All 41 of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books are great, but I think the Disc's Golden Age runs from Wyrd Sisters (1988) to Night Watch (2002) - here's why!
00:00 Intro
02:28 The Discworld
04:18 The sub-categories
08:04 4 phases of Discworld
12:10 The Golden Age
15:44 What's special about Wyrd Sisters
22:02 Plot summary
25:41 Themes & destiny
29:37 The start of the Golden Age
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An article I wrote for Den of Geek on the Cosgrove Hall Discworld adaptations, which I think are underrated: https://www.denofgeek.com/books/the-animated-discworld-adaptations-you-may-have-forgotten/
Books and sources:
Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson, The Folklore of Discworld
James B. South, ‘”Nothing Like a Bit of Destiny to Get the Old Plot Rolling”: A Philosophical Reading of Wyrd Sisters, in Jacob M. Held and James B. South (eds), Philosophy and Terry Pratchett.
Image credits:
The Discworld Emporium: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Image of most of the Discworld books (Josh Kirby/Paul Kidby covers) via https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124883349734
Screenshots from Cosgrove Hall’s animated adaptation of Wyrd Sisters via https://vhistory.wordpress.com/2021/03/09/discworld-a-tv-rom-wyrd-sisters-tape-2522/ and https://mymistresseyes.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/the-weird-sisters/ and https://trakt.tv/shows/wyrd-sisters and https://www.denofgeek.com/books/the-animated-discworld-adaptations-you-may-have-forgotten/ and imdb.com
Screenshots from Cosgrove Hall’s adaptation of Soul Music via imdb.com
Screenshots from Sky TV’s adaptations of Hogfather, The Colour of Magic/The Light Fantastic and Going Postal via imdb.com and https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Unseen_University
Full cover of the Josh Kirby paperback via https://www.reddit.com/r/CoolSciFiCovers/comments/xgtmnw/wyrd_sisters_terry_pratchett_corgi_198996/
The Discworld Reading Order Guide: Krzysztof Kietzman, Jakov Olekstein, Diana Nock and others, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Men At Arms front cover via https://radiomorpork.wordpress.com/2017/09/20/men-at-arms-affirmative-action-heroes/
Equal Rites book cover via https://www.reddit.com/r/CoolSciFiCovers/comments/xakyeo/equal_rites_terry_pratchett_gollancz_1987_cover/
Front cover of Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch via https://www.discworldemporium.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tiffany-achings-guide-to-being-a-witch-rhianna-pratchett-kidby-gabrielle-kent-cover-bg.jpg
Pyramids, Moving Pictures, Eric, Witches Abroad, Guards! Guards! and Night Watch front covers via https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2015/03/terry-pratchett-cover-gallery.html
Macbeth’s three witches: Cavendish Morton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ivar Nilsson as the Fool in King Lear: National Collections of Music, Theatre and Dance, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jane Ellen Harrison: https://persons-info.com/persons/KHARRISON_Dzhein_Ellen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
J G Frazer: Contemporary photograph, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Aleister Crowley, 1929: https://www.pinterest.fr/pin/670614200742066627/, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves, 1929: Datenbank Tripota in der Wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek der Stadt Trier/Stadtarchiv, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hecate: Vatican Museums, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Дата на публикация: 12 юни, 2025
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