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The Last Hero

Discworld
by Terry Pratchett, Paul Kidby
The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett, Paul Kidby
  ★ 8.36 / 19

A Discworld Fable. Illustrated by Paul Kidby.

He's been a legend in his own lifetime.

He can remember the great days of high adventure.

He can remember when a hero didn't have to worry about fences and lawyers and civilisation.

He can remember when people didn't tell you off for killing dragons.

But he can't always remember, these days, where he put his teeth...

He's really not happy about that bit.

So now, with his ancient sword and his new walking stick and his old friends – and they're very old friends – Cohen the Barbarian is going on one final quest. It's been a good life. He's going to climb the highest mountain in the Discworld and meet his gods. He doesn't like the way they let men grow old and die.

It's time, in fact, to give something back.

The last hero in the world is going to return what the first hero stole. With a vengeance. That'll mean the end of the world, if no one stops him in time.

Someone is going to try. So who knows who the last hero really is?

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Updated September 7, 2010
Category: Fantasy
Release date: October 2001
Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE (1948–2015) was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of about 40 volumes. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971, and since his first Discworld novel (The Colour of Magic) was published in 1983, he wrote two books a year on average. His 2011 Discworld novel Snuff was at the time of its release the third-fastest-selling hardback adult-audience novel since records began in the UK, selling 55,000 copies in the first three days.

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Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s, and has sold more than 85 million books worldwide in 37 languages. He is currently the second most-read writer in the UK, and seventh most-read non-US author in the US.

Pratchett was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998 and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. In 2001 he won the annual Carnegie Medal for The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, the first Discworld book marketed for children He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2010.

In December 2007, Pratchett announced that he was suffering from early-onset Alzheimer's disease. He later made a substantial public donation to the Alzheimer's Research Trust, and filmed a television programme chronicling his experiences with the disease for the BBC. Pratchett died on 12 March 2015, aged 66.

Photo: Terry Pratchett at Worldcon 2005 in Glasgow. Picture by Szymon Sokół. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Discworld

The Discworld series is a continuous history of a world not totally unlike our own, except that it is a flat disc carried on the backs of four elephants astride a giant turtle floating through space, and that it is peopled by, among others, wizards, dwarves, soldiers, thieves, beggars, vampires and witches. Within the history of Discworld, there are many individual stories which can be enjoyed in any order. But reading them in the sequence in which they were written can increase your enjoyment through the accumulation of all the fine detail that contributes to the teeming imaginative complexity of this brilliantly conceived world.

Discworld consists of thirty-four primary works, and includes one additional book that complement the series but is not considered mandatory reads. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

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The Colour of Magic (Discworld #1)
  ★ 7.50 / 271
The Light Fantastic (Discworld #2)
  ★ 7.82 / 199
Equal Rites (Discworld #3)
  ★ 7.76 / 200
Mort (Discworld #4)
  ★ 8.18 / 241
Sourcery (Discworld #5)
  ★ 7.54 / 178
Wyrd Sisters (Discworld #6)
  ★ 7.84 / 207
Pyramids (Discworld #7)
  ★ 7.78 / 157
Guards! Guards! (Discworld #8)
  ★ 8.08 / 178
Eric (Discworld #9)
  ★ 7.00 / 172
Moving Pictures (Discworld #10)
  ★ 7.50 / 170
Reaper Man (Discworld #11)
  ★ 8.58 / 230
Witches Abroad (Discworld #12)
  ★ 8.14 / 187
Small Gods (Discworld #13)
  ★ 8.10 / 162
Lords and Ladies (Discworld #14)
  ★ 8.16 / 149
Men at Arms (Discworld #15)
  ★ 8.50 / 149
Soul Music (Discworld #16)
  ★ 8.10 / 162
Interesting Times (Discworld #17)
  ★ 7.84 / 138
Maskerade (Discworld #18)
  ★ 8.36 / 138
Feet of Clay (Discworld #19)
  ★ 8.60 / 130
Hogfather (Discworld #20)
  ★ 8.54 / 182
Jingo (Discworld #21)
  ★ 8.30 / 113
The Last Continent (Discworld #22)
  ★ 7.64 / 96
Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23)
  ★ 8.22 / 108
The Fifth Elephant (Discworld #24)
  ★ 8.40 / 96
The Truth (Discworld #25)
  ★ 8.14 / 87
Thief of Time (Discworld #26)
  ★ 8.38 / 89
Night Watch (Discworld #27)
  ★ 8.76 / 104
Monstrous Regiment (Discworld #28)
  ★ 8.34 / 73
Going Postal (Discworld #29)
  ★ 8.74 / 86
Thud! (Discworld #30)
  ★ 8.14 / 64
Making Money (Discworld #31)
  ★ 8.28 / 60
Unseen Academicals (Discworld #32)
  ★ 8.02 / 70
Snuff (Discworld #33)
  ★ 8.08 / 41
Raising Steam (Discworld #34)
  ★ 7.62 / 29
The Last Hero
  ★ 8.36 / 19


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