Discworld · Book 6
Wyrd Sisters
- Published
- 10 November 1988
- Pages
- 322
- ISBN-13
- 9782266091343
- Type
- novel
About this book
"Wyrd Sisters" (1988, 322 pages), the sixth Discworld novel, is the recommended entry point for the Witches strand, introducing Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg's brand of "headology" rather than conventional magic (with Equal Rites as an earlier prototype).
Its place in Discworld
Wyrd Sisters is book 6 in the Discworld series. It follows Sourcery. It is followed by Pyramids. 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 9782266091343