Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between February 17, 2022 and August 24, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “[with apologies to Terry Pratchett and TVTropes ]”; “Terry Pratchett’s Discworld treats the fantasy universe”; “does not like Terry Pratchett novels”. It most often appears alongside Agnostic Democrat, Akhenaten, America.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: February 17, 2022
- Last seen: August 24, 2023
Appears In
- The Gods Only Have Power Because We Believe In Them
- The Psychology Of Fantasy
- Highlights From The Comments On Dating Preferences
Related Pages
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- Agnostic Democrat (1 shared issues)
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- Akhenaten (1 shared issues)
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- America (1 shared issues)
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- Ancient Progenitor Civilization (1 shared issues)
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- Aragorn (1 shared issues)
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- Aristides (1 shared issues)
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- Arya Stark (1 shared issues)
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- Autantonym (1 shared issues)
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- Banewreaker (1 shared issues)
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- blog (1 shared issues)
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- Brin (1 shared issues)
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- Brin Ohmsford (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
[with apologies to Terry Pratchett and TVTropes]
Inline links: Terry Pratchett, TVTropes
The fantasy universe is so familiar that subverting it has become nearly as big a business as playing it straight. Diana Wynne Jones’ Dark Lord of Derkholm, Jacqueline Carey’s Banewreaker, Order Of The Stick. There are a million jokes along the lines of “what if the Dark Lord’s henchmen unionized?” or “what if there were performance reviews at the Adventurers’ Guild”? Terry Pratchett’s Discworld treats the fantasy universe as a given, something everyone will obviously understand, and then uses it as a foil in order to investigate everything else.
For what it's worth, my marriage is a statistical anomaly. I'm an atheist liberal Democrat with an undergraduate engineering degree, and my wife talks to ghosts, voted for Trump, hasn't finished community college, and, most astoundingly of all, does read books but does not like Terry Pratchett novels.