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...
Soul Music
Soul Music
Synopsis
Death is having an existential crisis and has gone AWOL — leaving his granddaughter Susan Sto Helit to take over the job she doesn't want and isn't supposed to have. Meanwhile, a young musician from the Ramtops arrives in Ankh-Morpork and discovers Music With Rocks In — a sound that plays the people rather than the other way around, and which may be the most dangerous force the Disc has ever encountered. A novel about rock and roll, grief, identity, and the seductive power of being somebody.
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Characters
Susan Sto HelitProtagonist
Death's granddaughter — a pragmatic, no-nonsense young woman thrust into the role of Death while her grandfather is missing. Her first appearance in the series.
Imp y CelynSupporting
A young musician (later known as 'Buddy') who discovers Music With Rocks In and is consumed by it — a riff on the 27 Club mythology.
The Death of RatsSupporting
A small grim reaper who takes care of rats and appears throughout the Death sub-series as a comic sidekick.
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Edition
Soul musicUnknown, 1995
389 pages
HarperPrismLanguage: EnglishISBN: 97800610520335 editions available
