Discworld #12 by Terry Pratchett Witches Abroad begins with what sounds like a fairy tale correction and turns it into something far stranger. After a dying witch leaves Magrat Garlick both a wand and a responsibility, Magrat, Granny Weatherwax, and…
Discworld #11 by Terry Pratchett Reaper Man begins with one of Terry Pratchett’s best premises: Death is fired. The Auditors of Reality decide he has become too individual, too interested in humanity, and remove him from the job that holds…
Discworld #10 by Terry Pratchett Moving Pictures begins when the Discworld discovers cinema and, being Discworld, turns it into something far stranger and more dangerous than entertainment. The alchemists of Ankh-Morpork stumble into the magic of “moving pictures,” and the…
Discworld #9 by Terry Pratchett Eric starts with a boy trying to do something dramatic and ending up with exactly the wrong kind of magic. Eric, a teenage would-be demonologist, wants the usual grand rewards from the universe: immortality, power,…
Discworld #8 by Terry Pratchett Guards! Guards! begins in Ankh-Morpork, where unrest is always close to the surface and the city’s Night Watch has long since fallen into shabby irrelevance. At the center is Captain Sam Vimes, a weary, heavy-drinking…
Discworld #7 by Terry Pratchett Pyramids begins with Teppic, the son of a ruler, trying to escape the rigid expectations of his birthplace by training as an assassin in Ankh-Morpork. That alone gives the book an unusual angle for Discworld:…
Discworld #6 by Terry Pratchett Wyrd Sisters takes the familiar shape of a royal murder and turns it into something stranger, sharper, and much funnier. A king has been killed, his throne seized, and the rightful heir hidden away, which…
Discworld #5 by Terry Pratchett Sourcery begins with the arrival of something Discworld’s wizards should never have wanted: a sourcerer, a wizard who is not merely skilled in magic but a source of it. Unseen University, already full of vanity,…
Discworld #4 by Terry Pratchett Mort begins with a simple but wonderful idea: Death needs an apprentice. That apprentice is Mort, an awkward, well-meaning boy who is not much use to his family and seems ill-suited to ordinary life. When…
Discworld #3 by Terry Pratchett Equal Rites begins with a mistake that throws the Discworld’s ideas about magic into disarray. A dying wizard passes his staff to what he assumes is the eighth son of an eighth son, only for…