Discworld

On the data. Forty-one novels, and they are not one sequence. Six threads run in parallel across the same world, each with its own cast, and a reader who starts at The Colour of Magic meets Pratchett before he had worked out what the Disc was for. The estate publishes reading-order charts at terrypratchettbooks.com, one by publication date and one by character thread, and the character chart is what this page is built on. The Discworld Emporium publishes a similar chart with seven threads rather than six. Where they differ the site makes a call and says so: Moving Pictures is filed under the Industrial Revolution thread, as the Emporium files it, rather than with the wizards; Unseen Academicals is kept with Rincewind and the wizards although several charts give the wizards a thread of their own; Monstrous Regiment is kept as a standalone although some charts group it with the Industrial Revolution books. Pyramids, Small Gods, The Amazing Maurice and Monstrous Regiment attach to no thread at all. The Last Hero and Eric are short illustrated books rather than full novels, and are counted among the forty-one because the estate counts them. On story order: the Disc has no published calendar. Pratchett let its present run forward roughly in step with his own writing, so characters age, Ankh-Morpork gets a post office and then a bank and then a railway, and the practical result is that story order and publication order are close to the same thing for the books that sit in a thread. Within a thread that ordering is real. Across threads it is approximate, and it is not a reading order: the threads run beside each other rather than one after another, which is the whole point of this page. The four standalones carry no story position, and neither does The Watch. Small Gods is set about a hundred years before the rest, and most of Night Watch takes place about thirty years before its own opening, so both are flagged rather than placed. Screen. Two animated series were made by Cosgrove Hall for Channel 4 in 1997, Wyrd Sisters in six parts and Soul Music in seven. Sky made three two-part films directed by Vadim Jean, Hogfather in 2006, The Colour of Magic in 2008 and Going Postal in 2010; the 2008 one adapts two novels at once. Each is listed as one title with a two-episode season so both halves can be ticked. The Amazing Maurice is an animated feature released in the United Kingdom in December 2022 and in the United States in February 2023; the site dates it 2022. And then there is The Watch, which needs saying plainly rather than softly: it is not an adaptation of the City Watch novels in any useful sense. It keeps a handful of names and discards the characters, the plots, the setting and the tone. Rhianna Pratchett, who was not involved with it for years before broadcast, said publicly that it shares no DNA with her father's Watch, and Neil Gaiman's comparison was that it is not Batman if he is now a news reporter in a yellow trenchcoat with a pet bat. It ran eight episodes on BBC America in 2021 and was not renewed. It is on this page because it exists and people look for it, not because it belongs beside the books. Narrativia announced a wider television partnership in 2020 covering the whole of Discworld, and nothing from it has a title, a broadcaster or a date, so nothing unreleased is listed here. The 2019 short film Troll Bridge, the stage adaptations, the Discworld games and the companion books such as the Science of Discworld series and the Ankh-Morpork maps are all left out. So is everything Pratchett wrote that is not Discworld, including Good Omens, the Bromeliad and the Johnny Maxwell books.

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