The magic hat (original title: Sourcery ) is a novel by Terry Pratchett . It is the fifth Discworld novel and introduces the reader to the concept of creative magic as the source of all magic. The protagonist is the underage coin. The magic hat was released in 1988. The German edition was published by Heyne Verlag in 1990 ( ISBN 3-453-04300-6 ).
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As the eighth son of an eighth son, Alleswiss, the red one, is a powerful magician. After he was banished from the Invisible University, he married and had sons. The first seven also became powerful magicians, but the eighth, coin , is a “creative magus” (in the original “ sourcerer ”). While ordinary wizards use existing magic, a creative magus is a source of magic.
On the day of his death, all-white flees into his wand, which he bequeaths coin. So he plans to control his son in order to get revenge on the Invisible University. Spurred on by his father, the boy usurps the post of arch-chancellor, turns the patrician into a lizard and wants to subjugate the world to magic. The Arch Chancellor's hat, a millennia-old artifact charged with magic and personality, defies this plan. A magical war breaks out. The ice giants are marching again. The end of the Discworld seems near. Armed only with a brick-weighted sock, Rincewind finally intervenes in the conflict and manages to get Coin to rethink.
The Scholars of the Disc World (1999, German 2004) • The Philosophers of the Round World. More from the scholars of the Discworld (2002, German 2004) • Darwin and the Gods of the Discworld (2005, German 2006) • The Last Judgment. The Science of Discworld 4 (2013, German 2013)
Other books
The Disc World from A – Z (with Stephen Briggs ; 1994, German 1996) • The Disc World Album (1996, German 2001) • GURPS Disc World (with Phil Masters ; 1998, German 1999) • Nanny Oggs Cookbook (1999, German 2001) . 2001) • GURPS Discworld Also (with Phil Masters ; 2001) • The Art of Discworld (2004, German 2006) • Where's my Cow (2005) • Wit and Wisdom of Discworld (2007, German 2010) • Myths and legends the Discworld (with Jacqueline Simpson ; 2008, German 2009) • The World of Poo (2012) • Fools, Thieves and Vampires - The best of ten years of Discworld calendars (with Stephen Briggs ; 2012, German 2012)
Discworld maps
The Streets of Ankh-Morpork - A Discworld Map (1993; Ger. 1996) • The Discworld Mapp (1995) • A Tourist Guide to Lancre - A Discworld Mapp (1998) • Death's Domain - A Discworld Mapp (1999) • More complete and indispensable Ankh-Morpork city guide (2012, German 2013) • Mrs. Bradshaw's most useful handbook for all routes of the Hygienic Railway Ankh-Morpork and Sto Plain (2014, German 2015)
The whole madness (2004, German 2007) • Big words (2012, German 2018) • Twisted dragon (2014, German 2015) • The vacuum-sucking fright screw (2016, German 2018)
