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In dark side, the very intelligent robot is named isaac. Click to read more about the dark side of the sun by terry pratchett. I also remember how the earliest discworld novels felt, so i figured the potential and the serendipitous coming together of his plot characters. This page is part of the online version of the apf and contains all the annotations for the book the dark side of the sun.
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Characters, places, things and concepts from the dark side of the sun. Usually sam stays off the street and works behind a desk, but when a particularly vicious psychopath kills one of the men under his command, vimes is determined to. The inheritor of a family company survives assassination attempts in his efforts to find the fabled jokers a mythological race left evidence of their existence as giant towers. Quotes from the dark side of the sun by terry pratchett chris jones. The dark side of the sun by terry pratchett alibris.
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