Raising Steam: (Discworld novel 40) (Discworld Novels)

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Lazy Bum: It's noted that despite being the Postmaster and Vice Chairman of the Bank, Moist doesn't actually do any work. He makes up for it by being incredibly charming, and making an effort to remember each of his employee's names and the names of their families, and this in itself causes everyone to work twice as hard. Released on November 7th, 2013. The fortieth Discworld novel (following Snuff), and the third in the Moist von Lipwig sequence (following Making Money). The penultimate entry in the Discworld series, and last published in the author's lifetime, due to Terry Pratchett's death a year and a half later. Followed by The Shepherd's Crown, published posthumously. Air forced into the furnaces via fans and a trunked system is forced draft (predominantly used by Cunard in their vessels). Coal Bunkers

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This book had two deleted scenes cut from it called 'The Skeleton in the Cavern' and 'Counterblast.' These were reprinted in the convention exclusive Terry Pratchett's Folio. If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things. A tree cannot find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time. items in a ship intended primarily for engineers working on board and those who working ashore . For any remarks please Charlie makes an appearance to fill in for Vetinari while he goes undercover on Iron Girder as "Stoker Blake".Simnel is the Superego; an engineer who tries to file everything into its proper slot and is entirely out in left field when things don't go that way. Several locations from previous books also appear in the book, including the Forest of Skund (with an observation that a Wizard may fall on your head), Scrote and several places from The Fifth Elephant such as the Wilinus Pass and Bonk. Even more that aren't mentioned appear on the map at the front of the book. First we have to get the exhaust steam system arranged in a similar way to that of the dynamos but, in the case of the propulsion system, the auxiliary condenser is nowhere near big enough to handle the exhaust from the main engines and turbine. Off we go aft into the turbine room again, where we can take a moment to pass round the equipment to the port outboard side.

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The Dwarf King retakes Schmaltzberg with little resistance, and Ardent, the leader of the fundamentalists, is held for trial. Feeling that the dwarfs are ready for a more progressive future, the King reveals that she is actually a Queen, and changes her name from Rhys to Blodwen, in honor of a dwarf who had been killed by the fundamentalists at her wedding. Following this announcement, a number of other senior dwarfs also "come out" as female. The bells ring again – STOP! Shutting off the throttle, the engine comes slowly to a halt. You don’t know what the next command will be, so leave the reversing gear in the ahead position. I'd Tell You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You: Played with: Vetinari makes a few revelations to Moist von Lipwig, and then mentions that if the details of the conversation ever get out, well... Karin L Kross for Tor.com, [10] praised Raising Steam as "the latest transformation of a remarkable fictional world that has evolved and grown with its creator." I rather like the way Vetinari seems not to care any more that the audience can see the strings by which he controls everything. He has a girlfriend in Uberwald and doesn't care who knows it.

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Everything's Deader with Zombies: One potential railway route is rejected for being infested with zombies. The water level gauge provides a visible indication of the water level in the boiler in the region of the correct working level. Gadgeteer Genius: Goblins turn out to be a race of tinkerers that put dwarfs to shame. At the end of a book, one has invented the bicycle, and Vetinari refers him to Mr Thunderbolt to secure a patent. Vimes scares some dwarfs into telling everything they know by simply showing the mark of the Summoning Dark on his arm. Some people still haven't adjusted to goblins being recognized in society. Moist himself included, but he makes an effort to get past this, in part because his wife allows a family of them to live on their roof. He's also helped along by his frequent interactions with Of The Twilight the Darkness, who's essentially a goblin version of himself.

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Whilst the single ended boilers in Boiler room No1 were normally used in port, at the time of the sinking these boilers were not lit, so must have been shut down on sailing from the last port (Queenstown). Steam line redundancy Various coolers King Incognito: In the build up to the book's climax, there is mention of a "legendary" stoker named Blake, who can win a fight against any of the others (which they do in their spare time). He turns out to be Vetinari himself, who left a body double in Ankh-Morpork so that he could help ensure the success of Iron Girder's emergency run to Bonk. He expresses a desire to assume the identity again, as he enjoys the job.Once lit, the dampers adjust the boiler draft and the fires start to heat the water in the fire-tube boilers. To me, this one's about Moist and the Discworld growing up, maturing. And I suspect it's a wish that Roundworld would too. The retro grags sure felt like the U.S. Tea Party, but not so specifically that readers in other countries couldn't recognize their fringe conservatives too. No, it is your kind of thinking that makes dwarfs small, wrapped up in themselves: declaring that any tiny change in what is thought to be dwarf is somehow sacrilege. I can remember the days when even talking to a human was forbidden by idiots such as you. And now you have to understand it’s not about the dwarfs, or the humans, or the trolls, it’s about the people, and that’s where the troublesome Lord Vetinari wins the game. In Ankh-Morpork you can be whoever you want to be and sometimes people laugh and sometimes they clap, and mostly and beautifully, they don’t really care. Do you understand this? Dwarfs now have seen liberty. And that’s heady stuff.” Continuity Nod: This book is the uncontested champion for "most continuity nods in one Discworld book". The lights would have stayed on providing an emergency dynamo was running, which is likely to have been the case as there were no batteries fitted for emergency lighting on Titanic, though Olympic may have been retrofitted after the accident. Looking at the angle of the waterline at the point where the lights went out – just prior to breaking in two – it is very close to the suction for the auxiliary condenser seawater pump above.