Colour Of Magic (eBook)

The first book in Terry Pratchett s bestselling Discworld series

TERRY PRATCHETT (Autor)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
288 Seiten
Transworld (Verlag)
978-1-4070-3437-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot.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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Discover the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry Pratchett, the first book in the Wizards series, part of the Discworld novels.NAMED AS ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 MOST INSPIRING NOVELS'If you've never read a Discworld novel, what's the matter with you?' Guardian The best fantasy writer ever 5-star reader review'It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination . . .'Somewhere between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a magical world not totally unlike our own.Except for the fact that it travels through space on the shoulders of four giant elephants who in turn stand on the shell of an astronomically huge star turtle, of course.Rincewind is the world's worst wizard who has just been handed a very important job: to look after the world's first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. Unfortunately, their journey across the Disc includes facing robbers, monsters, mercenaries, and Death himself.And the whole thing's just a game of the gods that might send them over the edge . . .The Colour of Magic is the first book in the Wizards series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.Praise for the Discworld series:'[Pratchett s] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday Pratchett is a master storyteller Guardian'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George R.R. Martin'One of those rare writers who appeals to everyone Daily Express One of the most consistently funny writers around Ben Aaronovitch Masterful and brilliant Fantasy & Science Fiction Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable' The Times The best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse' The Sunday Telegraph Nothing short of magical Chicago Tribune'Consistently funny, consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns' SFX [Discworld is] compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world There's never been anything quite like it Evening Standard

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.12.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 1-4070-3437-5 / 1407034375
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4070-3437-9 / 9781407034379