![]() ![]() ![]() Sir Terry Pratchett became a god among satirists, a league of authors filled with friends Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. What happened during those 32 years was a complete reinvention of the sci-fi/fantasy genre. The first edition ran 506 copies, and in a 1985 speech, Terry described it as “an attempt to do for the magical fantasy universe what Blazing Saddles did for westerns.” 41 books later and a year after Terry’s death, 2015 marked the definitive end of the Discworld anthology. Sir Terry Pratchett published The Color of Magic in 1983. ![]() I recently finished reading The Color of Magic (and watching the 2008 three part mini-series which covered more than that), and while I was not previously unfamiliar to the magic of Discworld, a refreshing baptism was a wonderful invitation back in. My fatal flaw is that I’m stubborn, so I will be ignoring the advice and reading the entirety of Discworld in publication order. Terry himself said this book was “written in protest” about a genre that he loved, but contained “too many dark lords, too much lack of thought”. ![]() Most everyone who has read the Discworld series by Sir Terry Pratchett advises not to start with The Color of Magic. ![]()
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