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The
Colour of Magic (1985)
The first book in Terry Pratchett's 'Discworld' series. It's set on
a flat world sitting on the backs of four elephants, who hurtle through
space. We are introduced to the strange adventures of Rincewind, the
wizard, and Twoflower, Discworld's first tourist. |
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The
Light Fantastic (1986)
As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent
red star, the Discworld has only one possible saviour. Unfortunately,
this happens to be an inept and cowardly wizard called Rincewind,
who was last seen falling off the edge of the world. |
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Equal
Rites (1987)
The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did before he died was to pass
on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately
for his colleagues in the chauvinistic world of magic, he failed to
check on the newborn baby's sex. |
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Mort
(1988)
Mort has been chosen as Death's apprentice. He gets board and lodging,
free use of company horse, and doesn't even need time off for his
grandmother's funeral. Looking like a skeleton is not compulsory,
either. |
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Sourcery
(1989)
Colin may only be a child, but he is also an extremely powerful sourcerer
who has decided that he wants to take over the Disc World. The only
people who stand in his way are Rincewind the inept wizard, Conina
the Great Barbarian Thief who really wants to be a hairdresser, and
Nijel. |
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Wyrd
Sisters (1989)
The witches of Discworld, not the most joyful bunch, decide that they
must get involved in the politics of the planet. Granny Weatherwax,
their obvious choice as spokesperson, finds that life in royal politics
is not as simple as it seems. |
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Pyramids
(1990)
Set in the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi, 'Pyramids' follows the adventures
and, more often, misadventures of Teppic, a teenage pharoah faced
with a terror-filled world of mad high priests, sacred crocodiles,
marching mummies and exploding pyramids. |
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Guards!
Guards! (1990)
Terror stalks the streets of Ankh-Morpork, greatest city on the Discworld.
Something is turning unwary citizens into things resembling small
charcoal biscuits. To the rescue come Carrott, Sergeant Vimes and
the other members of the inebriated night watch. |
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Eric
(1990)
Discworld's only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very
difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork's denizens. This would-be Faust
is very bad...at his work, that is. All he wants is to fulfill three
little wishes:to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to
have a stylin' hot babe. |
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Moving
Pictures (1991)
The alchemists of the Discworld have discovered the magic of the silver
screen, and the inhabitants of Ankh-Morpork achieve stardom as the
cameras roll. But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood hill? It's
up to Victor Tugelbend and Theda Withel to find out.
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Reaper
Man (1992)
Death is missing. Dead Rights activist Reg Shoe suddenly has more
work than he'd ever dreamed of, and newly-deceased wizard Windle Poons
wakes up in his coffin to find that he has come back as a corpse.
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Witches
Abroad (1996)
The witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick travel
to the distant city of Genua to make sure that a servant girl doesn't
marry a prince. But all they've got is Mrs Gogol's voodoo, a one-eyed
cat and a secondhand magic wand that can only do pumpkins.
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Small
Gods (1993)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was "Hey, you!".
For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One, and all he wants is peace,
justice and brotherly love. He also wants the Inquisition to stop
torturing him now, please. |
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Lords
and Ladies (1993)
It's a hot Midsummer Night. Everything ought to be going like a dream
as Magrat Garlick, witch, is going to be married in the morning. But
crop circles are turning up everywhere and the Lancre All-Comers Morris
Team have got drunk on a fairy mound.
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Men
at Arms (1994)
There's evil in the air and murder afoot. The City Watch needs all
the help it can get, as Captain Vimes is about to hang up his badge.
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Soul
Music (1995)
It's hard to grow up normally when grandfather rides a white horse
and wields a scythe - especially when you have to take over the family
business, everyone thinks you're the Tooth Fairy, and you have to
face the new and addictive music that has reached the Discworld. |
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Interesting
Times (1995)
The oldest empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by
the revolutionary treatise "What I Did on My Holidays".
Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes.
Warlords are struggling for power. War (and Clancy) are spreading
throughout the ancient cities. |
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Maskerade
(1996)
The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork, is a huge, rambling building, where
innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by an evil mastermind
in a hideously-deformed evening dress. But Granny Weatherwax, Discworld's
most famous witch, is in the audience and she doesn't hold with that
sort of thing. |
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Feet
of Clay (1997)
There's a werewolf with pre-lunar tension in Ankh-morpork, a dwarf
with attitude and a Golem who begins to think for itself. But for
Commander Vines, that's only the start. There's treason in the air.
He's not only got to find out whodunit, but howdunit too, and he's
not even sure what they dun. |
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Hogfather
(1997)
Where is the big jolly fat man? Why is Death creeping down chimneys
and trying to say Ho Ho Ho? The darkest night of the year is getting
alot darker. Susan the gothic governess has got to sort it out by
morning, otherwise there won't be a morning. Ever again. |
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Jingo
(1998)
The ravening hordes of Klatch and the patriotic peoples of Ankh-Morpork
clash over the sovereignty of a newly risen and uninhabitable island.
As they march, Commander Vimes of the City Watch faces foes out to
get him - and that's just the people on his side. |
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The
Last Continent (1999)
The Discworld's last continent is hot and very dry, and everything
is poisonous. All this place has between itself and wind-blown doom
is the inept wizard Rincewind, the only hero left. |
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Carpe
Jugulum (1999)
Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. He thought
he'd come to the mountain kingdom of Lancre for a simple little religious
ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches,
and he's not sure if there is a right side.
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The
Fifth Elephant (2000)
Sam Vimes is a man on the run. Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of
police and the ambassador to the mysterious fat-rich country of Uberwald.
Now he has nothing but his gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya. If he doesn't
make it through the forest to civilization, there's going to be a
terrible war. |
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The
Truth (2000)
William de Worde is the editor of the Discworld's first newspaper.
Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life
- suicidal vampires, obssesional readers and people who want him dead.
William just wants to get at "the truth". Unfortunately,
everyone else wants to get at him. |
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Thief
of Time (2001)
Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. And on the
Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and
pump it from the places where it's wasted (like the underwater - how
much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's
never enough time. But the construction of the world's first truly
accurate clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu Tze and his
apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will
only be the start of everyone's problems. THIEF OF TIME comes complete
with a full supporting cast of heroes, villains, yetis, martial artists
and Ronnie, the fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (who left before
they became famous). |
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