Discworld books have been evolving since 1983, when first novel was published. At first they were light and funny stories, a satire on so called "high fantasy". With time though they started to be more serious, characters gained depth, received human characteristics and flaws. Discworld became closer and closer to the world we see every day. Fantastic monsters dwelling on the Disc became respectable members of the community and new kind of horrors emerged: war, greed, prejudice and many others.

37th Discworld novel continues the trend set by The Truth, Going Postal and Making Money. After introducing printing press, postal service and paper money, Ankh-Morpork is going through another change, another phenomenon is finding its way from our world to the Disc. A new sport is born, the sport of "foot-the-ball".

I'm pretty convinced that Terry Pratchett decided on the book title just to hear people around him repeat "Terry Pratchett is Making Money!" I bet he was extremely amused by it. Making Money is 36th novel in the Discworld series. It follows the hero of Going Postal, ex-thief and con artist, currently Postmaster General, Moist Von Lipwig.

After turning Ankh-Morpork Post Office into blooming busness Moist receives an offer he can't possibly refuse. Vetinari appoints him the head of Royal Mint, another business which needs a strong hand and new direction.

Making Money is one of the finest Discworld books. The novel won the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 2008, and was nominated for the Nebula Award the same year. It's a must-read for every Discworld fan.

Casting its spell over audiences this Christmas is Terry Pratchett's fantasy masterpiece, The Colour of Magic, available on DVD and Blu-ray from the 3rd November. Released by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and starring David Jason and Sean Astin this mystical adventure film combines two of Pratchett's most-beloved novels, The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic.

Going Postal is a 33rd Discworld novel and a very successful one at that. It was shortlisted for both the Nebula and Locus Awards for Best Fantasy Novel, as well as the Hugo Award for Best Novel. The book tells a story of a convicted thief and con artist, who, with the help of Patrician manages to turn his life around and become a Postmaster in Ankh-Morpork's Post Office.

The novel introduces, along with new technology, the concept of monopoly and contemplates problems of the free market. With Going Postal Discworld moves one step closer to the so called "real world".

Because of its great potential and ability to appeal not only to Discworld fans, but a much broader audience Sky One decided that Going Postal is going to be the third novel to come to the TV screen. Take a look at our Going Postal movie article.

This animated version of the bestselling novel by parody master Terry Pratchett is a cautionary tale about the dangers of Rock Music - which in the Discworld is literally Music with Rocks In.

In this 17th discworld novel Terry Pratchett takes us to the mysterious Counterweight Continent, a place very similar to Japan. Rincewind, the Wizzard is about to begin his new adventure.

When I first read the 22-nd Discworld novel I had no idea that I'm going to end up wandering through Australia for one month. All I knew about Pratchetts Four Ecks is that it's down under and that you can find cangaroos there. When I finished the book I decided that it's definitly my favourite novel. I also felt that I knew Four Ecks pretty well. And just before my journey throug Australia I was wondering how correctly did Terry Prattchett catch the esence of the country.

Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching needs magic - fast! Her sticky little brother Wentworth has been spirited away by the evil Queen of faerie, and it’s up to her to get him back safely.

After reading the latest of Discworld novels, Monstrous Regiment I came to conclusion that something has changed. The Discworld has changed. It is no longer absolute absurd place with talking trees and houses made of sweets. Discworld has evolved into something more than this.

Terry Pratchett is an Englishman whose best-known work is the Discworld serie. The books are set in a place called Discworld which is a disc-shaped planet (thus the name). It rides on the backs of four elephants which are standing on the shell of Great A’tuin, a giant space turtle. As you might already have figured out, Discworld is a place where normal things don’t happen – at least not very often. It’s populated by humans, dwarves, vampires, dragons, witches, werewolves and whatever you can imagine.

THE UNSEEN UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE: Trolls have smashed down the door, there's a banshee on the roof, the river's caught fire, the librarian has turned into some kind of ape, and this is your starter for ten...

