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The Light Fantastic
A Fantasy Novel by Terry Pratchett
Book 2 of the Discworld Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Comic Fantasy,
- Quest
This book is for you if you're into...
- Magical libraries with their own wild physics and secret passageways
- Hapless heroes stumbling through cosmic disasters with a side of chaos
- Sentient luggage and wizards who'd rather be anywhere else
From Little Stack
I’m just going to say it: The Library in the Unseen University is, and will forever be, my favorite magical library.
In true Pratchett style, it’s got its own “science” to explain just how it’s so powerful: “Knowledge equals power. Power equals energy. Energy equals matter. Matter equals mass. And mass distorts space. It distorts it into polyfractal L-space.”
L-space connects every sufficiently large library ever to exist, so you can wander through the library stacks and end up anywhere, and anywhen. Add to that the truly singular Librarian himself, a wizard turned into an orangutan by a spell gone wrong (or right?), it’s the sort of spectacular creation that could only have come from the mind of PTerry himself.
It’s just one of those days when nothing seems to go right—and a most inopportune time for the first tourist ever to set foot in Discworld—accompanied by the carnivorous Luggage—to extend his already eventful vacation, even if it’s not quite by choice. A monstrous red star is on a direct collision course with the Discworld and the future appears uncertain at best.
Discworld needs a hero to save it from total destruction. Unfortunately, it’s got the bumbling Rincewind, still recovering from the trauma of falling off the edge of the world. The alternative couldn’t be much worse. . . .
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