The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett The Color of Magic, published in 1983, is the first book in Sir Terry Pratchett’s enormously popular DISCWORLD series. The Disworld is a flat world which rides on the back of four elephants which ride on the back of a giant turtle named Great A’Tuin. The DISCWORLD novels […]
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The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett The Light Fantastic is a direct sequel to Terry Pratchett’s first DISCWORLD novel, The Color of Magic, in which we met the failed and cowardly wizard Rincewind, his traveling companion Twoflower (a rich and naively brave tourist), and Twoflower’s animated sentient Luggage. I believe that The Light Fantastic is […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Terry Pratchett | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett When a wizard on the Discworld knows he’s about to die, he passes on his staff and magical powers to the eighth son of an eighth son who is being born at that time. So, that’s what the wizard Drum Billet does just before his death — he passes on […]
Read MoreKat Hooper and Tadiana Jones´s rating: 3.5 | Terry Pratchett | Audio | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Mort by Terry Pratchett Mort is the fourth of Terry Pratchett’s DISCWORLD novels. It stands alone, meaning that you don’t need to read the previous novels to enjoy Mort. It’s better than the previous novels, too, so it might be a good place for new readers to start. Mortimer is a naïve but pensive — […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Terry Pratchett | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Sourcery by Terry Pratchett Sourcery begins as Ipslore the Red is about to die — or, more accurately — it begins as Death is coming to collect Ipslore’s soul. Wizards can see Death, so some plan to negotiate terms before departing. Ipslore is an eighth son and a wizard. Banished from Unseen University for marrying […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 3 | Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett Wyrd Sisters (1988) is a fun, lively book. It’s definitely a bit on the light side compared to some of Terry Pratchett’s later works – more parody and less satire, if you like – but there’s nothing wrong with a jocular, easy-going read. Indeed, while it perhaps lacks something of […]
Read MoreTim Scheidler and Kat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Pyramids by Terry Pratchett It seems there is no subject too big or too small, too esoteric or too familiar, that Terry Pratchett won’t tackle in DISCWORLD. His 1989 Pyramids, seventh in the series, sees the author exploring Egypt and just entering the groove that would become more than forty novels in the DISCWORLD setting. […]
Read MoreJesse Hudson and Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Terry Pratchett | BSFA Award | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett Guards! Guards! is Terry Pratchett’s eighth Discworld novel and the first to feature the Anhk-Morpork City Watch. Guards! Guards! is among the best of the Discworld novels and is a possible entry point for readers new to Pratchett’s body of work. Underfunded and disrespected, Captain Vimes’ City Watch has seen […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 5 | Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
Eric by Terry Pratchett Up to this point I’ve always enjoyed Terry Pratchett’s DISCWORLD books, and Faust Eric was no exception in that regard. It was a fun read. Still, I’m not as big of a fan of the Rincewind books as I am of some of the other DISCWORLD books centered around his other […]
Read MoreSteven Harbin (GUEST)´s rating: 3.5 | Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett Citizen Kane is considered by many connoisseurs to be the greatest film of all time. Channeling the idea of empire through the life of a mysterious magnate, it is a drama telling the bittersweet story of the glory days of wealth, the inevitable fall, and how its biggest dreams are left unfulfilled. […]
Read MoreJesse Hudson´s rating: 4 | Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett Reading Reaper Man in light of Terry Pratchett’s recent passing was particularly poignant. It is a book all about death, both figuratively and literally speaking. DISCWORLD fans will be familiar with the character of Death, who this book is largely about. Then, of course, there are the blustering wizards of […]
Read MoreRay McKenzie´s rating: 4 | Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett People have been telling me to read Terry Pratchett’s DISCWORLD books for ages, but I was always a bit intimidated by the sheer number of books he has produced. Finally, I decided to just start reading them in publication order. I have advanced to Witches Abroad, the twelfth book in […]
