Night Watch
core novel 2002 Discworld
Record
| First published | 2002 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.50 (121,350 ratings, collected 2026-09-11) |
| Page count | 480 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780060013127 |
Synopsis
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is chasing the murderous criminal Carcer across the rooftops during a magical storm when a bolt of lightning hurls them both thirty years into the past, landing on the eve of the Glorious Revolution, a period of civil unrest under the erratic Lord Winder. Stranded with no way home while his pregnant wife awaits him in his own time, Vimes is forced to take on the identity of John Keel, a legendary Watch sergeant and his own boyhood hero, who was due to die that very night. Guided by the time-manipulating monk Lu-Tze, Vimes must train his own younger self and the rest of the fledgling Watch while Carcer, also thrown back in time, runs loose in the city.
Where it sits
- Universe: Discworld
- Series: City Watch core; position 6 of 8 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Terry Pratchett
Awards (verified)
- Prometheus Award (Best Novel), 2003: won
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series City Watch: position 6 of 8: previous The Fifth Elephant (1999) · next Thud! (2005)
Sources
- https://wiki.lspace.org/Bibliography
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_(Discworld_novel)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett
- Libertarian Futurist Society, 2003 Prometheus Award winners
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