Discworld is an extragavanza--among much else, it has billions of gods. "They swarm as thick as herring roe," writes Terry Pratchett in Small Gods, the 13th book in the series. Where there are gods galore, there are priests, high and low, and... there are novices. Brutha is a novice with little chance to become a priest--thinking does not come easily to him, although believing does. But it is to Brutha that the great god Om manifests, in the lowly form of a tortoise. --Blaise Selby
"Terry Pratchett is fast, funny and going places. Try him!"
"Pratchett is the funniest parodist working in the field today,period."
"There is no end to the wacky wonders . . . no fantasies as consistently, inventively mad . . . wild and wonderful!"
"Delightful . . . logically illogical as only Terry Pratchett canwrite."
"Terry Pratchett does for fantasy what Douglas Adams did forscience fiction."
"Unadulterated fun . . . witty, frequently hilarious . . .Pratchett parodies everything in sight."
Review
"Surely the best novel Terry Pratchett has ever written, and the best comedy"
-John Clute, Interzone
Book Description
Lost in the chill deeps of space between the galaxies, it sails on forever, a flat, circular world carried on the back of a giant turtle--
DISCWORLD
--a land where the unexpected can be expected. Where the strangest things happen to the nicest people. Like Brutha, a simple lad who only wants to tend his melon patch. Until one day he hears the voice of a god calling his name. A small god, to be sure. But bossy as Hell.
From the Publisher
"Surely the best novel Terry Pratchett has ever written, and the best comedy"
-John Clute, Interzone
Small Gods ANNOTATION
Lost in the chill deeps of space between the galaxies, it sails on forever, a flat, circular world carried on the backs of four giant turtles. This is Discworld--a land where the unexpected can be expected, where the strangest things happen to the nicest people.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Lost in the chill deeps of space between the galaxies, it sails on forever, a flat, circular world carried on the back of a giant turtle—
DISCWORLD
—a land where the unexpected can be expected. Where the strangest things happen to the nicest people. Like Brutha, a simple lad who only wants to tend his melon patch. Until one day he hears the voice of a god calling his name. A small god, to be sure. But bossy as Hell.
FROM THE CRITICS
Piers Anthony
Terry Pratchett is fast, funny and going places. Try him!
Anne McCaffrey
Delightful . . . logically illogical as only Terry Pratchett canwrite.
Today
Terry Pratchett does for fantasy what Douglas Adams did for science fiction.
San Francisco Chronicle
Unadulterated fun . . . witty, frequently hilarious . . .Pratchett parodies everything in sight.
Locus
Pratchett demonstrates just how great the distance is betweenone- or two-joke writers and the comic masters whose workwill still be read into the next century. So, no more talk abouthis 'getting better with each book.' He reached the top of hisform some time ago, and should remain there for years, toeveryone's benefit.
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