Tag: discworld

The Discworld Humble Bundle.

This is not a bad deal: thirty-eight Discworld novels for eighteen bucks. I mean, yeah, I have them all already, and you can tell the precise moment in my life where I could afford to buy Terry Pratchett in hardcover. Still, it’s a damned good Humble Bundle offer.

One caveat, though: you’ll need a Kobo account. I have no idea how difficult it’d be to get those books out of there, and into your Kindle reader. …And I suppose that the fact that I have to make that caveat tells you quite a bit about Kobo that the platform would prefer you not to dwell upon.

Last chance to preorder GURPS Discworld and Mars Attacks…

…and get ’em before Christmas! I, myself, am going to have to wait for the new year – I’d feel bad about that, except that I know at least a half-dozen people who are a bit more worried about, say, seeing 2018 right now* – but there’s no reason why all y’all can’t get these two locked down in time for the holiday.  GURPS Discworld and GURPS Mars Attacks are both hotly anticipated titles this year: the first is an update of the excellent 3rd Edition version from – dear God! – 1998; and the second just promises to be good, clean, Atomic Horror B-Movie fun.

So go for it.

Moe Lane

*IHTFY.

GURPS Discworld [4E] and Mars Attacks! now on pre-order.

The GURPS Discworld Roleplaying Game and GURPS Mars Attacks, to be precise. They’re doing pre-orders this month and counting all the sales as counting towards the GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Kickstarter stretch goals, which means if you buy the books now I may eventually get free shipping.  That’s reasonable all around, I think: I’m not likely to do another pledge drive this year, but if you’re going to buy the books anyway you might as well pre-order them, right? Continue reading GURPS Discworld [4E] and Mars Attacks! now on pre-order.

Book of the Week: “Reaper Man.”

Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett is the eleventh one in his Discworld series, and they’re being SOLD FOR FOUR BUCKS APIECE ON KINDLE, so why are you still here?  Seriously. This is, like a steal. :waving fingers: Go! Shoo! Buy Discworld books for four bucks!

And so, farewell to Superego.

Moe Lane

Book of the week: Unseen Academials (Discworld)

And so, we go from Neil Gaiman’s Coraline to Terry Pratchett’s Unseen Academicals. No, it’s not out yet. But it will be, in about a month – which should be enough lead time for me to be able to splurge on the hardcover.

Hey, it’s Pratchett.

Book of the Week: The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld.

We remove The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression and replace it with The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld, which I imagine is a good deal more cheerful.

Well, I have all the Discworld novels, after all. So I’ve already read every word in the book. Just… in different order, that’s all.

Unpacking Discworld.

Being known for being a stone-cold Terry Pratchett fan – particularly of the Discworld series – I’ve been asked for recommendations about where someone should start if somebody was interested in the series.  The answer is… it depends.

Essentially, the Discworld has gone through at least 3 upgrades since it was created.  Version 1.0 was pretty much a straightforward comic treatment of the sword-and-sorcery genre, complete with various good-natured parodies of other fantasy series.  Somewhere around Small Gods (in my personal opinion) we got version 2.0, which is where Pratchett started contemplating the Discworld as a place where serious (yet comical) stories could be told (as opposed to straightforwardly comic ones).  At some point – probably around the time that the Science of Discworld series came out – we got version 3.0, which is where we start seeing a fully-conscious examining of the implications of Discworld.

None of these iterations are necessarily superior to any other; but it does mean that new readers may be confused by the sometimes wide divergence in styles between any two books.  I therefore suggest that you go by the sub-series, which I’ll discuss below.  I’m not going to list every book in said sub-series: there are a lot of Discworld books, and they sometimes cross over into each other’s narrative thread. Continue reading Unpacking Discworld.