Acclaimed writer and editor Robert Silverberg gathered 11 of the finest writers in fantasy to contribute to this collection of short novels. Each of the writers was asked to write a new story based on one of his or her most famous series, and the results are wonderful. From Stephen King's opening piece set in his popular Gunslinger universe to Robert Jordan's early look at his famed Wheel of Time saga, these stories are exceptionally well written and universally well told.

British author Pratchett's storytelling, a clever blend of Monty Pythonesque humor and Big Questions about morality and the workings of the universe, is in top form in his 28th novel in the phenomenally bestselling Discworld series (The Last Hero, etc.).

A new Discworld story is always an event. Terry Pratchett's The Last Hero is unusually short, a 40,000-word "Discworld Fable" rather than a full novel, but is illustrated throughout in sumptuous color by Paul Kidby.

The latest in Pratchett's Discworld series plays a variation on the Faust theme. Eric is a singularly inept sorcerer who conjures up an even more inept wizard, Rincewind, and a sentient (also treacherous, vindictive, and unruly) footlocker named, of course, the Luggage.

In the high-energy magic facility of Unseen University, the wizards have created a miniature cosmos that includes Roundworld, known to us as Earth. As they bicker over the meaning of this - to them - unfeasible and bizarre planet, we go on a tour of Big Science.

This book is an encyclopedia of Discworld chracters (Death, Cohen the Barbarian, Nanny Ogg and so forth), plus Discworld places and concepts.

If you like Discworld novels you definitly should have this one on your bookshelf.

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The Truth, Pratchett's 25th Discworld novel, skewers the newspaper business. When printing comes to Ankh-Morpork, it "drag(s) the city kicking and screaming into the Century of the Fruitbat." Well, actually, out of the Century of the Fruitbat. As the Bursar remarks, if the era's almost over, it's high time they embraced its challenges.

If you were helpless with laughter over Shanghai Noon, enjoy satirical British humor and terrible puns, or just need your Pratchett fix, grab this book. Unfamiliar with Terry Pratchett and his Discworld series? It's time to discover one of the funniest, most literate, and most thought-provoking authors writing today.

Terry Pratchett has a seemingly endless capacity for generating inventively comic novels about the Discworld and its inhabitants, but there is in the hearts of most of his admirers a particular place for those novels that feature the hard-bitten captain of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, Samuel Vimes. Sent as ambassador to the Northern principality of Uberwald where they mine gold, iron, and fat--but never silver--he is caught up in an uneasy truce between dwarfs, werewolves, and vampires in the theft of the Scone of Stone (a particularly important piece of dwarf bread) and in the old werewolf custom of giving humans a short start in the hunt and then cheating.

Carpe Jugulum is the 23rd Discworld novel, and with it this durable series continues its juggernaut procession onward. Pratchett is an author who inspires such devotions that his fans will fall on the novel with cries of joy. Nonfans, perhaps, will want to know what all the fuss is about; and that's something difficult to put into a few words.

Terry Pratchett's 22nd Discworld novel, The Last Continent, is a lighthearted tour of the fantasy land of Fourecks, a very Australian sort of place, with brief courses in theoretical physics and evolution thrown in for good measure. Pratchett returns to his first Discworld protagonist, the inept and cowardly wizard Rincewind, who habitually runs into trouble as fast as he flees.

Terry Pratchett is a phenomenon unto himself. Never read a Discworld book? The closest comparison might be Monty Python and the Holy Grail, with its uniquely British sense of the absurd, and side-splitting, smart humor.

What could more genuinely embody the spirit of Christmas (or Hogswatch, on the Discworld) than a Terry Pratchett book about the holiday season? Every secular Christmas tradition is included. But as this is the 21st Discworld novel, there are some unusual twists.

In Feet of Clay, Terry Pratchett continues the fantasy adventures on Discworld--where anything goes. Anything but murder, that is. Commander Vimes of the Watch must investigate a puzzling series of deaths, with help from various trolls and dwarfs. Pratchett's humor and excellent writing skills draw the reader effortlessly into his zany world. Feet of Clay is 19th in the series.

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