13 Facts About Discworld

1.

Discworld 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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2.

Discworld novels have won awards such as the Prometheus Award and the Carnegie Medal.

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3.

Discworld novels contain common themes and motifs that run through the series.

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4.

Parodies of non-Discworld fiction occur frequently, including Shakespeare, Beatrix Potter, and several movies.

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5.

Discworld is a wizard with no skill, no wizardly qualifications, and no interest in heroics.

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6.

Discworld is extremely cowardly but is constantly thrust into dangerous adventures.

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7.

Discworld saves Discworld on several occasions, and has an instrumental role in the emergence of life on Roundworld .

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8.

Discworld is a seven-foot-tall skeleton in a black robe who sits astride a pale horse .

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9.

Discworld's dialogue is always depicted in small caps, and without quotation marks, as several characters state that Death's voice seems to arrive in their heads without actually passing through their ears as sound.

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10.

Discworld appears in the short stories Death and What Comes Next, Theatre of Cruelty and Turntables of the Night.

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11.

Discworld's largely despises people but takes on the role of their healer and protector because no one else can do the job as well as she can.

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12.

Discworld's is aided in her task by the Nac Mac Feegle, a gang of blue-tattooed, 6-inch tall, hard-drinking, loud-mouthed pictsie creatures called "The Wee Free Men" who serve as her guardians.

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13.

Discworld's is the protagonist of five novels, The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight, and The Discworld'spherd's Crown.

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