Colour Of Magic, The: Discworld Novel #1
Twoflower was a tourist, the
first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincwind decided, meant idiot.
Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a
parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but
which looks completely different. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint
notion that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers. But
just because the Disc is different doesn't mean that some things don't stay the
same. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the
arrival of the first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and
prosperity of the land. But if the person charged with maintaining that
survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries and, well, Death, is a
spectacularly inept wizard, a little logic might turn out to be a very good
idea...
And so began the story of
Discworld that went on for 40 books and ended in 2013. In December 2007, Terry Pratchett announced
he was suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. He later made a substantial public donation
to the Alzheimer’s Research Trust and filmed a television program chronicling
his experiences with the disease for the BBC.
Sir Terry Pratchett died on 12 March 2015, aged 66.
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