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| author = Terry Pratchett
| central theme =
| elevator pitch = A [[picaresque]] across the [[Discworld]]
| genre = Fantasy
| franchise = Discworld
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| publication date = 1983
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The very first ''[[Discworld]]'' novel, from 1983. Unlike most of the later ones,
Written as a travelogue in which cowardly failed wizard Rincewind and [[Fish Out of Water]] Twoflower, the world's first tourist, travel much of the Disc while running away from things with big teeth and men with swords.
Was adapted (with quite a lot of [[Adaptation Distillation]]) by Sky TV in 2007, together with ''[[
Unlike later ''Discworld'' novels, is split into six parts rather than a continuous chapterless piece.
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* [[H.P. Lovecraft]] (Bel-Shamharoth's temple.)
* [[Michael Moorcock]] (The concept of the Eternal Hero and the Companion to Champions. Rincewind as an incompetent ''Elric'' who can neither cast spells nor use weapons. The Black Sword that sucks souls to Hell: here, a sword that drags people into a Hell of boredom and ennui as it grabs the ear of the listener and ''will not let go''. Capricious and chaotic Gods playing with human life for kicks.)
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* [[Alien Geometries]]: Bel-Shamharoth's temple is made up of eight-sided stone slabs. Yes, ''only'' eight-sided stone slabs (although it doesn't say they're ''convex'' octagons)...
* [[All Amazons Want Hercules]]: Liessa Wyrmbidder and Hrun the barbarian.
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** One paragraph particularly stands out, when Rincewind is surprised that dryads still exist. His monologue mentions that it's thought that only trolls and elves survived the "coming of men to the Disc" and that gnomes and pixies have died out. Later books instead state that there are no elves on the Disc and gnomes and pixies are very much still there.
*** Considering how badly Rincewind did at University, he may simply have misremembered his history lessons. For that matter, the lessons themselves could've been wrong, given how many other things the UU wizards are clueless about.
** Hrun says that swamp dragons are extinct; they prominently appear in later books, like ''[[
*** Rincewind notes to himself that he's never seen Hrun outside of Ahnk-Morpork before, and when Hrun is out doing the heroing thing, he's very different from the drunken lout Rincewind has previously seen. It's quite possible that swamp dragons are extinct apart from being kept as pets, and he's never noticed them in cities because on arrival in any city, Hrun goes into the first tavern and drinks until he runs out of money or bartender's patience.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: The epic descriptions of Great A'tuin, the elephants and the Disc. This is often briefly recapped at the start of later novels, but ''The Colour of Magic'' has such descriptions throughout (particularly called-back at the end, where Tethys holds Rincewind over the Edge and he sees them for himself).
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* [[You Said You Would Let Them Go|You Said You Would Let Me Go]]: This was the reward the High Priest of Krull promised his architect, a man so brilliant, he had already been mutilated by three previous employers so he could never surpass his work for them. Unfortunately for the architect, [[I Lied]].
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