Raising Steam

Raising Steam is one of Terry Pratchett’s later Discworld novels, set in a period when new technology begins to change the shape of the world. The story centers on the arrival of the steam engine and the upheaval that follows as railways spread outward from Ankh-Morpork into places that have long remained separate, stubborn, or difficult to reach. Moist von Lipwig becomes one of the key figures in that change, drawn into the enormous practical and political effort required to make the new system work.

Readers can expect a Discworld novel that is less about a single mystery or quest than about momentum, modernization, and the way invention unsettles old powers. The tone is witty and energetic, but there is also a strong current of tension beneath it, because progress in this world does not arrive neatly or peacefully. The setting ranges more widely than some earlier books, giving the story a broader, almost industrial sweep, while still keeping Pratchett’s sharp eye for bureaucracy, ambition, resistance, and the human consequences of change.

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