Unseen Academicals is the seventh book in the Wizards series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order. 'No one mixes the fantastical and mundane to better comic effect ' Daily Mail Or, to borrow another phrase, it's about life, the Universe and everything' The Times 'This isn't just football, it's Discworld football. Īnd the thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football. To do this, they recruit an unlikely group of players: Trev, a street urchin with a talent for kicking a tin can Glenda, the night chef who makes a mean pie Juliet, the kitchen hand turned world's greatest fashion model and the mysterious Mr Nutt, who has something powerful, and dark, locked away inside him. so they're in the mood for trying everything else. And now the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match without using magic. 'We play and are played and the best we can hope for is to do it with style.'įootball has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. Delivering the trademark insight and humor readers the world over have come.
He was was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours.Print Unseen Academicals - (Discworld 37, Rincewind 8) Discworld lives on in Unseen Academicals, the latest novel from Terry Pratchett. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels. Terry Pratchett was an English humorist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. Oh, and on top of that, they must somehow win a football match without using magic.Īnd the thing about football-the most important thing about football-is that it is never just about football. To begin with, they have to figure out just what it is that makes this sport of foot-the-ball so popular with Ankh-Morporkians of all ages and social strata. So when Lord Vetinari, the city's benevolent tyrant, strongly suggests to Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully that the university put forth a football team composed of faculty, students, and staff-or lose the funding that pays for their nine daily meals-the more-than-usually-at-sea UU wizards find themselves in a quandary. Find books like Unseen Academicals (Discworld, 37 Rincewind, 8) from the worlds largest community of readers. The wizards at Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University are renowned for many things-wisdom, magic, their love of teatime-but athletics is most assuredly not on the list.
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