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Description

Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. The Color of Magic is Terry Pratchett's maiden voyage... read more

First Sentence

IN A DISTANT AND SECONDHAND SET OF DIMENSIONS, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling starmists waver and part ... See ... Great A'Tuin the turtle comes, swimming slowly through the interstellar gulf, hydrogen frost on his ponderous limbs, his huge and ancient shell pocked with meteor craters.

Table of Contents

1. The Colour of Magic: Prologue
2. The Colour of Magic
3. The Sending of Eight: Prologue
4. The Sending of Eight
5. The Lure of the Worm
6. Close to the Edge

Series

This is book 1 in the Discworld series.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Terry Pratchett (Author)
 

Books with Additional Background Information

   
  • The Discworld Companion
  • The New Discworld Companion
  • The Discworld Mapp

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