However, the first Discworld novel The Colour of Magic was divided into 'books', as is Pyramids. Pratchett was quoted as saying that he 'just never got into the habit of chapters', later adding that 'I have to shove them in the putative YA books because my editor screams until I do'. Instead, they feature interweaving storylines. Very few of the Discworld novels have chapter divisions. More than 80 million Discworld books have been sold in 37 languages. In the BBC's Big Read, four Discworld novels were in the top 100, and a total of fourteen in the top 200. Discworld novels have also won awards such as the Prometheus Award and the Carnegie Medal. The series has been adapted for graphic novels, theatre, computer and board games, and television.ĭiscworld books regularly topped Sunday Times best-sellers list, making Pratchett the UK's best-selling author in the 1990s.

Companion publications include eleven short stories (some only loosely related to the Discworld), four popular science books, and a number of supplementary books and reference guides. The American editions, published by HarperCollins, used their own cover art. After Kirby's death in 2001, the covers were designed by Paul Kidby. Apart from the first novel in the series, The Colour of Magic, the original British editions of the first 26 novels, up to Thief of Time (2001), had cover art by Josh Kirby. The books frequently parody or take inspiration from classic works, usually fantasy or science fiction, as well as mythology, folklore and fairy tales, and often use them for satirical parallels with cultural, political and scientific issues.įorty-one Discworld novels were published. The series began in 1983 with The Colour of Magic and continued until the final novel The Shepherd's Crown, which was published in 2015, following Pratchett's death. Cover of the first edition of The Colour of Magic art by Alan Smithĭiscworld is a comic fantasy book series written by the English author Terry Pratchett, set on the Discworld, a flat planet balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle.

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