title: The Color of Magic: A Discworld Novel
author:  Terry Pratchett 
description: Ingenious, brilliant, and hilarious. (Washington Post)
zlib_text: THE COLOR OF MAGIC
  
  A Discworld ® Novel
  
  
  
  
  
  Terry Pratchett
  
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  Contents
  
  1\. THE COLOR OF MAGIC
  
  2\. THE SENDING OF EIGHT
  
  3\. THE LURE OF THE WYRM
  
  4\. CLOSE OF THE EDGE
  
    
  
  ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  
  PRAISE
  
  OTHER BOOKS BY TERRY PRATCHETT
  
  COPYRIGHT
  
  ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
  
  
  
  
  
  Foreword
  
  IF I HAD A PENNY for every time someone asked me where I got the idea of the
  Discworld, I’d have—hang on a moment—£4.67.
  
  Anyway, the answer is that it was lying around and didn’t look as though it
  belonged to anyone.
  
  The world rides through space on the back of a turtle. It’s one of the great
  ancient myths, found wherever men and turtles were gathered together; the four
  elephants were an Indo-European sophistication. The idea has been lying in the
  lumber rooms of legend for centuries. All I had to do was grab it and run away
  before the alarms went off.
  
  Since this is a reprint by popular demand—gosh—of the first book in a series
  that will, eventually, contain at least ten, there’