He is a satirist of enormous talent..Incredibly funny, compulsively readable (The Times)He would be amusing in any form and his spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction (Daily Mail)Pure fantastic delight (Time Out)

?Incredibly funny, compulsively readable? The Times

The Discworld is very much like our own ? if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . .

'What shall we do?' said Twoflower. 'Panic?' said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival.

As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld could do with a hero.

What it doesn?t need is a singularly inept and cowardly wizard, still recovering from the trauma of falling off the edge of the world, or a well-meaning tourist and his luggage which has a mind (and legs) of its own.

Which is a shame, because that's all there is . . . ____________________

The Discworld novels can be read in any order but The Light Fantastic is the second book in the Wizards series.

Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. He died in March 2015.