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The five funny and fabulous Tiffany Aching adventures are:.

Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad.Īs the fairy horde prepares for invasion, Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her.

This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power.

The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. The Truth, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Night Watch, The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Going Postal all represent new departures and new ideas for the Discworld.Fantasy grandmaster Sir Terry Pratchett's final Discworld novel, and the fifth to feature the witch Tiffany Aching.ĭeep in the Chalk, something is stirring. For me The Truth represents the start of the second golden age for Discworld books, in place of the repetition of Soul Music or Feet of Clay you get some real innovation.

Journalism is ripe for satire and this does that brilliantly too. So a book about the development of free press just adds to this milieu of early modern city life.

Vetinari is a despot, but he’s not despotic (apart from towards mimes) and he’s inclusive, elites in the city have an interest in it working via the guilds, crime is organised, and Drawfs, Trolls, Werewolfs and the rest can all make a home (and money) in Ankh-Morpork. I’m a big New Institutional Economics fan, for all its faults, and Vetinari’s rule meets lots of the conditions which should support economic development. The Truth is where you see modernity start to slipinto the Discworld. Perhaps this was never intentional, but from Guards! Guards! something like The Truth (not to mention Raising Steam) was inevitable.