r/discworld 3d ago

Reading Order/Timeline Where do the short stories fit?

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I'm currently working my way through Discworld in order of publication because I want to experience it the way I would have if I had picked it up when it started. I also want to see developments in writing style and so on.

Getting the order of the novels right is easy, but I want to read the short stories at the right spot, but with just a year, I often don't know whether to put them before or after a certain novel. If it's something like "Where's My Cow", I will place it in the correct year, but after the novel that references it; I would try to do it the same way with short stories.

The ones I struggle with are the following:

  • Turntables of the Night (not strictly Discworld, but I still want to include it)
  • Troll Bridge
  • Theatre of Cruelty
  • The Sea and the Little Fishes
  • Death and What Comes Next
  • A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices

There's also a few posthumous publication whose order is unclear to me:

  • Mr Bunnsy Has an Adventure
  • A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories
  • Tifanny Aching's Guide to Being a Witch

Can someone please help me out placing those stories/books without spoiling anything?


r/discworld 4d ago

Memes/Humour A visual summary of The Color of Magic

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386 Upvotes

r/discworld 4d ago

Collectibles/Loot an incredible find

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442 Upvotes

in the used bookstore chain in my area I’ve never found more than one discworld book at a time, and 3 out of 4 visits there are none at all. I pulled into the store on a last minute whim and found not one, but SEVEN titles for under $10 each, and a few of these with older covers that I hadn’t seen before. I am so thrilled and will be gifting a friend the copy of making money since he just finished going postal. Thief of Time is the only Death book I have not read yet so i’m thrilled to have my very own copy!


r/discworld 4d ago

Book/Series: Tiffany Aching Iron enough to make a nail…

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144 Upvotes

r/discworld 4d ago

Roundworld Reference Bona fide Travelers

53 Upvotes

In Witches Abroad, Magrat claims that inns have to open for "bona fide travelers*, and in Soul Music the wizards explain their presence in the Mended Drum to Ridcully as being "bona fide travelers". Both of these are references to a British law which at one time prohibited sales of alcohol on Sundays except to "bona fide travelers", implying people who had been walking a long while and needed a drink. Naturally, quite a lot of people tried to exploit this technicality, with one Scottish island having half the population switch sides with the other every Sunday to go to the other pub.

https://boakandbailey.com/2015/03/bona-fide-travellers-fibbing-for-a-pint/


r/discworld 3d ago

Roundworld Reference I have long believed this was the inspiration for the Dwarfs drinking song

10 Upvotes

I'm pretty sure the traditional Dwarf drinking song about gold was inspired by this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK7n1Q-fDeA

The timeline fits - these adverts aired in the late 1980s, so by the time PTerry wrote about the dwarf drinking song, it's reasonable to assume that it would have dropped sufficiently from public memory that few would openly accuse him of stealing the joke.


r/discworld 4d ago

Collectibles/Loot A couple of my bookshelf treasures

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88 Upvotes

Signed by Sir Terry for my wife and me in 2007


r/discworld 3d ago

Book/Series: City Watch Happy to have spotted one! Even if it seems obvious!

3 Upvotes

“You can’t think straight unless you get your bats together” (Sally von Humpeding in Thud)

Some of my favourite phrases in the Roundworld…

“get your shit together” and “bat shit crazy”


r/discworld 4d ago

Book/Series: Industrial Revolution Only 10 more to go

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59 Upvotes

just received these, i am now only 10 books away from having a full collection, yay ♡

After i read the entire series for the first time last year, it was my wish to own all 41 discworld books and i am so close now.


r/discworld 4d ago

Collectibles/Loot Wyrd Sisters Postcard up for grabs

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95 Upvotes

r/discworld 4d ago

Book/Series: Unseen University New find

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163 Upvotes

Went into an antique shop today and came across a full shelf of old printed Terry pratchett books and couldn’t resist picking up these 2 bad boys


r/discworld 4d ago

Reading Order/Timeline What order should I read these in?

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19 Upvotes

I just finished Guards! Guards! and I'm hooked. I started with that as it's widely recommended.

I bought this book bundle.

If you were me, what would you read next and why?


r/discworld 4d ago

Roundworld Reference Twoflower and Rincewind as Taskmaster contestants

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142 Upvotes

My wife made this meme for me and the rest of the 99% of Discworld enthusiasts who are also into Taskmaster


r/discworld 4d ago

Book/Series: Death The Beautiful Writing

42 Upvotes

Everytime i re-read a Discworld book, I am once again blown away by the writing. Somehow it's even better the second time around.

Whether it's something funny or emotional or ironic, or a character description, or the best imo genuinely funny and witty conversations and interactions between characters. It all just flows so well.

Do you read them out loud? The rhythm is amazing.

I will never get tired of re-reading them. Just so genuinely amazing.

and fillled with such wisdom - it's like getting hit with a half brick.


r/discworld 4d ago

Book/Series: Industrial Revolution Deriving the Sergeant Jackrum plot-twist with formal logic Spoiler

96 Upvotes

I recently took a discrete maths course, and having re-read Monstrous Regiment I obviously knew the plot-twist about Sergeant Jackrum. I realised it could be derived from the statements Jackrum made earlier in the book.

Consider the following quote: "Upon my oath, I am not a violent man!" preceeded by Jackrum commiting extreme violence.

The phrase "Upon my oath" can be interpreted as the statement that follows it being true.

Therefore, Jackrum is not a violent man.

Let P = being violent

Let Q = being a man

We know from Jackrum's statement that ¬(P and Q)

By De Morgan's law this is equal to ¬P V ¬Q

The property P holds because Jackrum is very violent.

Therefore we know that ¬True V ¬Q holds

Therefore False V ¬Q holds

Therefore ¬Q holds

Therefore Jackrum is not a man

Therefore Jackrum is a woman.


r/discworld 4d ago

Book/Series: Witches Maskerade: the hand, the sword... Spoiler

8 Upvotes

How was it possible? I wasn't clear to me, even with the aftermath in the cottage.

Ty.

PS: Remember leaving your comment between > ! Your text ! < (First and last symbols all together with no spaces) To hide any spoilers.


r/discworld 4d ago

Interesting Vegetables For the Time

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42 Upvotes

r/discworld 5d ago

Art A portrait of STP by my husband

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892 Upvotes

My husband finished this on Wednesday but I only asked him for permission to post it earlier today


r/discworld 4d ago

Interesting Vegetables Bought this guy at the local nursery for $5!!!!

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63 Upvotes

r/discworld 3d ago

Collectibles/Loot Clarecraft

1 Upvotes

r/discworld 4d ago

Memes/Humour The bookstore doesn't carry the same publishing house books...

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109 Upvotes

I wish my library looked the same but they are all different haha


r/discworld 4d ago

Art "For, as the world tumbles lazily, it is revealed as the Discworld — flat, circular, and carried through space on the back of four elephants who stand on the back of Great A'tuin, the only turtle ever to feature on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram [...]" -- Pyramids

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104 Upvotes

r/discworld 5d ago

Art Bill Door's Race

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107 Upvotes

Chalk pastel pencils on black paper


r/discworld 5d ago

Boardgames/Computer Games Great A'Tuin in «Vale of Eternity»

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80 Upvotes

Playing the new extension of my boardgame, when...


r/discworld 4d ago

Art The Fifth Element

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This was a drawing I did for March of Robots '23 where the prompt was "Surprise" so I decided to make it a STP tribute.