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Originally Posted by mr_scrub
Would Thief of Time be an "Ankh-Morpork" story? It is set in Ankh, but it isn't really real without muggings and robbery every half-second.
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Originally Posted by Lurkin Ghoole
The topic before us now includes "Thief of Time" -- is it an Ankh Morpork novel? Actually, in my exceedingly modest view, it's a Death ... or at least a Susan Death ... novel more than anything else.
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Originally Posted by Stercus, Stercus
Most of the books feature death. He likes to observe. ToT is set in Ankh and intruduces us to other citizens of the city. As future books will.
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Thief of Time is clearly part of the Death series. Death had his own storyline in gathering the horsemen, as well as Susan's contribution. If you discount it as Ankh Morpork, you may as well discount Soul Music and Hogfather, which have as much A-M and Susan-ness as ToT.
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Originally Posted by Stercus, Stercus
They do say "All roads lead to Ankh-Morpork." And with a city of 1 million people there are alot of stories waiting to be told.
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There are more people in the rest of the disc. I think stories were originally set there as it was the most dynamic of cities, now I think it's the case that the 'scenery' (mainly the politics) is established and Terry (as well as the readers) want to see how it evolves and indeed evolved, hence Night Watch.
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Originally Posted by Hsing
One book that tried a totally new setting and, partly, tone, was Monstrous Regiment, and that left many fans bewildered. (I thought it was good, but often found myself in the minority there.)
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Same here, maybe it helped that I was oblivious to the precedents of everyone being a girl so didn't expect absolutely everyone to be. That seemed to ruin it for some.
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Originally Posted by Lurkin Ghoole
And about "Monstrous Regiment" ... I think the presence of stalwarts Edward deWorde, Vimes and Angua, (not to mention the lurking presence of the Patrician offstage) makes it at least a second degree Ankh-Morpork story. That godless, I mean godawful city ...
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Second degree at most, it was basically a stand-alone, with a few familiar characters. Pyramids had a few Morporkians (in particular assasins), Small Gods had a librarian cameo and previously mentioned Ephebians, etc etc.