Mort Author:Terry Pratchett Sometimes even Death needs a holiday. On the Discworld--a flat world carried through the cosmos by four elephants riding on the back of a giant turtle--the skeletal timekeeper of life has suddenly realized that the only way he'll ever get some time off from his daily--and nightly--reaping of souls is to take on an apprentice. And so he finds M... more »ort, a seemingly unemployable boy with too many knees and elbows and a longing for the kind of knowledge no mere mortal should be allowed to acquire...« less