The Light Fantastic
| Property6 | Value |
|---|---|
| Author Name | Pratchett, Terry |
| Series | Discworld |
| Book Number | 2 |
| Summary | Picking up where The Color of Magic left off, a great approaching star threatens the Disc's inhabitants, and Rincewind is compelled to be the hero he never wanted to be. |
| Recommendation | Recommended |
| Date Read | 2025-07-08 |
The second book in the Diacworld series, but the first one that feels like a Discworld book.
We follow on soon after The Color of Magic with Rincewind, Twoflower, and The Luggage, and immediately this book has more energy. There's a direction, there's a feeling of a goal, and we get more of the Pratchettian non-sequiturs that drew me into the books when I first discovered them. We also meet Cohen the Barbarian and Bethan, fins some druids making a big computer, and have a ticking timebomb element.
Something though that I'm reminded of with this book is how similar comedy and horror can be. There's a mix of that here, and I wonder if some of the violence described would translate as well to a pure comedy.[1]
Where The Color of Magic felt like a collection of stories, The Light Fantastic felt connected and drove towards a satisfying conclusion.
of course, I'm reminded of Deadpool, and I feel like this is a very similar vein. ↩︎