Discworld · Book 2
The Light Fantastic
- Published
- 1 January 1986
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN-13
- 9780063373679
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published 1986 at 256 pages, "The Light Fantastic" is Discworld's second entry, continuing Pratchett's use of the Disc -- and its dragons, golems and the personification of Death -- to satirise policing, religion, journalism, banking and belief.
Its place in Discworld
The Light Fantastic is book 2 in the Discworld series. It follows The Colour of Magic. It is followed by Equal Rites. 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 9780061801150
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780063373679