Death pops up in the first few books as a classic Grim Reaper, a skeleton with cloak and scythe, but takes centre stage in Mort, the first unarguably great Discworld novel. PERHAPS THE GREATEST - that is, perhaps the greatest character in all Discworld, in a personal as well as an eschatological sense. Here are 10 of the finest: Death (and the Death of Rats, and Susan) They have ensured that the writer, whose books sold over 85 million copies world-wide, will be remembered for many a generation of fantasy readers. Everyone will have their own favourite characters from the hundreds of humans, vampires, trolls and golems who stalk the plains and cities of Pratchett’s disturbingly familiar fantasy world. In a distant and secondhand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly…” Terry Pratchett began his Discworld sequence with The Colour of Magic in 1983 it's extraordinary that a series which began as a mickey-taking parody of medieval-fantasy cliché blossomed, over 40 books, into British fiction’s most brilliant satire on contemporary life.
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