Only Terry Pratchett could make ethnic conflict funny, and that's exactly what he does in this satiric fantasy novel, an addition to the long-running Discworld series. He also sends up art criticism and the hoopla surrounding the book THE DA VINCI CODE. As the anniversary of a legendary dwarf/troll conflict looms, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the ...
The hopelessly incompetent wizard Rincewind is in trouble again in this novella-length addition to Terry Pratchett's long-running Discworld series. Since the events of SOURCERY, Rincewind has been lost in the Dungeon Dimensions...until, that is, a teenage boy named Eric attempts to summon a demon and gets Rincewind instead. Refusing to listen to ...
In the 15th Discworld fantasy novel, Terry Pratchett has fun with hard-boiled police procedurals and racial diversity programs. Captain Vimes is preparing to leave the Watch to marry Lady Sybil Ramkin when his attention is captured by the mysterious murders of a dwarf and a clown, an exploded swamp dragon, and the theft of a dangerously compelling ...
This Discworld fantasy is a humorous look at the rise of new technologies and the power of the press. William de Worde, an industrious scribe using a newfangled invention from the dwarf community called a "printing press," starts Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper, kicking off a media war with the Guild of Engravers and becoming vital to uncovering ...
Prince Teppic, having recently completed his training as an assassin, must return to his home country of Djelibeybi to take the throne after his father's death. Teppic is uncomfortable with the stagnant rituals associated with being king, and things only go from bad to worse when he runs away and Djelibeybi seemingly vanishes from the world.
The personification of Death, one of Terry Pratchett's most popular characters, undergoes forcible retirement in this 11th humorous installment of the Discworld fantasy series. Death has started to become a bit too human, and as a result, the auditors of reality have deemed him inefficient and plan to replace him. During the period of transition ...
This is one of the darker entries in the satiric Discworld fantasy series. Sam Vimes, Commander of the Ankh-MorporkWatch, is pursuing a psychopathic killer when both of them are transported back 30 years in the past, during a time of great unrest in the city. Posing as his old mentor in the Watch, Sergeant John Keel (who was murdered in this ...
World war breaks out in Discworld play script Discworld goes to war, with armies of sardines, warriors, fishermen, squid and at least one very camp follower. As two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch faces unpleasant foes who are out to get him...and that's just the people on his side. The enemy might be even worse. Jingo ...
Terry Pratchett takes to the stage--and takes off on the classic PHANTOM OF THE OPERA--in this installment of the long-running fantasy series set on the curiously-shaped Discworld. Now that Magrat Garlick has married the King of Lancre, witches Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg are in need of a third for their coven. But their chosen candidate, ...
Terry Pratchett takes aim at classic fairy tales, voodoo, and the culture of New Orleans in this installment of the long-running humorous fantasy series set on the Discworld. Witch and part-time fairy godmother Desiderata Hollow dies and leaves her magic wand to sentimental, ineffective witch Magrat Garlick. To fulfill her new duties, Magrat, ...
Susan and her grandfather, Death, are back in this sendup of Christmas and childhood myths (Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, etc.), part of the long-running fantasy series set on the Discworld. An insane assassin commissioned by the auditors of reality kills the Hogfather, the kindly, overweight man who brings pork products to good ...
The first two Discworld books satirized the classic quest novel. In the third humorous installment of the series, Terry Pratchett takes on traditional gender roles in fantasy. A dying wizard leaves his magical staff to a newborn baby--a baby who, as the eighth son of an eighth son, is fated to be a wizard. But the baby, Eskarina Smith, turns out ...
The acclaimed Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the Wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed the creation and evolution of our universe, a plot which was interleaved with a Cohen & Stewart non-fiction narrative about Big Science. In The Science of Discworld II our authors join forces again to see ...
Rincewind, the protagonist of the first two Discworld books, returns in book five of a long-running humorous fantasy series. In the Discworld, the eighth son of an eighth son is a wizard. When the wizard Ipslore the Red breaks his vow of celibacy and has children himself, his eighth son is a sourceror, capable of frighteningly powerful, reality ...
Up on the chalk downs they call The Wold, witches are banned - ever since the Baron's son vanished in the woods. Anyway, as all witches know, chalk's no good for magic. Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching - a wise shepherd - might have been a witch, but now Granny Aching is dead and it's up to Tiffany to work it all out when ...
Terry Pratchett mocks secret societies, royal pretenders, and the life of the humble beat cop in this eighth entry in the Discworld fantasy series. An ancient (well, ancient since last February) brotherhood attempts to restore the monarchy of the city of Ankh-Morpork through a complicated scheme involving the summoning of dragons. Pitted against ...
This sequel to WEE FREE MEN finds 11-year-old witch-in-training Tiffany Aching once again battling the forces of evil. This time out however, she has become the unwilling host to a Hiver, a seemingly unstoppable, deeply evil parasite out to take control of her magical powers. Knowing that Tiffany is in danger, the Wee Free Men (including Rob ...
It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar ...
In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet...That's the old story everyone knows and loves (even if they don't really believe it). But now the Carpet is home to many different tribes and peoples and there's a new story in the making. The story of Fray, sweeping a trail of destruction across the Carpet. The story ...
Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome. For Mort however, it is about to become one of the tools of his trade. From henceforth, Death is no longer going to be the end, merely the means to an end. He has received ...
The book prior to this one, THE COLOUR OF MAGIC, ended with the main characters, the incompetent and cowardly wizard Rincewind and his companion, the tourist Twoflower, falling off the edge of the Discworld. But that doesn't stop their adventures from continuing. At this point, the Discworld itself is in danger, and apparently Rincewind and the ...
Terry Pratchett takes on Shakespeare in this sixth installment in the long-running parodic fantasy series set on the Discworld. Rigidly honorable, nasty-tempered witch Granny Weatherwax, who first appeared in EQUAL RITES, is back, joined by two other witches: matronly, raunchy Nanny Ogg and soppy, ineffective Magrat. This coven of three, aided by ...
The Discworld learns to rock 'n' roll in the 15th installment of the humorous fantasy series. Harpist Imp y Celyn (or, as he's called later, Buddy Holly) gets a guitar from a mysterious shop, and invents an entirely new type of music: Music With Rocks In It. Soon, the phenomenon sweeps the city of Ankh-Morpork, and everyone wants to play such ...
This book provides the introduction to author Prachett's Discworld, a flat planet that sits atop the backs of four immense elephants who, in turn, ride the shell of an enormous space turtle. In this installment, a tourist is shown around by a largely incompetent wizard.
The early days of film-making is Terry Pratchett's satiric target in the 10th Discworld fantasy. Unambitious wizard Victor abandons his study of actual magic for the figurative magic of Holy Wood, new site of the burgeoning moving picture industry. Unfortunately, as its name would indicate, Holy Wood is also the site of a long-forgotten sacred ...
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