Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) was an English author best known for the Discworld series, a sequence of forty-one comic fantasy novels set on a flat world carried through space on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle. Across four decades, the Discworld grew from a parody of sword-and-sorcery fantasy into one of the most sustained works of social satire in English literature, examining politics, religion, science, gender, race, capitalism, and the nature of stories themselves. Pra...
A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices
A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices
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The wizards of Unseen University face a threat unlike any they have encountered before: a Research Assessment. A short comic piece in which Discworld's most powerful academics are required to justify their existence, their expenditure, and the practical applications of their magical research to an external inspection committee. Pratchett's satire of academic bureaucracy, delivered at the scale of a joke — with all the usual Discworld footnotes applied to the least magical moment in the history of magic. Originally published in the collection Once More* With Footnotes.
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A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish DeviceseBook, May
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