![]() ![]() ![]() The blurb opens with the tagline: “The funniest and most unorthodox fantasy in this or any other galaxy”, which sounded like a very deliberate and unsubtle dig at Douglas Adams. We’ve since lost touch, but if he’s out there and he stumbles upon this little blog, I hope he’s happy I finally got around to picking up his favourite □ ![]() All I knew about the book going in, though, was that a friend of mine from university loved Pratchett, and his shelves were stuffed with books from this series. The first print run of the British edition produced just 506 copies I can only imagine the panic at the printers when they realised just how many more they’d need, because it achieved instant popularity. The Colour Of Magic is a comic fantasy novel, the first in Pratchett’s Discworld series, published in 1983. ![]()
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