Sourcery
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| Terry Pratchett The Discworld series 5th novel – 3rd Rincewind story  | |
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| Characters: | Rincewind |
| Locations: | Ankh-Morpork Klatch |
| Motifs: | Wizards and sorcery; Apocalypse |
| Publication details | |
| Year of release: | 1988 |
| Original publisher: | Victor Gollancz |
| Hardback ISBN: | ISBN 0-575-04217-6 |
| Paperback ISBN: | ISBN 0-552-13107-5 |
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Sourcery is the fifth Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, published in 1988. The title is a pun on "sorcery": on the Discworld, a sourcerer is a special type of wizard who is a source of magic. Sourcerers are born the eighth son of an eighth son of eighth son and were the main cause of the great mage wars that left whole areas of the disc uninhabitable; this is the long standing reason of why wizards are not allowed to marry or have children. The first few pages of the novel deal with the sourcerer's father, who cheats death by making a prophecy that Death must honour or risk destroying the Discworld. The rest of the novel deals with the sourcerer's plan to have wizards rule the Discworld, and the efforts of a small group - including Rincewind the Wizard, Nijel the destroyer and Conina the Hairdresser, daughter of Cohen the Barbarian - to thwart those plans.
Terry Pratchett has said that he considers this the book where his writing style truly began to mature[citation needed].
[edit] Translations
- Магизточник (Bulgarian)
- Magický prazdroj (Czech)
- Megamagikeren (Danish)
- Betoverkind (Dutch)
- Ürgsorts (Estonian)
- Velhous verissä (Finnish)
- Sourcellerie (French)
- Der Zauberhut (German)
- Πιάστε τον μάγο (Piaste ton mago) (Greek)
- Bűbájos bajok (Hungarian)
- Magiens kilde (Norwegian)
- Czarodzicielstwo (Polish)
- Fontiçaria (Portuguese)
- O Oitavo Mago (Portuguese - Brazil)
- Copilul Minune (Romanian)
- Посох и шляпа (Russian)
- Čudotvorac (Serbian)
- Rechicero (Spanish)
- Svartkonster (Swedish)
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