Terry Pratchett wrote comic fantasy, most famously the Discworld series, whose many novels share a flat world carried through space on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle. Different books follow different parts of that setting: the City Watch novels centre on Sam Vimes and the changing city of Ankh-Morpork, the Witches books feature Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, and the Death novels turn the personification of Death into a recurring character with family and professional problems of his own. Pratchett uses fantasy conventions to make jokes about policing, newspapers, banking, religion, technology and bureaucracy without requiring every book to follow one continuous plot. His prose is quick, pun-heavy and accessible, with comic dialogue sitting beside serious social observation. Discworld belongs to comic fantasy and satirical fantasy, with Douglas Adams and Neil Gaiman offering useful points of comparison for readers who like speculative fiction driven by wit and ideas. Read more Less
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