The Circle Sea is an almost landlocked body of water approximately halfway between the Hub and the Rim, opening at the Turnwise side into the Rim Ocean. To list all of the playscripts, diaries, calendars, short stories, screenplays and rarities that have been available throughout the years would have us reaching for the Dried Frog Pills. Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic (2008), based on both The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic, starring David Jason as Rincewind. It appears that those students who do not marry upon leaving school generally go into the teaching profession themselves, or become governesses.

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The Disc's "standing magical field" is essentially the local breakdown of reality, which allows a flat planet on the back of a turtle to even exist.

The third-fastest-selling hardback adult-readership novel since records began in the UK, selling 55,000copies in the first three days. Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook (2014) [32] A guide book to the new railway system on the Disc; a parody of Bradshaw's Guides, and mentioned in Raising Steam.

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The main exception is the stand-alone book Small Gods, which appears to take place at some point earlier than most of the other stories, though even this contains cameo appearances by Death and the Librarian. In the BBC's Big Read, four Discworld novels were in the top 100, and a total of fourteen in the top 200. The app features a full street directory, a stunning level of detail, walking tours, and the opportunity to do busywork for shiftless Postmaster Moist von Lipwig, as well as a full soundscape.The sun's orbit is so complex that one of the elephants has to cock its leg to allow the sun to continue on its orbit. Pratchett described the tiny country as "solid folklore"; it is the place all the legends of Earth's countryside really happened. This law has since been repealed or at least ignored by the new baron since Tiffany Aching began openly practising magic there. Fantasy clichés are parodied in many of the novels, as are various subgenres of fantasy, such as fairy tales (notably Witches Abroad), witch and vampire stories ( Carpe Jugulum) and so on.

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Seven of the short stories or short writings were also collected in a compilation of the majority of Pratchett's known short work named Once More* With Footnotes (2004). The Watch, a TV series inspired by [52] the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, The Watch has been in development by Terry and then Rhianna Pratchett since 2011.

Welcome to the Discworld (1996) – an 8-minute animated television adaptation of a fragment of Reaper Man. As reality was given a retcon in the book, the Duke who united the Sto Plains was Mort, and he did it by diplomacy rather than conquest.

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Zlobenia, a pun on Slovenia, with its capital Rigour, a pun on Riga, is a principality ruled by Prince Heinrich, who is described as tall, handsome, and smug. Hundreds of years ago, the trolls and the dwarfs met in a battle at Koom Valley in which each side apparently ambushed the other. It encompasses a large boulder emerging out of the Sto Plains like 'a geological pimple', left there by the retreating Ice Giants.The World of Poo (2012) Another in-universe children's book (similar to Where's My Cow), referenced in Snuff. Writing the Paranormal Novel: Techniques and Exercises for Weaving Supernatural Elements into Your Story. To counteract the effects of Klatchian coffee, in Klatch it is drunk with Orakh (a very violent alcoholic beverage made by mixing scorpion venom and cactus sap and fermenting it in the sun for several weeks), possibly referring to Italian "espresso" coffee which is often drunk with "grappa", a very strong, often homemade, alcohol (although the name "Orakh" is presumably a reference to arak). Troll Bridge (2019): A live-action / hand-animated short film by the Australian group Snowgum Films.