A writer of brilliant imagination favorably compared to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, and Douglas Adams, Sir Terry Pratchett created a complex, satirical universe with its own set of cultures and rules, populated with wizards, witches, academics, fairies, policemen, and other creatures both fantastical and remarkably ordinary (including Death himself). Welcome to the Discworld . . . a parallel time and place that sounds and smells very much like our own, but looks completely differentbecause its a flat world sitting on the backs of four elephants who hurtle through space balanced on a giant turtle.

In this, the maiden voyage through Terry Pratchetts ingeniously twisted alternate dimension, the well-meaning but spectacularly inept wizard Rincewind encounters something previously unknown in the Discworld: a tourist!

Twoflower has arrived to take in the sights. Unfortunately, hes cast his lot with a most inappropriate tour guidea decision that could result in his becoming not only Discworlds first visitor . . . but quite possibly, its last. And, of course, hes brought Luggage along, a companion with feetand a mindof its own. And teeth. . . .

The Discworld novels can be read in any order, but the other books in the Wizards collection include: