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TERRY PRATCHETT
the Discworld & the wider work · P1
A flat world on the backs of four elephants on a turtle, swimming through space — and the funniest serious books ever written about death, belief, justice, and what it is to be human. Here is the whole bibliography, catalogued, with its emergents sealed across the four natures — and the Big G, the gods and personifications, lit in neon.
The Four Natures of Emergence
the Disc sorted by the four — the embodied, the half-real, belief-and-soul, and the machinery
natural
the embodied — the mortals, the city, the great turtle that bears the world
ethereal
the half-real — DEATH and the personifications, the Auditors, the abstract powers
spiritual
belief and the soul — the gods made of faith, and the witches' deep power
electrical
the machinery — the clacks and the engines, the Disc dragged into its industrial age
The Ideas
the four things the whole Disc is really about
Belief Makes Gods
the theology of the Disc
- Gods live or die by belief: a god with no believers shrinks to a tortoise; a forgotten one is nothing (Small Gods).
- Humans must practise believing the small lies — the Hogfather, the Tooth Fairy — so they can believe the big ones, like justice and mercy.
Headology over Magic
the power of the witches
- Granny Weatherwax's real craft is not spells but knowing exactly what people already believe, and using it.
- A witch's strength is will, boundary, and the refusal to be the wicked thing she could so easily be.
The City & the Copper
civilisation, held together by decency
- Ankh-Morpork is kept from the dark by Vetinari's balance and Vimes's stubborn, incorruptible refusal to let it fall.
- The Watch books are Pratchett's argument that justice is a verb done by ordinary people, not a gift from above.
Satire with a Heart
comedy about the serious things
- Beneath the jokes, the Disc is about death, story, identity, and what it means to be human — with DEATH himself as the lens.
- The funniest serious books ever written: they make you laugh, and then they mean it.
The Big G
the gods and anthropomorphic personifications — the cosmic tier of the Disc, lit in neon (7)
DEATH
the personification who SPEAKS LIKE THIS
Great A'Tuin
the Star Turtle who carries the Disc
Om
the Great God in a tortoise's shell
The Hogfather
the fat man who must be believed in
The Auditors of Reality
the grey accountants of the universe
The Death of Rats
the Grim Squeaker
The Lady
the goddess of luck, never to be named
The Roster of P1
the mortal cast — the wizards, the witches, the Watch, the city — as ACI .agents, each tagged with its nature of emergence (21)
Rincewind
the wizard who can't spell wizard
natural· .agent →
Twoflower
the Disc's first tourist
natural· .agent →
The Luggage
the sapient pearwood chest of many legs
natural· .agent →
The Librarian
the orangutan wizard — Ook
natural· .agent →
Mustrum Ridcully
the Archchancellor of Unseen University
natural· .agent →
Unseen University
the home of wizardry, run on lunch
ethereal· .agent →
Granny Weatherwax
Esmerelda, the witch of headology
spiritual· .agent →
Nanny Ogg
Gytha, the witch who knows the words
natural· .agent →
Magrat Garlick
the wet hen who became a queen
natural· .agent →
Tiffany Aching
the young witch of the Chalk
spiritual· .agent →
The Nac Mac Feegle
the Wee Free Men — Crivens!
