Terry Pratchett – Xaviar X. Xerexes

Bookmark: Terry Pratchett

by Xaviar XerexesSeptember 4, 2015

RIP Sir Terence David John “Terry” Pratchett, OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015). Forty one Discworld novels have been published. Within Discworld, Pratchett weaved a narrative with many different characters that each had their own narratives across several books. So much so that anyone approaching reading them needs a guide on how to make sense of it all. The L-Space web has put together the above graphic which suggests starting points for each of the major “series” of stories within the novels. There is an alternative version below.

The Long Read

by Xaviar XerexesSeptember 8, 2013

I picked up The Long Earth when it first came out, excited to see another novel from Terry Pratchett. It has a great world-building concept; a series of parallel earths that can be reached by “stepping” from one world to the next. And the stepping is triggered by an invention straight out of a typical Pratchett novel. Unfortunately nothing after feels anything like Pratchett. Which means the book must be a lot more Stephen Baxter than Terry Pratchett. (But I haven’t read Baxter so I don’t know if it’s all him or the sum of the two authors is just …