The Discworld Companion: An Invaluable Guide for the Discerning Discworld Traveller

by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs

Book Overview

The Discworld, as everyone knows, is a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the shell of the giant star turtle, the Great A'Tuin, as it slowly swims through... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0575600306
• ISBN13: 9780575600300
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Gollancz
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 1.2" x 4.4"

Customer Reviews

Only if you already know the series

Terry Pratchett is, oh, 500 books deep into the Discworld series, or at least so it seems. The number is actually around 25. This book is an encyclopedia of Discworld chracters (Death, Cohen the Barbarian and so forth), plus Discworld places and concepts. It's a funny book, but you won't get much out of it if you aren't into the series. If you have read several of the series, it's a great resource -- and, like everything by Pratchett, immensely witty.

A Must For All Discworld Readers

A perfect companion to all the other novels published to date since it gives an excellent rundown of who's who and what's what in the expansive lands of Discworld. But, like most books that compile everything and everyone known in a storyline series, it becomes sort of out-of-date immediately after being released because new information is released all the time as the author continues to expand the universe with new books. The Discworld Companion is still a worthy tome to have due to the vast amount of highly detailed information within it. You won't be disappointed.

Unusually Useful

I got this when I was in high school and doing book reports. Since I liked reading Discworld so much I got this book and had lots of fun making fancy book reports with it. Its also useful when a dispute among Discworld fans arises and here you have your answers! Its also full of illustrations that add to the fun of reading Discworld novels. Although I wouldn't just read it cover to cover, whenever you need a laugh just open this book randomly and start reading!

"Discworld Companion" a truly complete guide.

Exhaustive research must have gone into this book. I must say that I am most impressed with how complete The Discworld Companion is. Any reference to any character yet created in Pratchett's Discworld is in here... this is an important and vital part of any Discworld fan's collection.