Ankh-Morpork has always been a city where things happen, usually because somebody has discovered that there is money to be made from them. The Industrial Revolution books follow the arrival of technologies such as printing, moving pictures and the railway, as Discworld begins hurtling towards something resembling the modern world. Naturally, nobody has bothered to check whether this is actually a good idea. Along the way we meet journalists, entrepreneurs, inventors, con artists and dwarfs with strong opinions about engineering. These books are packed with jokes about progress, capitalism, technology and the media, while quietly asking whether civilisation is improving or simply finding more interesting ways to make a mess.
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