Read MoreRob Weber´s rating: 4 | Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Small Gods by Sir Terry Pratchett Small Gods (1992) was the first DISCWORLD book I read, and it made me love the series. I reread it recently, and, allowing for certain themes that repeat in all the DISCWORLD books, I found I still enjoyed it. Pratchett delivers a message on the nature of hypocrisy, fanaticism and […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds and Stuart Starosta´s rating: 4 | Terry Pratchett | Audio | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett “If cats looked like frogs, we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That’s what people remember. They remember the glamour.” In Lords and Ladies, Terry Pratchett’s fourteenth DISCWORLD novel, we get to see what happened to the land of Lancre after Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Terry Pratchett | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 7 comments |
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett Odd though it may be, most people agree that Ankh-Morpork is a city that works. Its citizens pay dues to the Thieves Guild so that they will not be robbed, and because the city’s leader, Havelock Vetinari, was a member of the Assassin’s Guild, there is little chance that […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal and Marion Deeds´s rating: 3 | Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett Lord Vetinari receives a message from the Counterweight Continent — which isn’t China — demanding that Ankh-Morpork send the “Great Wizzard” at once. Vetinari, hoping to avoid a conflict, summons Mustrum Ridcully, the Archchancellor of Unseen University, to a top-secret meeting. Who do they want? Ridcully figures the Dean is the […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 3 | Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Maskerade by Terry Pratchett Marion and I both read Maskerade around the same time. I listened to Nigel Planer narrate the audio version (he’s so good) while Marion read the book in print format. She joins me here as we discuss this DISCWORLD story featuring the witches of Lancre. Kat: After Magrat Garlick married the […]
Read MoreKat Hooper and Marion Deeds´s rating: 4 | Terry Pratchett | Audio | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett The City Watch is growing, and its new members bring new skills and talents to help stop crime in Ankh-Morpork. Angua, a werewolf, can trace criminals by their smell, while Detritus, a troll, interrogates suspects by “screaming angrily at people until they give in.” Cheery Longbottom is Vimes’ newest […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 4 | Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett Up, Gouger! Up, Rooter! Up, Tusker! Up, Snouter! Apparently they celebrate something like Christmas – Hogswatch – on the Disc. Why not? Children write letters to the Hogfather, who travels around the world delivering presents in a sleigh pulled by hogs. But no one really believes in the Hogfather, right? Sadly, […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 4 | Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Jingo by Terry Pratchett Sam Vimes has changed a great deal since he was introduced in Guards! Guards!, the first DISCWORLD novel to feature the City Watch of Ankh-Morpork. He has given up booze, he is happily married, and he is now wealthy. The Watch has grown under his leadership as well. Its ranks now […]
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The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett In The Last Continent, Terry Pratchett sends Rincewind and the Unseen University wizards to Xxxx (Fourecks), which, the narrator explains, is not Australia. In Interesting Times, Unseen University wizards inadvertently sent Rincewind to the Counterweight Continent (China), and now they inadvertently travel into the past of Fourecks — the […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 3 | Terry Pratchett | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett Carpe Jugulum (1998) is book 23 in Terry Pratchett’s DISCWORLD series. Like most of his books, this one could stand alone, but it will be most appreciated by those who are familiar with the Discworld and, in this case, Pratchett’s loveable witches — Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, Magrat Garlick, and […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Terry Pratchett | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett Lord Vetinari is dragging Ankh-Morpork and its City Watch into the modern age, but not everyone is happy. Now, instead of just leaving their carriages on the street, people that stop traffic and business will have to watch as a troop of trolls hauls their carriage away (unless they […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 3 | Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
The Truth by Terry Pratchett The truth about Sir Terry Pratchett’s novel The Truth is that for the first time a DISCWORLD book failed to satisfy me. While there is nothing seriously wrong with the story, the feeling that Pratchett was bolting set pieces together to make a whole overwhelmed the general fun of the […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds´s rating: 2.5 | Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett Note: Terry Pratchett’s The Last Hero works without the illustrations, but you don’t want to miss out on Paul Kidby‘s fabulous Discworld art. The Last Hero follows the trail of several popular Discworld characters and this is the closest you’ll get to a world-spanning crossover. There’s no real villain […]
