Discworld · Book 10

Moving Pictures

by Terry Pratchett

Published
1 January 1990
Pages
360
ISBN-13
9781804990537
Type
novel

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About this book

The tenth Discworld novel, "Moving Pictures" (1990) runs 360 pages and belongs to a series famous for the fact that readers can begin it in a dozen different places -- each Pratchett satire aimed at some real-world institution refracted through the Disc.

Its place in Discworld

Moving Pictures is book 10 in the Discworld series. It follows Eric. It is followed by Reaper Man. See the full Discworld reading order.

Discworld is Terry Pratchett's forty-one-novel comic masterpiece, set on a flat world carried through space on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle. What begins in The Colour of Magic (1983) as straight fantasy parody — an inept wizard escorting the Disc's first tourist — evolves into something far richer: a mirror held up to our own world, where Pratchett uses dragons, golems and the anthropomorphic personification of Death (WHO SPEAKS LIKE THIS and is fond of cats) to write about policing…

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