Not quite the gleefully insane parody Strata (1981) was, but frothy, inventive, and fun.Īre we not men? We are-well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).Ī zombie apocalypse is one thing. And what follows is madcap travelogue, involving: the disk's zany, often magical inhabitants the Gods (atheists are liable to get their windows broken) a watery being who splashed down in the ocean, having fallen off a different Earth-disk and Death with his scythe (whose timing is so poor that Rincewind keeps evading him). The innocent Twoflower sells some fire insurance to a shifty innkeeper, who proceeds to burn down his inn and the entire city of Ankh-Morpork. and snaps its lid at anyone it doesn't like. (And only Pratchett's characters would think of lowering themselves over the edge of the disk-in order to determine the sex of the turtle!) This time failed wizard Rincewind runs into problems when he encounters rich, bumbling circum-disk tourist Twoflower-whose luggage consists of a sapient pearwood box that trots around after him on hundreds of tiny legs. Pratchett borrows from Babylonian cosmology for his second, wacky flat-Earth yarn-set on an Earth.disk that rests on the backs of four elephants, who themselves stand on the shell of an enormous turtle.
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