The colors of magic

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The Colors of Magic (English title: The Color of Magic ) is a novel by Terry Pratchett . It is the first Discworld novel and tells the story of Rincewind the Wizard. It was released in 1983 . The action takes place in Ankh-Morpork and Krull.

The novel works on various topics, including: fantasy clichés , role-playing games , space travel , tourism and insurance .

According to Pratchett, he tried colors of magic in the fantasy genre , which Mel Brooks managed to do for the western with The Wild West .

action

The Color of Magic is about the encounter of the magical minus gifted wizard Rincewind with Two Blum , the first tourists of the Discworld. The patrician orders Rincewind to serve the stranger from the counterbalance continent as a guide and translator. Reluctantly, but encouraged by the prospect of a princely fee, he accepts the assignment. Not surprisingly, after Zwelum, who is a risk analyst for an insurance company, familiarized Ankh-Morpork with the innovative idea of ​​the fire insurance policy, the city burned down completely.

This begins the common, dangerous journey through the rural regions of the Discworld. You get into countless dicey situations, but the new kind of tourist perspective that Zwelum displays turns everything into a kind of picturesque experience. After Hrun have committed, the barbarians as a bodyguard, they get to multiple stops, including at the dangerous dragon riders of Wyrmbergs , according to Krull . The book ends with Twoflower being catapulted over the edge of the Discworld aboard the so-called Mighty Traveler and Rincewind finally falling over the edge.

Others

  • The colors of magic was published in 1985 in a translation by Dagmar Hartmann under the title The colors of fantasy ( ISBN 3-442-23869-2 ).
  • Also available as a Discworld comic and as an unabridged audio book, speaker: Volker Niederfahrenhorst, Random House Audio, 2013, ISBN 978-3837120691 .
  • Was filmed together with The Light of Fantasy for SkyOne as a two-parter under the title The Color of Magic and aired on March 23 and 24, 2008. In Germany, both parts have been available together on DVD since October 9, 2008 and were shown on German television for the first time on July 11, 2009 by RTL.

Web links

The Color of Magic in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)