![]() ![]() The Discworld novels can be read in any order but The Colour of Magic is the first book in the Wizards series. Unfortunately, the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries and, well, Death, is a spectacularly inept wizard. ![]() The Disc's very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the world's first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. Pratchett continued to work in newspaper journalism and then in public relations throughout the 1970s and most of the ’80s. Theres an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and. It plays by different rules.īut then, some things are the same everywhere. Particularly as it's carried though space on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown). ![]() Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is. In 2020, Marc Burrows, author, music and film critic, comic and musician published to much acclaim the first full-length biography The Magic of Terry. NAMED AS ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 MOST INSPIRING NOVELS ![]() 'His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday ![]()
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