![]() ![]() Introduced his interest in using nuclear physics (his previous area of expertise as a scientific journalist) as a metaphor and parody for how magic works. Unlike most of the later ones, it was primarily a vehicle for Terry Pratchett to mock, play with, and deconstruct specific other fantasy series, rather than the much broader field of his later work. Written as a travelogue in which cowardly failed wizard Rincewind and Fish out of Water Twoflower, the world's first tourist, travel much of the Disc while running away from things with big teeth and men with swords. The very first Discworld novel, from 1983. ![]() There's 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 of course THE EDGE of the planet. On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. ![]()
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