![]() ![]() ![]() Two things raise it up and they are its sense of the absurd and the way it uses its fantastic genre trappings to hold a mirror up to our world. Rincewind by Paul Kidbyīut, with this, Pratchett does something that takes a mundane and obvious genre piece and elevates it far higher than probably he even imagined back in the early 1980s when he began work on it. Telling the story of a lowly wizard, Rincewind, and his adventures trying to protect and guide his naïve charge, the Discworld’s first tourist Twoflower, the book could easily have been a very minor footnote in the fantasy fiction world. ![]() When the news broke last week that fantasy author Terry Pratchett had died at the age of 66 there was a great out pouring through social media from his fans around the world, myself included, with words, images and quotes from (arguably) his greatest creation, Death, being shared, liked and tweeted in abundance.Īs the initial noise died down I picked up my well-loved copy of the first Discworld book, The Colour of Magic, for the first time in a few years, and as I did it got me thinking.Īlong with the late great Douglas Adams, Pratchett’s writing has had a major affect on me, helping shape not only my reading habits and writing (if it weren’t for him, its likely this blog and my other writing work simply wouldn’t exist) but also my sense of humour and my general outlook on the world.Įven in this formative, first, work from his epic series its clear to see why. ![]()
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