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The New Discworld Companion (Gollancz S.F.) Book

Terry Pratchett's enormously successful comic fantasies need no introduction, but the Discworld saga is so wide-ranging as to require its own encyclopaedia: The New Discworld Companion, latest revision of the original 1994 Discworld Companion. Once again the alphabetical round-up of Discworld's people, places, creatures, organisations, books, food and miscellanea is (to hi-tech Pratchett's alleged disgust) based on Stephen Briggs's much-thumbed, uncomputerised card index. It draws its material not only from the first 30 Discworld novels and novellas--from The Colour of Magic to The Wee Free Men--but from associated maps, guides, diaries, cookbooks, short stories and two volumes of The Science of Discworld. This torrent of information about a world that doesn't even exist (though often seeming suspiciously more real than our own) is carefully channelled. Minor entries on walk-on characters from the early novels have been ruthlessly crossed out to make room for Discworld facts and fancies that are either more important or--preferably--offer better scope for jokes. The Companion is consistently, unashamedly entertaining. From a geopolitical entry on a small but frighteningly important country: Lancre operates on a feudal system--everyone feuds all the time and hands on the fight to their descendants. The chips on some shoulders have been handed down for generations. Some have antique value. A bloody good grudge, Lancre reckons, is like a fine old wine; you look after it carefully and leave it to your children. It would probably be madness to read the New Companion from cover to cover, but it's endlessly browsable and offers something amusing on every page. From Abbot via Bugarup University, Orang-Utan/Human Dictionary ("Ook"), Place Where the Sun Does Not Shine, and Vestigial Virgins to "Zweiblumen, Jack", all Discworld life is here. In a closing interview Pratchett lets slip the title of the Autumn 2003 novel, Monstrous Regiment. All in all, it's a must for the hardened fan. --David LangfordRead More

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    The All-New Revised Essential Companion to all things Discworld.

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    The Discworld is an unpredictable place what with rivers you can skateboard across (if they weren't so knobbly) rocks that like a stroll about of an evening and points of raw magic that can turn a body inside out soon as look at it. For safety's sake you need a guide! The DISCWORLD COMPANION contains everything you need to know about the Discworld. This edition the first major revision since HOGFATHER was published (1997) covers the eight DISCWORLD novels from JINGO onwards including THE LAST HERO and MAURICE AND HIS AMAZING EDUCATED RODENTS as well as the Diaries the plays and other Discworld Spinoffery.

  • Pickabook

    Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs (Illus)

  • 0575075554
  • 9780575075559
  • Terry Pratchett
  • 8 January 2004
  • Gollancz
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 480
  • New Ed
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