Terry Pratchett's writing celebrates the possibilities opened up by
inventiveness and imagination. It constructs an ethical stance that
values informed and self-aware choices, knowledge of the world in
which one makes those choices, the importance of play and humor in
crafting a compassionate worldview, and acts of continuous
self-examination and creation. This collection of essays uses
inventiveness and creation as a thematic core to combine normally
disparate themes, such as science fiction studies, the effect of
collaborative writing and shared authorship, steampunk aesthetics,
productive modes of "ownership," intertextuality, neomedievalism
and colonialism, adaptations into other media, linguistics and
rhetorics, and coming of age as an act of free will. In all
Pratchett's constructed worlds and narratives--from Discworld, to
the science-fictional flat planet of Strata, from a parody of Conan
the Barbarian's Cimmeria to the comedically apocalyptic Good
Omens--questions of identity, community, and the relations between
self and other are constantly examined, debated, and reshaped.
Pratchett's worlds thus become ethical worlds: fantasies in which
language always matters, stories resonate with the past and the
future, and choices emphasize the importance of compassion and
creation.
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