I Colin Smythe (h/cvr)
%D 1/76 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-901072-20-6
this h/cvr edition's dust-jacket art is by Terry, 1973, as is the St.Martins;
%I St. Martin's (merkin h/cvr) [a modified run-on of the Colin Smythe edn.]
%D 1976 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-........-.
%I New English Library (p/b) cover art by Tim White.
%D 3/78 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-450-03298-1
%I Signet (mmp/b)
%D (not yet known) [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-451-.....-.
%I Corgi (p/b) cover art by Josh Kirby.
%D 4/88
ISBN 0-552-13326-4
%I Doubleday (h/cvr) dust-jacket art from the Corgi p/b edition.
%D 1994
ISBN 0-385-40476-X
h/cvr blurb:
_Probability Math:_ the science of foretelling the future. For
Dom Sabalos, heir to an immensely rich family, its forecasts
were curiously contradictory: he would be assassinated, and
_after_ that, find the fabulous, almost mythical, world of the
Jokers, who were only known by a few incredible artifacts
scattered throughout the Galaxy.
Any good P-Mathematician could find out this information. Some-
body certainly wanted to prove P-Math wrong as far as Dom was
concerned, and make sure that once he was dead, he stayed dead. A
robot assassin, with built-in `luck', had been put on his tail,
but what was it that protected Dom every time the assassin
struck?
To be sure, he had an excellent robot servant, Isaac; (class 5
with Man-Friday subcircuitry). a planet (the First Syrian Bank)
as a god-father, a determined and protective grandmother (who
looked as if she had been born aged eighty), a security chief who
even ran checks on himself, and a home world, where a missing
hand was only a minor mishap and even death was not always fatal
- but what protected Dom on his search for the world which he
knew lay on the dark side of the sun:?
p/b blurb:
Dom Salabos had a lot of advantages.
As heir to a huge fortune, he had an excellent robot
servant (with Man-Friday subcircuity), a planet (the First
Syrian Bank) as a godfather, a security chief who even ran
checks on himself, and on Dom's home world even death was
not always fatal.
Why then, in an age when prediction was a science, was his
future in doubt?
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