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Men at Arms

Discworld #15 by Terry Pratchett Men at Arms is a Discworld novel set in Ankh-Morpork and focused on the City Watch, making it one of Terry Pratchett’s police-centered fantasies rather than one of the more overtly magical branches of the…

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Reaper Man

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…

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Moving Pictures

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…

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Eric

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,…

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Pyramids

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:…

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