After the colossal success of Small Gods, you might think that Terry Pratchett might have wanted to try out some other new ideas. However, given the way that publishing works, any ramifications from a successful novel weren’t likely to be felt for a couple of books down the track, what we got next was a … Continue reading The Great Discworld Retrospective No. 14: Lords And Ladies →

There’s a phenomenon known as “capturing lightning in a bottle” that describes the sensation of being in a particular place at precisely the right time to take advantage of a situation that nobody really knew existed before. In 1992, there was a bit of a renaissance for speculative fiction that we hadn’t seen since the … Continue reading The Great Discworld Retrospective No. 13: Small Gods →

As I said in the last entry in this series, it was more than a year before I was able to read a new Discworld novel after buying the hardback of Moving Pictures. Reaper Man, the eleventh book in the series, was what I was waiting for. But in paperback this time. At first glance, … Continue reading The Great Discworld Retrospective No. 11: Reaper Man →

So after eight books, it was pretty apparent that Terry Pratchett and Discworld were becoming a major success. And Josh Kirby’s fabulous covers did play a sizeable part in that success. So let’s go back in time to an age when cover illustrations were a pretty big deal. For a lot of people, the front … Continue reading The Great Discworld Retrospective No. 9: Eric →