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"Colour of Magic", "Light Fantastic": The Colour of Magic and the Light Fantastic (The First Discworld Novels) - Hardcover
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Together in one volume, here are the first two Discworld novels, featuring Rincewind the wizard and his Luggage, Twoflower and innocent tourist and Cohen the Barbarian, the world's oldest and greatest hero. And not to mention Death, who's not so bad once you get to know him.
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Terry Pratchett's bestselling Discworld comedies have become an almost terrifying phenomenon generating spin-offs and merchandise on a scale to rival Tolkien. This snazzy omnibus edition of the two novels that began it all comes from their original publisher Colin Smythe Ltd with a new Josh Kirby cover painting. Collectors will love it, but although it's huge fun for fantasy buffs The Colour of Magic (1983) may not be a new reader's best gateway to Discworld. Parts of it rely on pastiche spoofing Fritz Leiber's rogue adventurers, H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu horrors and Anne McCaffrey's dragonriders. The episodic story sees the comically inept wizard Rincewind and Discworld's first naive tourist Twoflower pursued by Death (and worse) to the disc edge where the sea pours off into space--and beyond. Their adventures continue in The Light Fantastic (1986) which is both funnier--lots of rapid-fire jokes--and darker, foreshadowing the adroit balance of hilarity and grimness that makes the best Discworld novels tick. Pratchett applies merciless common sense to fantasy: when a wizard seals himself in a box intended to keep out Death, the lack of airholes means that he very soon hears a hollow voice say "dark in here, isn't it?" These books are loved by millions. --David Langford
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Together in one volume, here are the first two Discworld novels, featuring Rincewind the wizard and his Luggage, Twoflower and innocent tourist and Cohen the Barbarian, the world's oldest and greatest hero. And not to mention Death, who's not so bad once you get to know him. Together in one volume, here are the first two Discworld novels, featuring Rincewind the wizard and his Luggage, Twoflower and innocent tourist and Cohen the Barbarian, the world's oldest and greatest hero. And not to mention Death, who's not so bad once you get to know him. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780861404216
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The Colour of Magic & The Light Fantastic: This is how the Discworld began. In The Colour of Magic the failed wizard Rincewind burst upon the world and hasn't stopped running since. This was the book that started the phenomenally successful fantasy series. Here is the sapient pearwood Luggage, a mobile trunk which launders any clothes put in it and incidentally homicidally defends its owner. Here is Twoflower, an innocent tourist in a world of nightmares and fairy tales gone wrong. Here is Cohen the Barbarian, the world's oldest and greatest hero. Here is Death, not such a bad sort when you get to know him. They have adventures. It'd take to long too explain. Just read it! First published in 1983, The Colour of Magic has been translated into thirty languages, and has sold over two million copies in Corgi editions alone. The Light Fantastic, published in 1986, follows closely behind, and of all the Discworld novels it is the only true sequel to an earlier work. This two-in-one volume was first published in 1999. Seller Inventory # CIN0861404211VG