Interesting Times

¿Funny, delightfully inventive, and refuses to lie down in its genre¿ Observer

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 . . .
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There is a curse. They say: may you live in interesting times.

¿May you live in interesting times¿ is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld, especially on the distinctly unmagical Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life and can¿t even spell wizard.

So when a request for a ;Great Wizzard; arrives in Ankh-Morpork via carrier albatross from the faraway Counterweight Continent, it''s the endlessly unlucky Rincewind who''s sent as emissary. The oldest (and most heavily fortified) empire on the Disc is in turmoil, and Chaos is building. And, for some incomprehensible reaso