Discworld Re-read 2021 - Introduction
The Discworld books are a series by Terry Pratchett that, at their core, consist of 41 novels published between 1983 and 2015, a few months after his death from early-onset Alzheimer's disease. I began reading the series as a teenager in the mid-90s following the recommendation of a friend, and quickly became hooked. I caught up with the back-catalogue and followed the rapidly-expanding series through the release of the new paperbacks. Once I reached adulthood (and realised just how much re-reading the books would have to withstand!) I switched to hardbacks and now have a mixed collection of all the novels, as well as a few of the associated works. The series started as a parody of fantasy novels, but quickly evolved into something far more substantial. The Discworld is, as its name suggests, a flat world, disc-shaped. It sits on top of four elephants which themselves stand on the back of a giant space turtle called A'Tuin. The world is inhabited by all sorts of creatures al