Discworld · Book 13
Small Gods
- Published
- 1 January 1992
- Pages
- 351
- ISBN-13
- 9781804990186
- Type
- novel
About this book
"Small Gods" (1992, 351 pages) is a standalone Discworld novel needing no background at all, and is often named the single best introduction to the series -- Pratchett turning his satire on religion and belief. It's the 13th entry.
Its place in Discworld
Small Gods is book 13 in the Discworld series. It follows Witches Abroad. It is followed by Lords and Ladies. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780857522962
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780062237378
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780552153034