Worse, this curtailed last period of Keel’s life - according to History, he died a mere week after taking the job - was one marked by political turmoil in Ankh-Morpork: the city’s wheels were breaking down under the weight of the current Patrician, Mad Lord Winder, and his replacement, Snapcase, had curried favor with its citizenry.Īs tensions reach a breaking point, it’s all Sam Vimes can do to keep himself together, bereft of his friends and colleagues - Carrot, Angua, Detritus, Cheery Littlebottom - and last, but not least, his wife Sibyl.
The plaything of the Fate (or perhaps the Lady), Vimes is forced to assume the identity of Sergeant-at-Arms John Keel, who, as it happens, in his brief time with the Ankh-Morpork City Watch trained one wet-behind-the-ears lance constable from a working-class part of town named. Chasing a criminal across Unseen University’s roofs, Sam Vines, in an unforeseen combination of a major temporal shattering (see Thief of Time ) and magical accident, gets sent back to the past. “Nobby” Nobbs, Angua, Detritus, and the out-and-proud-of-it (about being female, that is) dwarf Cheery Littlebottom in its sequel, Night Watch.ĭiscworld goes sci-fi. Last time we explored The Fifth Elephant this time, we will continue the marvelous misadventures of Commander Vimes, Carrot, Colon, Cpl. We’ve begun our exploration of the Disc by tackling the Watch novels, the subgroup of eight novels that are one of the Discworld’s two flagship sub-series.
Beyond that, there are three phases to the Discworld novels as a whole: their formative phase, where the setting and parodic humor are substantially more important the mature phase, where the setting drops into the background and the novels become more character-driven and the late phase, where themes that slowly developed during the mature phase start to come together into a greater arc spanning the whole of the Disc. The Disc is both world and mirror of worlds, and in this vast and rangy series, Pratchett deep and complex themes in what is above all his fun way of writing.ĭiscworld is not best tackled as a unified series, but rather as groups of series set within the overarching continuity of the Disc setting.
The late Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series is one of my personal favorites - hilariously witty, sardonic, and occasionally accused, justifiably, of literature.
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