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The Color of Magic: A Discworld Novel
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The Color of Magic: A Discworld Novel Paperback - 2005

by Terry Pratchett

This title, which launched the legendary Discworld series, introduces the tourist Twoflower and his wizard guide, Rincewind. Part of a reissue of the first three Discworld books, this novel includes an overview of the fantasy land, with a map, visitor's guide, and Pratchett crossword puzzle.


From the publisher

"In the history of comic fantasy, Mr. Pratchett has no equals for invention or for range. . . . Those who don't [know him] can do no better than to buy installment No. 1, The Color of Magic and read right the way through."--Wall Street Journal

In this first novel in the internationally bestselling series from legendary New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett, the fate of the Discworld depends on the survival of a nave--and first-ever--sightseer.

A writer of brilliant imagination favorably compared to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, and Douglas Adams, Sir Terry Pratchett created a complex, satirical universe with its own set of cultures and rules, populated with wizards, witches, academics, fairies, policemen, and other creatures both fantastical and remarkably ordinary (including Death himself). Welcome to the Discworld . . . a parallel time and place that sounds and smells very much like our own, but looks completely different--because it's a flat world sitting on the backs of four elephants who hurtle through space balanced on a giant turtle.

In this, the maiden voyage through Terry Pratchett's ingeniously twisted alternate dimension, the well-meaning but spectacularly inept wizard Rincewind encounters something previously unknown in the Discworld: a tourist!

Twoflower has arrived to take in the sights. Unfortunately, he's cast his lot with a most inappropriate tour guide--a decision that could result in his becoming not only Discworld's first visitor . . . but quite possibly, its last. And, of course, he's brought Luggage along, a companion with feet--and a mind--of its own. And teeth. . . .

The Discworld novels can be read in any order but The Color of Magic is the 1st book in the Wizards series and the 1st Discworld book.

From the rear cover

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. It plays by different rules. 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.

From the jacket flap

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. It plays by different rules. 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.

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  • Title The Color of Magic: A Discworld Novel
  • Author Terry Pratchett
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Thus
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
  • Date 2005-09-13
  • ISBN 9780060855925 / 0060855924
  • Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.06 x 5.32 x 0.57 in (20.47 x 13.51 x 1.45 cm)
  • Reading level 890
  • Library of Congress subjects Fantasy fiction, Humorous fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005046289
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Ingram Advance, 09/01/2005, Page 59
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