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Going Postal
Going Postal (ISBN 0385603428, published by
Doubleday) is Terry Pratchett's 33rd Discworld novel, released
in the United Kingdom on September 25, 2004.
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Synopsis
Moist von Lipwig, con artist and all-around fraud, unexpectedly
finds that instead of faking his own death to escape the law,
someone has faked his death for him. Unfortunately, that someone
was Lord Vetinari, the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, and now Lipwig
has a choice: either he gets hanged for real, or he tries to
get the Ankh-Morpork Postal Service up and running as its new
Postmaster General. With great reluctance, Lipwig takes the
job, only to find things are even worse than he imagines, as
he encounters ghosts, golems, a few angry men from the Grand
Trunk clacks line who want him dead, centuries' worth of dead
letters, and the love of his life: Adora Belle Dearheart, a
golem-rights activist who's tougher than her name implies.
Going Postal, as a Discworld novel, is filled with references
and parodies — here the references include GNU, crackers, AT&T,
and The Smoking Gun. A critique of libertarianism is also a theme
in the book, dovetailing with an extended parody of Atlas Shrugged
and more generally the works of Ayn Rand.
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