#discworld

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"The Wee Free Men" by Terry Pratchett is a guide to resisting tyranny disguised as a YA book.

The Queen of the Elves is an unquestioned authoritiy figure in her world, but she doesn't accept responsibility. She makes everyone entertain her, and discards them (terminally) if they displease her. Nothing in her world is real, because she has no imagination. She steals from other worlds and doesn't care for anything once she's gotten what she wants. You don't grow old there, not quickly, anyway, because nothing grows, learns, builds, or even imagines anything new. They're there to convince the Queen that she's somehow all-powerful as well as carefree, fun, and infallible.

The Queen of the Elves is a malignant narcissist, like all tyrants. As usual, Terry Pratchett was preparing us for the worst of the real world, and he somehow made it fun.

I am late to the party, by around 40 years.
But I have recently delved into Terry Pratchett's Discworld and although I'm only 2 books into this 41 book epic, I feel this is becoming a new obsession.
The world building in these books is wonderful. And I've never sat and giggled to myself as much when reading. These books are weird and wonderful and very silly in the best way.
Can we please appreciate Josh Kirby's original artwork for the series and how sick his designs are. The attention to detail is 🔥

The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett- Original artwork by Josh Kirby

Years ago I bought an interactive map & guide to Anhk-Morpork, very impressive, with both a map and an aerial view up to the last detail. The app never updated and soon become incompatible, big loss. I dismantled it and recovered the 23766 tiles of 256x256 pixels each that composed the two images. I've been slowly rebuilding the aerial one into a giant 24064 x 16896 px image. Already 3/4 done. I intend to print a great poster for my studio. Detail is insane.

Aerial ilustration in sepia colour of the city of Anhk-Morpork as described in the Discworls series from Terry Pratchett
Detail of some of the buildings on the aerial illustration of the City of Anhk-Morpork, showing the detailed buildings and places described on the Discworld novels.
Detail from the illustration of the city of Anhk-Morpork showing one of the tiles that compose the final image.

"You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage."

Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

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GNU Terry Pratchett. 10 years gone but never forgotten. Looking around this corner of the internet I see people starting their Discworld journeys for the first time. I see long time readers finding each other. I see friends who started as fellow fans. He changed so many lives. Thank you Terry. I'll raise a toast today on your birthday. A man is not dead while is name is still spoken, or until the ripples he left in the world fade.

Where to start with: Terry Pratchett

With more than 75m copies of his books sold around the world, Terry Pratchett is one of the most loved British writers, best known for his comic fantasy novels set on a fictional planet, . Ten years on from the author’s death, and just before what would have been his 77th birthday, Pratchett’s biographer Marc Burrows has put together a guide to his hero’s work

https://www.dumptheguardian.com/books/2025/apr/25/where-to-start-with-terry-pratchett

I've been reading Terry Pratchett's novel "Snuff!" over the past few weeks.

For years, I found Pratchett's villains to be over-the-top and cartoonish. This was fine for humorous novels but it nevertheless felt underwhelming.

Little did I understand that Pratchett was merely depicting the meanness, stupidity, petty cruelty and selfishness of evil people in real life.

You live and learn.

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