What is the book The Color of Magic about?

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What is the book The Color of Magic about?

The Colour of Magic is a collection of four stories set on Discworld, a flat planet that is carried by four huge elephants that stand on the back of the giant turtle Great A’Tuin. The stories pivot on the hapless failed wizard Rincewind.

What is the theme of the color of magic?

The Color of Magic uses the theme of exploration to setup a broad view of the Discworld, while later novels explore specific locations in greater detail, so that exploration remains a theme throughout the series.

How does the color of magic end?

The novel ends with Rincewind floating through space. He takes in the Great A’Tuin, the Disc moon, the stars, and the deep blackness of space, and the novel ends with these lines: The whole of Creation was waiting for Rincewind to drop in. He did so.

Is the Colour of magic a children’s book?

The Colour of Magic is a 1983 fantasy comedy novel by Terry Pratchett, and is the first book of the Discworld series. The first printing of the British edition consisted of only 506 copies….The Colour of Magic.

First edition
Author Terry Pratchett
Genre Fantasy
Publisher Colin Smythe
Publication date 24 November 1983

What comes after the color of magic?

The Light Fantastic
The Colour of Magic is a 1983 comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, and is the first book of the Discworld series….Obi-Wan Finale – The Loop.

The Colour of Magic
Attribution
Preceded by None
Followed by The Light Fantastic

How is Susan related to death?

Susan Sto Helit (also spelled Sto-Helit), once referred to as Susan Death, is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series of fantasy novels. She is the adoptive granddaughter of Death, the Disc’s Grim Reaper, and has a number of his abilities.

What is Stygian blue?

Stygian colors: these are simultaneously dark and impossibly saturated. For example, to see “stygian blue”: staring at bright yellow causes a dark blue afterimage, then on looking at black, the blue is seen as blue against the black, also as dark as the black.

Does the color of magic have a sequel?

The Colour of Magic is a 1983 fantasy comedy novel by Terry Pratchett, and is the first book of the Discworld series. The first printing of the British edition consisted of only 506 copies….The Colour of Magic.

First edition
Author Terry Pratchett
ISBN 0-86140-324-X
Followed by The Light Fantastic

Where is twoflower from?

Twoflower grew up in the seaport of Bes Pelargic in the Agatean Empire. As a child, he read The Octarine Fairy Book, and gained a love of dragons despite the fact that his sister told him they did not exist.

What happens at the end of the Colour of magic?

Who married Mort?

Ysabell
Mort

Mortimer, Duke of Sto Helit
Mort by Kit Cox
Children Susan (daughter)
Marital Status Married to Ysabell
Appearances

Is Mort in any other Discworld books?

Mort is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett. Published in 1987, it is the fourth Discworld novel and the first to focus on the character Death, who only appeared as a side character in the previous novels….Mort.

First edition
Author Terry Pratchett
Series Discworld 4th novel – 1st Death story

What is hyperbolic green?

Self-Luminous Colors: Colors that appear to glow although no light is emitted. An example is self-luminous red. Hyperbolic Colors: Colors that appear more than completely saturated. Examples include hyperbolic orange or the green afterimage produced by staring at pure magenta and then looking at green leaves.

Why is purple impossible?

While violets are spectral colors, meaning there is a single wavelength of light for various hues of “violet”, “purple” is actually a combination of blue and red.

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