Thanks to the familiar scenery and secondary characters this was not a completely new start, but it brought a fresh wind into the Discworld. Similar to the 25th Discworld novel The Truth, a story about newspapers in Ankh-Morpork, Going Postal again introduced a completely new main character - something that had actually not happened very often in Terry Pratchett's novels before. But the postoffice of the city had already been mentioned as having completely collapsed in earlier stories, prompting Terry Pratchett in 2005 to tell its past and future story in a new book. Belonging to this are a series of stories around Ankh-Morpork, the biggest city on the Discworld, telling about an industrial revolution, which apart from a thriving newspaper industry also results in a telegraph service based on signal towers. Terry Pratchett's Discworld has always been in a constant state of evolution, because especially in his newer stories the author had developed his fantasy world further and transformed it from a medieval scenery into a victorian age. He recognizes Lipwigs talents and gives him one chance to keep his execution from going forward: employing his special talents to revive the run-down post office of the city. This saves his neck when he is caught in Ankh-Morpork and hanged - to his astonishment Lipwigs next appointment is not with a man wielding a scythe, but with Lord Vetinari, the Patrician of the city. Moist von Lipwig is one of the many crooks, fraudsters and forgers on the Discworld - but one of the best. DVDLog » Review - Going Postal Going Postal
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