Read MoreCharles Tan (GUEST)´s rating: 3 | Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett Thief of Time is Terry Pratchett’s 26th official entry into the DISCWORLD series. Published roughly six months after The Truth and six months before The Last Hero, Thief of Time finds Pratchett in good form, extemporizing on the scientific quest to put time in a bottle versus more transcendental […]
Read MoreJesse Hudson´s rating: 3.5 | Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork’s City Watch has all but arrested Carcer, a serial killer who specifically targets members of the Watch, when they are thrown back in time. Time travel is always inconvenient, but it is particularly trying for Sam Vimes, who is about to become a father. Worse, Vimes […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 5 | Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett When searching for a strong conflict to anchor a story, most fantasy authors rely on dragons, invading hordes of orcs, and universe-ending supernatural beings and phenomena. In Going Postal, Terry Pratchett tries to save Ankh-Morpork’s post office. Oddly, by aiming lower – just saving the post office? – I felt […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal and Marion Deeds´s rating: 4, 5 | Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Thud! by Terry Pratchett Finally the origins of Koom Valley are explained. Commander Vimes of the City Watch, and Duke of Ankh-Morpork, is desperatly trying to solve the mystery of one dead dwarf. And who is Mr. Shine? What does he have to do with the death of Grag Hamcrusher? And what, oh what, is […]
Read MoreJohn Ottinger (guest)´s rating: 5 | Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett “If you’re looking for grief, look to the ladies” Borogravia is at war with Zlobenia, and the war is going badly for the Borogravians. Polly has stayed home to run her family’s pub, The Duchess, while her brother Paul has been away at the front. It’s been weeks since Polly […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 2 | Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Making Money by Terry Pratchett Terry Pratchett’s Making Money is the thirty sixth Discworld novel, and the second to feature Moist von Lipwig as its hero. Traditionalists will point out that Moist is not very heroic. In fact, he is a conman. Then again, in a city led by an assassin, perhaps a conman is […]
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Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett Many Terry Pratchett fans will tell you that his DISCWORLD novels are really social satire masquerading as fantasy. With the more recent installments, this has become even more apparent, as they have often taken on a very specific subject or theme. The Truth: Terry Pratchett about journalism. Making Money: banking. […]
Read MoreStefan Raets (RETIRED)´s rating: 2.5 | Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Snuff by Terry Pratchett Snuff is Terry Pratchett’s latest DISCWORLD novel to feature the City Watch. Well, actually, the City Watch is largely absent. Lady Sybil, insists that she and Commander Sam Vimes take their son, Young Sam, to the countryside for a vacation. The vacation begins smoothly. Vimes and his family retreat to the country, […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 2 | Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett The latest entry in Terry Pratchett’s sprawling DISCWORLD series, Raising Steam, is an example of what I call the “innovation” series-within-the-series. Just like there are sets of books that focus on specific characters and areas of the Discworld, there’s an increasingly large set of books that take on specific technological innovations entering […]
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The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett Tiffany Aching is a young witch-in-the-making on the DISCWORLD, Terry Pratchett’s flat world which is carried along by four giant elephants who ride on the back of the Great Star Turtle A’Tuin. Tiffany’s young brother has been kidnapped by the Queen of the Fairies. In her quest to […]
Read MoreSteven Harbin (GUEST) and Kat Hooper´s rating: 4.5 | Terry Pratchett | Audio, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 7 comments |
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett Given the light-hearted yet poignant nature of Terry Pratchett’s DISCWORLD, it is surprising that so few of the dozens of books in the series are Young Adult oriented. One of these is The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, and it can readily be enjoyed […]
