'His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction'Mail on SundayNAMED AS ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 MOST INSPIRING NOVELS 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 the beginning there was...a turtle.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. Particularly as it's carried though space on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown). It plays by different rules.But then,some things are the same everywhere. 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.Unfortunately,the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers,mercenaries and,well,Death,is a spectacularly inept wizard...The Discworld novels can be read in any order but The Colour of Magic is the first book in the Wizards series.
Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdISBN: 9780552166591Number of pages: 288Weight: 199 gDimensions: 198 x 127 x 17 mm
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One of the best and funniest English authors aliveLike Jonathan Swift,Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own,and like Swift he is a satirist of enormous talent... incredibly funny... compulsively readableHe would be amusing in any form and his spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction
Terry Pratchett
Britain's most beloved creator of comic fantasy fiction,Terry Pratchett was the genius behind the Discworld series,as well as various other seminal story sequences.
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