The Colour of Magic (which Pratchett described as “an attempt to do for the classical fantasy universe what Blazing Saddles did for Westerns”) kicked the series off in 1983 and before his death in 2015 he published a further 40 novels a handful of short stories and even a few non-fiction books expanding on his ever growing and increasingly popular creation. His books were often comic in nature and his most popular work remains the series chronicling the Discworld, a huge flat disc floating through space on the backs of four giant elephants which, in turns, stand on the shell of a god-like star turtle Great A’Tuin. Indeed, in the 1990s, Pratchett was the best-selling British writer of any genre, selling over 85 million books in 37 languages. Rowling whose work is clearly indebted to his vast body of work. For many years, Terry Pratchett was Britain’s foremost writer of fantasy fiction, until the rise of J.K.
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