Read MoreJesse Hudson´s rating: 3.5 | Terry Pratchett | Stand-Alone, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett Tiffany is not convinced when her peer Annagramma explains that magic is a power that signals one’s status. In Annagramma’s view, the witches study arcane and obscure subjects in order to set themselves apart from society, and all of the other young witches seem convinced by her […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 3 | Terry Pratchett | Audio, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett The older witches warn Tiffany Aching not to join in the dark Morris dance, but the soon-to-be-thirteen-year-old, who is usually so sensible, suddenly finds that she cannot resist her feet’s urging. Swept away in the heat of the moment, the young witch joins the magical dance before anyone can stop her. […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal and Kat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Terry Pratchett | Audio, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett When Tiffany thinks about her age, she thinks that she’s “nearly sixteen.” On the Chalk, “nearly sixteen” means, for many girls, thinking about marriage. Tiffany might lack her peers’ enthusiasm for boys, but she has delivered babies and tended to the terminally ill. Tiffany has dealt with domestic […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 3 | Terry Pratchett | Audio, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman The bad news for the world is this: the apocalypse is nigh and all of humanity will soon face their final judgement. The good news? A Bentley-driving demon and an angel who is ‘gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide’ have decided that they rather […]
Read MoreRay McKenzie´s rating: 4.5 | Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Nation by Terry Pratchett Mau returns home from a rite of passage concerning his transition from boyhood to manhood to discover that every member of his island village, the “Nation,” has been killed in a tidal wave. Who will teach him to be a man now that he has only himself to rely on? Daphne, […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal and Ruth Arnell (RETIRED) | Terry Pratchett | Stand-Alone, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 5 comments |
The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter is a really interesting book without being a particularly good one. The concept for The Long Earth itself arises from a short story Pratchett wrote before he became Pratchett with a capital P. Essentially, there are other versions of […]
Read MoreKate Lechler and Ray McKenzie´s rating: 2.5 | Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
The Long War by Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter The Long War, the second installment in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter’s five-book LONG EARTH series, is more tedious than the first one, probably because I have already seen the inside of their bag of tricks and I am no longer impressed. This sequel happens about 12 […]
Read MoreKate Lechler and Ray McKenzie´s rating: 1 | Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
The Long Mars by Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter The Long Mars by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter still features egregious prose, but it finally begins to tie in some of the unresolved plotlines from earlier books in the LONG EARTH series. We now understand why Roberta (from The Long War) seemed so different; we find out where […]
Read MoreKate Lechler´s rating: 2.5 | Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
The Long Utopia: by Terry Pratchett & Steven Baxter I read this book thinking it was, finally, the end of Terry Pratchett and Steven Baxter’s LONG EARTH series. Unfortunately, I have since read that one more is going to come out. In some ways, this is fine. The Long Utopia (2015) in no way provides a conclusion […]
Read MoreKate Lechler´s rating: 2 | Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett | SFF Reviews | | 5 comments |
A Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett A Slip of the Keyboard collects much of Terry Pratchett’s non-fiction. In speeches, articles, and letters, Pratchett holds forth on a variety of subjects, ranging from book tours to hats to policies relating to Alzheimer’s and assisted dying. He also discusses Australia, conventions, and his development as […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 3 | Terry Pratchett | Non-fiction | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Dragons at Crumbling Castle: And Other Tales by Terry Pratchett Dragons at Crumbling Castle is a collection of fourteen stories written by Terry Pratchett and illustrated by Mark Beech. Each page of the books is covered in wacky fonts or scribbles to emphasize certain words and phrases, and the lines of print are double-spaced to promote easy […]
Read MoreJana Nyman´s rating: 2 | Terry Pratchett | Children, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 5 comments |
Just an hour ago Sir Terry Pratchett‘s publisher, Larry Finlay, announced Terry’s death. He was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s Disease in 2007, but found ways to continue writing even after he lost the ability to type. Terry Pratchett will be remembered for his DISCWORLD novels especially. Though they may seem like goofy satires and […]
Read MorePratchett’s Women by Tansy Rayner Roberts I discovered something about myself by reading Pratchett’s Women, which is always a worthwhile thing. What I discovered was that, although I rejoice greatly at the presence of strong female characters in a book, I don’t necessarily notice their absence as much. Now that I’m aware, hopefully that won’t […]
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