Author Terry Pratchett

Moving Pictures

Moving Pictures begins when the Discworld discovers cinema and, being Discworld, turns it into something far stranger and more dangerous than entertainment. The alchemists of Ankh-Morpork stumble into the magic of “moving pictures,” and the new clicks industry soon migrates…

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Eric

Eric starts with a boy trying to do something dramatic and ending up with exactly the wrong kind of magic. Eric, a teenage would-be demonologist, wants the usual grand rewards from the universe: immortality, power, and romance. What he gets…

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Pyramids

Pyramids begins with Teppic, the son of a ruler, trying to escape the rigid expectations of his birthplace by training as an assassin in Ankh-Morpork. That alone gives the book an unusual angle for Discworld: instead of dropping straight into…

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Sourcery

Sourcery begins with the arrival of something Discworld’s wizards should never have wanted: a sourcerer, a wizard who is not merely skilled in magic but a source of it. Unseen University, already full of vanity, rivalry, and bad judgment, is…

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Mort

Mort begins with a simple but wonderful idea: Death needs an apprentice. That apprentice is Mort, an awkward, well-meaning boy who is not much use to his family and seems ill-suited to ordinary life. When Death offers him a job…

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