'The Colour of Magic' by Terry Pratchett - Fantasy Book Review
‘The Colour of Magic’ – Book Review - Friday Fantasy Show – Episode 174.
The Bottled Imp goes on a little holiday in search of ‘The Colour of Magic’ written by Sir Terry Pratchett. First published in 1983.
I was about 15 or 16 when I first read ‘The Colour of Magic’. I remember seeing the colourful, cartoon cover on the shelves of Forbidden Planet in London and thinking, “That looks like the book for me!” And I was right. By then a number of books in the Discworld series were published so I soon devoured the rest of them. I must have read the first 10 or so back-to-back. But then I’m not sure what happened. I stopped reading them and lost touch with the entire goings on in the Pratchett universe.
Fast forward to The Bottled Imp years, and I decided as part of our new Monday show, The Bottled Imp Show, to read all 41 Discworld novels (some are short stories - The Great Fantasy Challenge), in publication order. But not only that, to read one novel a week!
‘The Colour of Magic’ is the first in the Discworld series and the one that planted a few seeds of how the universe was shaped. The premise of all the Discworld novels is as follows. A planet-sized flat disc carried through space on the backs of four huge elephants – Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon and Jerakeen – who themselves stand on the shell of Great A'Tuin, a gigantic sea turtle. The surface of the disc contains oceans and continents, and with them, civilisations, cities, forests and mountains.
If you'd like to join Ken in The Great Fantasy Challenge, here's the full list of the Discworld novels written by Terry Pratchett:
1) The Colour of Magic (1983) (Rincewind)
2) The Light Fantastic (1986) (Rincewind)
3) Equal Rites (1987) (Witches)
4) Mort (1987) (Death)
5) Sourcery (1988) (Rincewind)
6) Wyrd Sisters (1988) (Witches)
7) Pyramids (1989) (One-off)
8) Guards! Guards! (1989) (City Watch)
9) Faust Eric (1990) (Rincewind)
10) Moving Pictures (1990) (One-off)
11) Reaper Man (1991) (Death)
12) Witches Abroad (1991) (Witches)
13) Small Gods (1992) (One-off)
14) Lords and Ladies (1992) (Witches)
15) Troll Bridge (1992) (Short story)
16) Men at Arms (1993) (City Watch)
17) Theatre of Cruelty (1993) (Short story)
18) Soul Music (1994) (Death)
19) Interesting Times (1994) (Rincewind)
20) Maskerade (1995) (Witches)
21) Feet of Clay (1996) (City Watch)
22) Hogfather (1996) (Death)
23) Jingo (1997) (City Watch)
24) The Last Continent (1998) (Rincewind)
25) Carpe Jugulum (1998) (Witches)
26) The Sea and Little Fishes (1998) (Short story)
27) The Fifth Elephant (1999) (City Watch)
28) The Truth (2000) (One-off)
29) Thief of Time (2001) (Death)
30) The Last Hero (2001) (Rincewind, although this is debatable)
31) The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents (2001)
32) Night Watch (2002) (City Watch)
33) Death and What Comes Next (2002) (Short story)
34) The Wee Free Men (2003) (Tiffany Aching)
35) Monstrous Regiment (2003) (One-off)
36) A Hat Full of Sky (2004) (Tiffany Aching)
37) Going Postal (2004) (Post Office)
38) Once More* With Footnotes (2004) (Compilation: short works)
39) Thud! (2005) (City Watch)
40) Where's my cow (2005)
41) Wintersmith (2006) (Tiffany Aching)
42) Making Money (2007) (Post Office)
43) Unseen Academicals (2009) (The Wizards, Rincewind)
44) I Shall Wear Midnight (2010) (Tiffany Aching)
45) Snuff (2011) (City Watch / Sam Vimes)
46) Raising Steam (2013) (Post office)
47) The Shepherd's Crown (2015) (Tiffany Aching)
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