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The Discworld is an unpredictable place, what with rivers you can skateboard across (if they weren't so knobbly), rocks that like a stroll about of an evening and points of raw magic that can turn a body inside out soon as look at it. For safety's sake, you need a guide! The DISCWORLD COMPANION contains everything you need to know about the Discworld. This edition, the first major revision since HOGFATHER was published (1997), will cover the eight DISCWORLD novels from JINGO onwards, including THE LAST HERO and MAURICE AND HIS AMAZING EDUCATED RODENTS, as well as the Diaries, the plays and other Discworld Spinoffery.… (more)
The New Discworld Companion is a compendium of trivia, characters, locations and events from the Discworld universe. It provides a summary of details given over the entirety of the series, as well as miscellaneous notes from Pratchett's idea folder that never made it off the ground or haven't been written yet. It fleshes out the Discworld with an encyclopedic reference of, well, everything. ( )
When I look back over the years since I last revised the introduction to the Companion, I am staggered at how much has happened. (WHERE AM I? Ponders Stephen Briggs)
Abbot, the. The 493rd Abbot of the Monks of History is an old man with wrinkled hands when we first encounter him during the events of Small Gods.
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The Discworld is an unpredictable place, what with rivers you can skateboard across (if they weren't so knobbly), rocks that like a stroll about of an evening and points of raw magic that can turn a body inside out soon as look at it. For safety's sake, you need a guide! The DISCWORLD COMPANION contains everything you need to know about the Discworld. This edition, the first major revision since HOGFATHER was published (1997), will cover the eight DISCWORLD novels from JINGO onwards, including THE LAST HERO and MAURICE AND HIS AMAZING EDUCATED RODENTS, as well as the Diaries, the plays and other Discworld Spinoffery.
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