There was about eight miles between the big semaphore towers, and when you were at the top you were maybe a hundred and fifty feet above the plains. Sometimes the clacksmen thought they could fly. It was like the illness known as “calenture,” which sailors experienced when, after having been becalmed for weeks under a pitiless sun, they suddenly believed that the ship was surrounded by green fields-and stepped overboard. The One-Month Prologue T HERE WAS THIS…disease that the clacksmen got. He remembered it, because it was the only really interesting thing to happen in the last nine thousand years. One nearly hit Anghammarad, where he sat watching the ships drift by, far overhead. Sometimes an anchor drops, all the way to the dark, cold HE FLOTILLAS OF THE DEAD 2 / Terry Pratchett calmness of the abyssal plain, and disturbs the stillness of centuries by throwing up a cloud of silt. But the voyages still continue, aimlessly, with no harbor in sight, because there are currents under the ocean, and so the dead ships with their skeleton crews sail on around the world, over sunken cities and between drowned mountains, until rot and shipworms eat them away and they disintegrate. Many still have crew, tangled in the rigging or lashed to the wheel.

Some stricken ships have rigging some even have sails. In short, it stops sinking and ends up floating on an underwater surface, beyond the reach of the storms but far above the ocean floor. As a storm-tossed ship founders and sinks, therefore, it must reach a depth where the water below it is just viscous enough to stop its fall. And it is known that air is heavier the lower you go and lighter the higher you fly. It runs: the sea is, after all, in many respects, only a wetter form of air.

GOING POSTAL A NOVEL OF DISCWORLD® TERRY PRATCHETT Contents The Nine-Thousand-Year Prologue 1 The One-Month Prologue 3 Chapter 1 The Angel 5 Chapter 2 The Post Office 26 Chapter 3 Our Own Hand, Or None 52 Chapter 4 A Sign 82 Chapter 5 Lost in the Post 106 Chapter 6 Little Pictures 144 Chapter 7 Tomb of Words 172 Chapter 7A Post Haste 204 Chapter 9 Bonfire 226 Chapter 10 The Burning of Words 254 Chapter 11 Mission Statement 282 Chapter 12 The Woodpecker 312 Chapter 13 The Edge of the Envelope 340 Chapter 14 Deliverance 371 Epilogue 392 About the Author Praise Other Books by Terry Pratchett Cover Copyright About the Publisher The Nine-Thousand-Year Prologue T sailed around the world on underwater rivers.

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