Sourcery
- Author: Terry Pratchett
- Publisher: Corgi
- Classification: Discworld
Wizards are not supposed to have sex. The old rumpy pumpy interferes with the bearded ones ability to channel magic don’t cha know.
Unfortunately that’s not the real reason. The real reason is sourcery. When wizards get up to the old count the legs and divide by two, children are an inevitable outcome. The eighth son will be a wizard, and that’s fine, what’s not is if he then also has eight sons.
The eighth son of an eighth son is a wizard squared – a source of magic, one could say a Sourcerer. I guess you can see where this is going? Unseen University wont know what’s hit it…
Quit possibly, neither will Rincewind. The poor bugger is about to, yet again, get caught up in an adventure where he’ll end up saving the world. Reluctantly of course.
For Rincewind it all starts off with an attractive girl (as it so often does), and a hat that wants to be stolen (as it so often doesn’t). There’s likely to be magic carpets, a genei, a trainee barbarian and God alone knows what else. But it could include the end of the world…
It was the first time it had stolen something that not only asked it to, in a low but authoritative voice, but gave precise and unarguable instructions
Sourcery is the fifth Discworld novel and it’s no let down. Fans of Pratchett are definitely going to enjoy it, and of course so will anyone who likes the Discworld’s most inept ‘Wizzard’.
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This is his best book!