The Colour of Magic - Book Review

“In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part…
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Great A’Tuin the Turtles comes, swimming slowly through the interstellar gulf, hydrogen frost on his ponderous limbs, his huge and ancient shell pocked with meteor craters. Through sea-sized eyes that are crusted with rheum and asteroid dust, He stares fixedly at the Destination.”

The Colour of Magic, by Terry Pratchett, which is a fantasy book, is the first novel in his phenomenally successful Discworld Series. This series is made up of 27 books based on a world supported on the back of a giant turtle. The Colour of Magic is made up of four small novels, which is mainly about the magical aspects of this world, with the different types of magic known to Rincewind the (failed) Wizard and Twoflower, the universe’s first tourist.

Terry Pratchett is known for his fantasy novels, some of them being truckers, diggers and wings from ...