Tag High Fantasy

Soul Music

Soul Music is one of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels and the third book in the Death sequence, though it can still be read on its own. It brings the series into collision with “music with rocks in,” Pratchett’s comic fantasy…

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Men at Arms

Men at Arms is a Discworld novel set in Ankh-Morpork and focused on the City Watch, making it one of Terry Pratchett’s police-centered fantasies rather than one of the more overtly magical branches of the series. The story follows Captain…

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Moving Pictures

Moving Pictures begins when the Discworld discovers cinema and, being Discworld, turns it into something far stranger and more dangerous than entertainment. The alchemists of Ankh-Morpork stumble into the magic of “moving pictures,” and the new clicks industry soon migrates…

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Pyramids

Pyramids begins with Teppic, the son of a ruler, trying to escape the rigid expectations of his birthplace by training as an assassin in Ankh-Morpork. That alone gives the book an unusual angle for Discworld: instead of dropping straight into…

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Sourcery

Sourcery begins with the arrival of something Discworld’s wizards should never have wanted: a sourcerer, a wizard who is not merely skilled in magic but a source of it. Unseen University, already full of vanity, rivalry, and bad judgment, is…

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