The Colour of Magic
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| Terry Pratchett The Discworld series 1st novel – 1st Rincewind story  | |
| Outline | |
| Characters: | Rincewind Twoflower The Luggage |
| Locations: | Ankh-Morpork Krull |
| Motifs: | Fantasy clichés, Role-playing games |
| Publication details | |
| Year of release: | 1983 |
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| Hardback ISBN: | |
| Paperback ISBN: | ISBN 0552124753 |
| Other details | |
| Awards: | |
| Notes: | 93rd in the Big Read |
The Colour of Magic is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the first of the Discworld series. It was published in 1983. It is also one of only five Discworld novels to be divided into chapters, the others being the 2004 book Going Postal, and the three young adult novels. Each chapter is in fact a separate short story featuring the same characters. The idea of The Colour of Magic - that all that happens is due to the god's gambling - is somewhat similar to traditional role-playing games, in that the roll of the dice determines what happens to Rincewind and the other heroes.
The main character is the incompetent and cynical wizard Rincewind, who involuntarily finds himself as a guide to the naive tourist Twoflower. After they are forced to flee from the city of Ankh-Morpork, their journey leads them to the country of Krull, perched on the very edge of the Discworld.
Their story is continued in the succeeding Discworld novel, The Light Fantastic.
The Colour of Magic translations
- Цветът на магията (Bulgarian)
- Barva Kouzel (Czech)
- Magiens Farve (Danish)
- De Kleur van Toverij (Dutch)
- Võlukunsti Värv (Estonian)
- Magian Väri (Finnish)
- La Huitième Couleur (French)
- Die Farben der Magie (German)
- Το χρωμα της μαγειας (To chroma tis mageias) (Greek)
- A Mágia Színe (Hungarian)
- Il Colore della Magia (Italian)
- Magiens farge (Norwegian)
- Kolor magii (Polish)
- A Cor da Magia (Portuguese)
- A Cor da Magia (Portuguese - Brazil)
- Цвет волшебства (Russian)
- Boja Magije (Serbian/Yugoslav)
- El Color de la Magia (Spanish)
- Magins färg (Swedish)
- Büyünün Rengi (Turkish)
See also
- The plot was adapted for a computer game.
External links
- Annotations for The Colour of Magic (http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-colour-of-magic.html)
- Quotes from The Colour of Magic (http://www.lspace.org/books/pqf/the-colour-of-magic.html)
- Synopsis of The Colour of Magic (http://www.lspace.org/books/synopses/the-colour-of-magic.html)
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