Discworldian

English Etymology From en w:Discworld ian, from en disc + en world. Adjective Pertaining to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld fantasy novels or their setting. en Edward Wladyslaw Jajko Small, Round, Green Buzzing things and DISCWORLD opinions (on the fly! <pun) alt.fan.pratchett 31 January 1992 Maybe we could work up a DISCWORLDian test or something to show how much of our reality perception has leaked out... en Interzone 189 May/June 2003 65 https://archive.org/details/interzone-189-2003-05-06-bogof-39/page/65/mode/1up 1–2 Pratchett, Terry, and Stephen Briggs. The New Discworld Companion. “The Fully Revised and Updated Reference Book to all things Discworldian.” en Michelle West Musing on Books w:The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction February 2004 38 https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v106n02_2004-02_N625_DaisyChainsaw/page/n37/mode/1up 2 I am one of the few readers for whom Small Gods did not work, because I felt the lack of things Discworldian—in particular Death—to be almost too heavy-handed. en Henry Dowling Terry Pratchett's Discworld: 9 Steps To Create The Perfect Game w:WhatCulture https://whatculture.com/gaming/terry-pratchetts-discworld-9-steps-create-perfect-game 8 July 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20160420035517/https://whatculture.com/gaming/terry-pratchetts-discworld-9-steps-create-perfect-game 20 April 2016 WhatCulture put the idea to revered gaming industry personality Rhianna Pratchett - Tomb Raider reboot writer, unofficial custodian of all things Discworldian, and of course Terry's daughter. en Gordon White Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits https://archive.org/details/andrieh-vitimus-hands-on-chaos-magic-reality-manipulation-through-the-ovayki-cur/Gordon%20White%20-%20Star.Ships--A%20Prehistory%20of%20the%20Spirits/page/n205/mode/1up Scarlet Imprint Bibliothèque Rouge 2016 978-0-9931200-8-4 The Hawass regime was a time of ‘multiple Egyptologies,’ with tightly controlled paid access made available to various private organisations combined with a simultaneous doubling-down on an ‘official narrative’ that, as we shall see, is positively Discworldian in its absurdity. en Daniel Miori Cocking a Snook at Death and Getting Away with It: Does the Personification of Death Make It Less Scary? Nicolas Michaud Discworld and Philosophy: Reality Is Not What It Seems Popular Culture and Philosophy w:Open Court Publishing Company 2016 978-0-8126-9923-4 Not in the usual Discworldian sense, where those souls are liable to pop out just about anywhere. en w:Paul Kidby Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Imaginarium Gollancz 2017 978 1 4732 2338 7 The Discworldian Oxbridge is architecturally based on the dreaming spires of our great university cities, with the exception of the Tower of Art which is described by Terry as having a “gnarled appearance, like a tree that has seen too many thunderstorms.” en Alice Nuttall Be a Witch, Be a Woman: Gendered Characterisation of Terry Pratchett’s Witches Marion Rana Terry Pratchett’s Narrative Worlds: From Giant Turtles to Small Gods Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature w:Palgrave Macmillan 2018 part I (Populating Discworld and Beyond: Characters, Criticism and Social Commentary) 27 978-3-319-67297-7 In the Discworldian tradition of playing with stereotypes, Tiffany’s girlhood and womanhood is centred and presented as powerful; Related terms en Discworlder en terms derived from toponyms