The Last Continent: A Discworld Novel: 22 - Softcover

Terry Pratchett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552146145 ISBN 13: 9780552146142

Publisher: Corgi, 1999

Synopsis

IT'S THE DISCWORLD'S LAST CONTINENT AND IT'S GOING TO DIE IN A FEW DAYS, EXCEPT...

Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Sheep shearer, beer drinker, bush ranger, and someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's sober.

A man in a hat whose luggage follows him on little legs. Yes, it's Rincewind, the inept wizard who can't even spell wizard. He's the only hero left.

Still...no worries, eh?

About this title

Review:

Terry Pratchett's 22nd Discworld novel, The Last Continent, is a lighthearted tour of the fantasy land of Fourecks, a very Australian sort of place, with brief courses in theoretical physics and evolution thrown in for good measure. Pratchett returns to his first Discworld protagonist, the inept and cowardly wizard Rincewind, who habitually runs into trouble as fast as he flees. Rincewind's arrival in Fourecks has distorted the space-time continuum, and he has to sort it out before the whole place dries up and blows away. The situation is complicated because the actual problem is located 30,000 years in the past--just where the Faculty of the Unseen University currently are. Pretty frightening, given "the true wizard's instinct to amble aimlessly into dangerous places," and then "stop and argue ... about exactly what kind of danger it [is]."

If you're baffled by all this, no worries, mate. You needn't have read Pratchett before--not even the five previous Discworld novels starring Rincewind (The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Sourcery, Eric, and Interesting Times)--to enjoy this latest romp. Nor to have visited Australia. When you finish, however, you'll likely want to rush out and do both. --Nona Vero

Review:

"'A cross between Tolkien and a gentler, more benign Tom Sharpe'" (Charles Spencer Sunday Telegraph)

"'The humour sparkles as brightly as ever' The Times" (The Times)

About this edition

• Publisher: Corgi
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0552146145
• ISBN 13: 9780552146142
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416