Thud!

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Thud!
The cover of the Collector's Library edition of Thud!
Collector's Library hardcover edition
AuthorTerry Pratchett
Audio read byTony Robinson (abridged);
Stephen Briggs (unabridged)
Unconfirmed (new)
Cover artistPaul Kidby
CountryUK
LanguageEnglish
SeriesDiscworld
Release number
34
Sub-seriesThe Watch
GenreFantasy
PublisherDoubleday
Publication date
2005-09-13
Preceded byGoing Postal 
Followed byWintersmith 

Blurb

‘Some people would be asking: whose side are you on? If you're not for us, you're against us. Huh. If you're not an apple, you're a banana’

Koom Valley, where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls, was a long time ago.

But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office.

With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution. And darkness is following him.

Oh . . . and at six o'clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, he must go home to read 'Where's My Cow?', with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy.

There are some things you have to do.

Podcast episodes

Major appearances

These are episodes primarily devoted to discussing this book.

Date Show Episode External link
2020-06-09 Radio Morpork “Ace Of Clubs” radiomorpork.wordpress.com
2020-12-06 Desert Island Discworld “Patrick Rothfuss and Thud!” desertislanddiscworld.com
2021-06-15 The Death of Podcasts “Thud!” aalgar.com
2021-12-28 Wyrd Sisters “Thud!” wyrdsisters.podbean.com
2022-08-14 Desert Island Discworld “Kelli Butler and Thud!” desertislanddiscworld.com
2022-10-25 The Compleat Discography “Thud!” compleatdiscography.page
2022-12-05 Pratchat “What Terry Wrote” pratchatpodcast.com

Other appearances

These are episodes primarily devoted to discussing this book.

Date Show Episode External link
2023-01-08 Pratchat “Decline by Committee”[1] pratchatpodcast.com

Adaptations

  • Some ideas from Thud! were used as inspiration for the BBC America series The Watch, especially the episode "The Dark in the Dark", which imagines a very different version of the Summoning Dark.

External links

Footnotes

  1. This episode primarily discusses “A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices”, but revisits Thud! to answer more listener questions about the book.