Questions tagged [discworld]
For questions about Discworld, a series of comic fantasy books by Terry Pratchett.
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How big is the Circumfence barrier?
In The Colour of Magic, it is shown there is a net on the edge of the Disc when
How big is this net? In The Light Fantastic on page 13 it mentions ships falling off the world, so I guess it isn’t ...
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What term is being referred to with "reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits"?
In The Colour of Magic, on page 46 of my copy, Twoflower says this word:
“Reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits?”
What term is being referred to above?
It seems to be like “in-sewer-ants-policy”,...
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Did the characters in Moving Pictures not know about cameras like Twoflower's?
In Moving Pictures, video-cameras are invented... But they're essentially the same thing as Twoflower's camera which only took one picture at a time but Twoflower probably could've asked it to paint ...
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Correlation with trilogy of movies in Discworld timeline?
I was reading the timeline of "Discworld" on L-space, and I noticed this at the bottom of the page.
Anyone note the years and their correlation with a certain trilogy of movies?
Which trilogy are ...
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What's the target audience of Discworld and how was it pitched for a publishing house?
I'm not in the publishing area, but recently I've been reading up on middle grade and YA literature and the importance of target audiences, etc and then I started wondering about the Discworld series.
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What specific works of fantasy were parodied in The Colour of Magic?
This question about magic in Discworld set me thinking a bit. The earliest books in the series are qualitatively different from the later volumes. The Colour of Magic is an episodic tale, parodying ...
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Pronunciation of "Teatime"
Mr. Jonathan Teatime's name is, as specified in the book Hogfather, pronounced "Teh-ah-tim-eh".
“It’s pronounced Teh-ah-tim-eh, sir,” said Teatime, with just a hint
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Terry Pratchett's Discworld: is there an inconsistency in the treatment of magic?
In The Colour of Magic, we learn that:
"Can't tell you. Don't really want to talk about it. But frankly," he
sighed , "no spells are much good. It takes three months to commit
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Why doesn't anyone remember the Eight Great Spells?
In Interesting Times, Arch-Chancellor Ridcully says that Rincewind is not technically a wizard because he failed at the University and has never performed any "great services to magic". Rincewind ...
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What's the pyramid joke?
In The Light Fantastic, after talking about the dimensions of the Pyramid of Tsort, it says
All in all, it was a lot of effort to go through just to sharpen a razor.
What's the joke here?
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Who is the little girl in Raising Steam who blocks the railway meant to be a reference to?
In Raising Steam, about 80% of the way in, a girl named Edith and her brothers intentionally block the railway so as to be able to save the train and be heroes.
“I dare say you do, but I don’t think ...
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Why does Moist von Lipwig pull this trick against Reacher Gilt?
At the end of Going Postal, Moist von Lipwig makes a bet that his post office can deliver a message to a town thousands of miles away before the Grand Trunk company can. Immediately before the race ...
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Is Angus from Small gods really a small god?
In Pratchett's novel Small Gods, there is this character, Angus. Because he saves St. Ungulant from the lion attack it is clear that he is not only fictional (as opposed to what we could think when ...
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Why did this happen to Maurice from Pratchett's novel?
In the Pratchett's book The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, there is a moment when
the intelligent cat Maurice
After that, Maurice wakes up and
How is that possible? I think it is not ...
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Why did Pratchett name Maurice Maurice?
In the Czech translation of Pratchett's book The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (which I read) the name of the cat is Mauric.
Also, there is a word from the translator at the beginning of ...
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