Discworld · Book 1
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.
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