title: The Color of Magic: A Discworld Novel
author:  Terry Pratchett 
description: Ingenious, brilliant, and hilarious. (Washington Post)
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  # Discworld 01 - The Colour of Magic
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Discworld 01 - The Colour of Magic
  
  
  By Pratchett, Terry
  
  
  Prologue
  
  
  In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was
  never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part…
  
  
  See…
  
  
  Great A’Tuin the turtle comes, swimming slowly through the interstellar gulf,
  hydrogen frost on his ponderous limbs, his huge and ancient shell pocked with
  meteor craters. Through sea-sized eyes that are crusted with rheum and
  asteroid dust He stares fixedly at the Destination.
  
  
  In a brain bigger than a city, with geological slowness, He thinks only of the
  Weight.
  
  
  Most of the weight is of course accounted for by Berilia, Tubul, Great T’Phon
  and Jerakeen, the four giant elephants upon whose broad and startanned
  shoulders the disc of the World rests, garlanded by the long waterfall at its
  vast circumference and domed by the baby-blue vault of Heaven.
  
  
  Astropsychology has been, as yet, unable to establish what they think about.