Discworld · Book 11

Reaper Man

by Terry Pratchett

Published
1 January 1991
Pages
301
ISBN-13
9786055060633
Type
novel

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About this book

"Reaper Man" (1991) continues Terry Pratchett's Discworld at 301 pages, the 11th novel in a series that mixes straight fantasy trappings with sharp satire of policing, religion, war and belief.

Its place in Discworld

Reaper Man is book 11 in the Discworld series. It follows Moving Pictures. It is followed by Witches Abroad. 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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