Discworldian
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Discworld + -ian, from disc + world.
Adjective[edit]
Discworldian (comparative more Discworldian, superlative most Discworldian)
- Pertaining to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld fantasy novels or their setting.
- 1992 January 31, Edward Wladyslaw Jajko, “Small, Round, Green Buzzing things and DISCWORLD opinions (on the fly! <pun)”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet):
- Maybe we could work up a DISCWORLDian test or something to show how much of our reality perception has leaked out...
- 2004 February, Michelle West, “Musing on Books”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, page 38, column 2:
- I am one of the few readers for whom Small Gods did not work, because I felt the lack of things Discworldian—in particular Death—to be almost too heavy-handed.
- 2014 July 8, Henry Dowling, “Terry Pratchett's Discworld: 9 Steps To Create The Perfect Game”, in WhatCulture[1], archived from the original on 20 April 2016:
- WhatCulture put the idea to revered gaming industry personality Rhianna Pratchett - Tomb Raider reboot writer, unofficial custodian of all things Discworldian, and of course Terry's daughter.
- 2016, Gordon White, Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits[2], Scarlet Imprint | Bibliothèque Rouge, →ISBN:
- The Hawass regime was a time of ‘multiple Egyptologies,’ with tightly controlled paid access made available to various private organisations combined with a simultaneous doubling-down on an ‘official narrative’ that, as we shall see, is positively Discworldian in its absurdity.
- 2016, Daniel Miori, “Cocking a Snook at Death and Getting Away with It: Does the Personification of Death Make It Less Scary?”, in Nicolas Michaud, editor, Discworld and Philosophy: Reality Is Not What It Seems (Popular Culture and Philosophy), Open Court Publishing Company, →ISBN:
- Not in the usual Discworldian sense, where those souls are liable to pop out just about anywhere.
- 2017, Paul Kidby, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Imaginarium, Gollancz, →ISBN:
- The Discworldian Oxbridge is architecturally based on the dreaming spires of our great university cities, with the exception of the Tower of Art which is described by Terry as having a “gnarled appearance, like a tree that has seen too many thunderstorms.”
- 2018, Alice Nuttall, “Be a Witch, Be a Woman: Gendered Characterisation of Terry Pratchett’s Witches”, in Marion Rana, editor, Terry Pratchett’s Narrative Worlds: From Giant Turtles to Small Gods (Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, part I (Populating Discworld and Beyond: Characters, Criticism and Social Commentary), page 27:
- In the Discworldian tradition of playing with stereotypes, Tiffany’s girlhood and womanhood is centred and presented as powerful; […]