![]() ![]() (Discworldites?)Įxcept the innovation that was introduced in Pratchett’s 10 th Discworld book, Moving Pictures, published in 1990.Īs the title suggests, the plot involves the discovery - or was it the re-discovery? - of motion pictures which, in the novel, are called the clicks (for the click-click-click sound the picture-thrower makes). The introduction of a new contraption often resulted in a crisis of some sort, but, by and large, when the novel was finished, the contraption with all its warts had become part of life for the Discworldians. In the books he did write about innovations in Discworld, Pratchett brought his usual skeptical eye to the great dreams and pitfalls of such changes to the everyday world. ![]() Alas, he didn’t get the chance, cut down as he was at age 66 in 2015 by Alzheimer’s disease. My suspicion is that, in some vague way, Pratchett had plans for bringing still more innovations to Discworld, as, maybe, the telephone, computers and supermarkets. These included a form of telegraph, the clacks ( The Fifth Element, 1999), the news media ( The Truth, 2000), a postal system ( Going Postal, 2004), coinage ( Making Money, 2007) and railroads ( Raising Steam, 2013). ![]() ![]() As Terry Pratchett created his series of 41 Discworld novels, he took his world from a fairly medieval place into modernity through his introduction of a variety of civilization’s great innovative technologies. ![]()
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