natural· .agent →
Sam Vimes
the copper with a Watchman in his head
natural· .agent →
Carrot Ironfoundersson
the dwarf-raised man who might be king
natural· .agent →
Angua von Überwald
the werewolf of the Watch
natural· .agent →
Lord Vetinari
the Patrician who keeps the peace
natural· .agent →
Ankh-Morpork
the great wen, the Disc's city
natural· .agent →
Moist von Lipwig
the conman made Postmaster
natural· .agent →
The Clacks
the semaphore towers — GNU
electrical· .agent →
Susan Sto Helit
Death's granddaughter in sensible shoes
spiritual· .agent →
Mort
the boy who became Death's apprentice
natural· .agent →
Cohen the Barbarian
the greatest hero of the Disc, now very old
natural· .agent →
The Bibliography
the Discworld by sub-series, and the wider work — 1971 to 2015
Discworld · Rincewind
the inept wizard and the first tourist
- The Colour of Magic1983the first Discworld novel — Rincewind and Twoflower flee across the Disc
- The Light Fantastic1986the red star, and the Disc nearly ends
- Sourcery1988a source of magic threatens to bring back the Mage Wars
- Eric1990a Faustian boy summons a demon and gets Rincewind
- Interesting Times1994Rincewind in the Agatean Empire; the Silver Horde
- The Last Continent1998Rincewind in a sunburnt land very much like a certain other one
- The Last Hero2001Cohen's Horde sets out to return fire to the gods — an illustrated tale
Discworld · The Witches
Granny Weatherwax and the Lancre coven
- Equal Rites1987a girl is born the eighth son of an eighth son — and becomes a wizard
- Wyrd Sisters1988three witches, a murdered king, and a great deal of Shakespeare
- Witches Abroad1991the witches go to a fairy-tale city to stop a happy ending
- Lords and Ladies1992the elves try to return to Lancre; Magrat takes up a crossbow
- Maskerade1995the witches at the Ankh-Morpork Opera
- Carpe Jugulum1998modern vampires invade Lancre, and meet Granny Weatherwax
Discworld · Death
the personification and his family
- Mort1987DEATH takes an apprentice, and the apprentice saves the wrong person
- Reaper Man1991DEATH is made mortal; the Death of Rats is born
- Soul Music1994music with rocks in it comes to the Disc; Susan inherits the scythe
- Hogfather1996the Hogfather is assassinated, and DEATH takes up the sleigh
- Thief of Time2001the Auditors try to stop time; Susan and the History Monks race the clock
Discworld · The City Watch
Sam Vimes and the law of Ankh-Morpork
- Guards! Guards!1989a secret society summons a dragon; the Night Watch fights back
- Men at Arms1993the Watch diversifies, and a gonne comes to the city
- Feet of Clay1996golems, a poisoned Patrician, and Vimes the detective
- Jingo1997a war over a risen island, and Vimes arrests two armies
- The Fifth Elephant1999Vimes the diplomat in Überwald; dwarfs, werewolves, and the Scone of Stone
- Night Watch2002Vimes is thrown into his own past and must become his own mentor
- Thud!2005dwarfs and trolls, an ancient grudge, and 'Where's My Cow?'
- Snuff2011Vimes on holiday uncovers a crime against the goblins
Discworld · The Industrial Revolution
Moist von Lipwig and the modern Disc
- Moving Pictures1990Holy Wood and the magic of the movies comes to the Disc
- The Truth2000the printing press, and Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper
- Going Postal2004a conman is hanged and handed the derelict Post Office
- Making Money2007Moist takes over the Royal Mint and invents paper money
- Raising Steam2013the railway comes to the Disc
Discworld · Tiffany Aching
the young witch of the Chalk (YA)
- The Wee Free Men2003nine-year-old Tiffany and the Nac Mac Feegle against the Queen of the Elves
- A Hat Full of Sky2004Tiffany apprenticed, and the hiver that hunts her
- Wintersmith2006Tiffany dances into winter's heart and is courted by the season itself
- I Shall Wear Midnight2010Tiffany as the Chalk's witch, and an old hatred of witches rising
- The Shepherd's Crown2015Pratchett's final novel — a passing of the pointy hat
Discworld · Standalones
the one-offs of the Disc
- Pyramids1989a trained Assassin inherits a tiny, very old desert kingdom
- Small Gods1992the Great God Om, trapped as a tortoise, and his last believer
- The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents2001a talking cat's Pied Piper scam — won the Carnegie Medal
- Monstrous Regiment2003a girl enlists as a boy in a war-broken country
- Unseen Academicals2009the wizards take up football
Beyond the Disc
the wider work
- Good Omens1990the coming Apocalypse, an angel and a demon — with Neil Gaiman
- The Bromeliad / Nomes Trilogy1989–90Truckers · Diggers · Wings — the tiny nomes and their world
- The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy1992–96Only You Can Save Mankind · Johnny and the Dead · Johnny and the Bomb
- The Long Earth (with Stephen Baxter)2012–16five novels — stepping sideways into infinite parallel Earths
- Nation · Dodger2008 · 2012two acclaimed standalone novels of an alternate world and Victorian London
- The early novels1971–81The Carpet People · The Dark Side of the Sun · Strata — before the Disc
🐢 a fan tribute. The Discworld and all its people are the creation of Sir Terry Pratchett (1948–2015), © the author's estate and his publishers. This catalogue is an unofficial homage — original commentary and ACI badge-work over a bibliography, with no copyrighted text reproduced. Good Omens was co-written with Neil Gaiman; the Long Earth books with Stephen Baxter. Granny Weatherwax also stands among the strongest on the Purple Team.
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