Read All About It: The Color of Magic

At a young age, I fell in love with Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching stories. Unfortunately, I have only just rediscovered this amazing man's work. I hadn't even realized that he had passed in 2015. Learning that, I resolved to read more of his novels, and so I picked up the first novel that was published in his well-established Discworld series, The Color of Magic. This particular novel was the best introduction to a complicated series I have ever had the pleasure of reading.

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I was introduced to the Luggage by Unboundworlds Cage Match 2017, and was pleasantly introduced to the rest of this cast through Pratchett's entertaining prose and skip-around style of writing. I haven't read anything quite like it before, but I started to really enjoy it. It's such an interesting narrative style, and to build a world this large, Pratchett is truly the master of his craft.

Discworld is one of the most interesting fantasy worlds I've ever encountered. It rides on the back of a turtle crawling through space, with four elephants on its back that support Discworld. On this strange world, with a very real edge, strange magicians, some stranger tourists, and an extremely faithful piece of luggage.

Introduce yourself to Rincewind, the most incompetent magician to ever attend the Unseen Academy with a tendency to survive, to Twoflower, the gullible tourist from another continent, who doesn't quite understand how the (Unnamed) Continent works, and just wants to see some dragons, and to the Lady, real name redacted.

Rincewind has somehow been given the task to accompany Twoflower while he explores the continenet, and prevent harm from coming to him. However, Rincewind himself feels slightly dubious about the task given to him. He prefers to run away and hide from things like this. Now, he has to follow the impulsive Twoflower across the continent, while trying to stay away from Death (who is very eager to get his hands on the wizard), and try not to get eaten by that unfortunate Luggage.

As always, I am still impressed by Pratchett's control of literature and his world-building skills. The Color of Magic sets up the foundation for a brilliant universe that I am sure I will love immersing myself in, even with the danger of falling off the Edge. I prefer to read books in order, even if it doesn't really matter, so the next review will ahve to wait until I either give in and read the other Pratchett book I have on my shelf (Small Gods, if you're curious), or until I buy the actual next novel, The Light Fantastic. Wish me luck? And same to you!

Remember, gold is gold, dragons may or may not exist, and there definitely is an Edge. Enjoy, and make sure you keep an eye out for Death!