Discworld (Series) Terry Pratchett Author Ben Aaranovitch Author of introduction, etc. The audio quality may not be up to modern day standards. The Colour of Magic Discworld (Series) Terry Pratchett Author (2008). Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. Its one of the great ancient myths, found wherever men and turtles were gathered together the four. Please note: This is a vintage recording. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. The world rides through space on the back of a turtle. 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. His books have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he is the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being. ![]() Raising Steam is his fortieth Discworld novel. 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. Terry Pratchett is the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. It plays by different rules.īut then, some things are the same everywhere. Details Reviews Brought to you by Penguin. 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. ![]() NAMED AS ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 MOST INSPIRING NOVELS
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