The Colour of Magic
- Published
- 24 November 1983
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN-13
- 9780063373662
- Type
- novel
About this book
"The Colour of Magic" (1983) opens Discworld -- an inept wizard, Rincewind, escorts the Disc's first tourist through straight fantasy parody. It's the traditional starting point for the Rincewind strand, though many readers now bounce off its 1980s-parody tone and prefer a later entry point; 240 pages.
Key facts about The Colour of Magic
The Colour of Magic is a novel by Terry Pratchett. Readers have had it since 24 November 1983. It runs to 240 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of The Colour of Magic. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780063373662 to find the main one.
The Colour of Magic is book 1 of 41 in the Discworld series. The series has 41 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. The Shepherd's Crown is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 27 August 2015.
Additionally, Terry Pratchett writes The Bromeliad Trilogy, The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy and The Long Earth as separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy and science fiction shelves. Meanwhile, The Long Cosmos is the latest published Terry Pratchett book on file, from 30 June 2016.
About Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett was an English author whose Discworld series became one of the most beloved and best-selling comic fantasy works in the language, running to forty-one novels published between 1983 and his death in 2015. See every Terry Pratchett book in order.
Its place in Discworld
The Colour of Magic is book 1 in the Discworld series. It is followed by The Light Fantastic. 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 9780385608640
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780063373662