Discworld · Book 37
Unseen Academicals
- Published
- 1 October 2009
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9780061967320
- Type
- novel
About this book
"Unseen Academicals" (2009) is the 37th Discworld novel, part of Terry Pratchett's forty-one-book comic series set on a flat world carried through space on the back of four elephants and a giant turtle -- 400 pages, with no single protagonist but interweaving strands across Ankh-Morpork and beyond.
Its place in Discworld
Unseen Academicals is book 37 in the Discworld series. It follows Making Money. It is followed by I Shall Wear Midnight. 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 9780857525932
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780061967320