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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Sourcery, Part IV
It’s time to reshuffle the world back to the way it was. We’re here to complete Sourcery! Summary Rincewind goes into the Tower of Art and finds the Librarian, the Patrician, and Wuffles, along with...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Wyrd Sisters, Part I
More witches, more mayhem, more Shakespearean intrigue in this round. Grab a cauldron, everyone. It’s time to hang out with some Wyrd Sisters. Summary There’s a storm and Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Wyrd Sisters, Part II
Everyone gather in the greenroom for warmup exercises before the curtain. We’re continuing Wyrd Sisters… Summary A year passes and Vitoller is talking to his dwarven playwright Hwel about their next...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Wyrd Sisters, Part III
Don’t forget to pack your bread knives—we’re back with the Wyrd Sisters! Summary Magrat enters the castle grounds by insisting that she’s an apple seller. In the Great Hall she’s immediately accosted...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Wyrd Sisters, Part IV
The play’s the thing, or that’s what the Bard says anyhow. (Or it might be the pay, apparently.) So we should probably get back to it in our read of Wyrd Sisters. Summary Hwel is trying to write his...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Wyrd Sisters, Part V
Curtain up, it’s time for the only show that matters in Lancre—which brings us to the end Wyrd Sisters. Summary The play begins and the actors are having a rough time of it, so Hwel tries to pep talk...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Pyramids, Part I
We’re heading into one of the few singular plotline Discworld books… time to start Pyramids. Summary In the Assassin’s Guildhouse, Teppic dresses himself in the garb and equipment of an assassin and...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Pyramids, Part II
Chances are, if you were ever interested in ancient Egyptian culture in your history studies, the title of the next section of Pyramids will be all too familiar. Let’s get into The Book of the Dead....
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Pyramids, Part III
Sometimes you just accidentally build a pyramid so large that it swallows an entire land via cosmic powers. It’s time for “The Book of the New Son”, part three of Pyramids. Summary Djelibeybi has...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Pyramids, Part IV
It’s time to figure out how to fix that dimension pyramid snafu in the final book of Pyramids: “The Book of 101 Things A Boy Can Do”. Summary Teppic and You Bastard have accidentally wandered into a...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Guards! Guards! Part I
It’s time to meet the Ankh-Morpork City Watch! Well, what’s left of them. Let’s call on some Guards! Guards! Summary The Supreme Grand Master of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night tells his...
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Not All Worldbuilding Needs to Be Meticulous to Be Effective
The goal of building a fictional world isn’t to build a world. It’s to build a metaphor. And the success of the world you build isn’t measured by how complete or coherent or well-mapped the world is....
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Guards! Guards! Part II
Okay, we’re back and there are some dragons, so let’s get on with Guards! Guards! Summary The Watch members are drunk and have accidentally staggered into The Shades without realizing it. Once they do,...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Guards! Guards! Part III
We’re getting ready to watch a dragon-slaying—or are we? Let’s get back to Guards! Guards! Summary The mob turns up at Lady Ramkin’s door assuming one of her dragons must be the culprit of all the...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Guards! Guards! Part IV
We’ve made a deal with a dragon that we can’t undo. Back to Guards! Guards! Summary The Watch is stationed about for the coronation (after Carrot makes note that he thinks Errol must be ill because...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Guards! Guards! Part V
Now it’s time to see that dragon off and have a good old-fashioned hero ceremony. We’re about to finish Guards! Guards! Summary Vimes is digging away the mortar between the bars of the cell while the...
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The Power of Adolescent Anger: L’Engle’s Meg Murry and Pratchett’s Tiffany...
I’m delighted whenever I come across angry adolescent girls acting as protagonists in science fiction and fantasy, because I’ve found it’s not a long list. There are, of course, angry female villains,...
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Five Books About the Culture of Gaming
I love games. Always have, always will. Digital, tabletop, physical—doesn’t matter. My first career was playing one, but I think the biggest thing that’s drawn me to them is what games reveal about the...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Eric, Part I
Let’s get Faustian. (Literally.) It’s time to meet Eric… Summary Death is tending to his bees when there’s a breeze in his realm and the sound of feet running and someone going on about how they don’t...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Eric, Part II
This is not the face that launched a thousand ships because that’s hyperbole, kids. It’s time to finish up Faust Eric! Summary Rincewind tries to get them out of the city, which only has the effect of...
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