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Diskworld and other Fantasy
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I’m currently reading “Postal Service” a Diskworld novel by Terry Pratchett, I have to say its very good, I’m not normally a fan of fantasy, in fact some of them are just so nerdy I took a vow never to read a Fantasy Trilogy there full of bollox.
What Pratchett does is to make the fantasy world part of the real world with bankers engineers journalists, and the basis of an industrial revolution.
The campaign for equal heights was clever objecting to such remarks as “small talk” and “feeling small” again parodying the real world.
In other fantasy you don’t get that you get some stupid hero chasing the dark wizard Agramendong who has caste a spell on the good King, in the Kingdom of something with a long silly name, etc etc.
The only other fantasy I like and its better than Pratchett but of course not as funny is the Conan stories originally by Robert E Howard, these are very dark and almost morbid, very good character
What Pratchett does is to make the fantasy world part of the real world with bankers engineers journalists, and the basis of an industrial revolution.
The campaign for equal heights was clever objecting to such remarks as “small talk” and “feeling small” again parodying the real world.
In other fantasy you don’t get that you get some stupid hero chasing the dark wizard Agramendong who has caste a spell on the good King, in the Kingdom of something with a long silly name, etc etc.
The only other fantasy I like and its better than Pratchett but of course not as funny is the Conan stories originally by Robert E Howard, these are very dark and almost morbid, very good character
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They are especially effective when you recognise what books are being parodied.
The genius of Pratchett now is that he has developed as an author and his stories are about issues which are relevant in our world, they are just set on the discworld. Going Postal is a prime example, it is his view about running public services for profit instead of the good of the community, this is why i enjoy his stories because they may be fantasy but the themes are bout the real world.
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