The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett

The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett

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Title

The Colour of Magic

Authors and contributors

By (author) Terry Pratchett

Physical properties

Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 207
Width: 152 mm
Height: 220 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight: 381 g

Audience

College/higher education
General/trade

Language

English

ISBN

ISBN 13: 9780861403240
ISBN 10: 086140324X

Classifications

BISAC category code:FIC009000
Dewey:823.914
Nielsen BookScan Product Class:F2.2
Dewey:FIC
BISAC category code:FIC009020

Edition

New edition

Edition statement

New edition

Publisher

Colin Smythe Ltd

Imprint name

Colin Smythe Ltd

Publication date

01 November 1989

Publication City/Country

Bucks/GB

Review text

Pratchett borrows from Babylonian cosmology for his second, wacky flat-Earth yarn - set on an Earth.disk that rests on the backs of four elephants, who themselves stand on the sh.ll of an enormous turtle. (And only Pratchett's characters would think of lowering themselves over the edge of the disk-in order to determine the sex of the turtle!) This time failed wizard Rincewind runs into problems when he encounters rich, bumbling circum - disk tourist Twoflower - whose luggage consists of a sapient pearwood box that trots around after him on hundreds of tiny legs. . . and snaps its lid at anyone it doesn't like. The innocent Twoflower sells some fire insurance to a shifty innkeeper, who proceeds to burn down his inn and the entire city of Ankh-Morpork. And what follows is madcap travelogue, involving: the disk's zany, often magical inhabitants; the Gods (atheists are liable to get their windows broken); a watery being who splashed down in the ocean, having fallen off a different Earth-disk; and Death with his scythe (whose timing is so poor that Rincewind keeps evading him). Not quite the gleefully insane parody Strata (1981) was, but frothy, inventive, and fun. (Kirkus Reviews)