Discworld · Book 6

Wyrd Sisters

Published
10 November 1988
Pages
322
ISBN-13
9782266091343
Type
novel
Cover of Wyrd Sisters

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).

Key facts about Wyrd Sisters

Terry Pratchett wrote Wyrd Sisters, a novel on our list. It has been out since 10 November 1988. The book has 322 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9782266091343 to find the main one.

Wyrd Sisters is book 6 of 41 in the Discworld series. The series has 41 published books. However, the series starts with The Colour of Magic (1983). 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

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…

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