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==The Books==
The Discworld series consists primarily of two series of books: the main series and the young adult novels. The former is the series of 34 books that people will think of when hearing "Discworld", and contains the most famous stories. The young adult novels are a half-dozen books aimed at younger audiences. Then there are the various spinoffs like a pair of children's books, the illustrated version of two other books and a variety of short stories and supportive material. Most of the books are parodying a specific thing first and foremost with some general asides.

===Main series===
====The Color of Magic====
*Sub-series: Rincewind
*Focus of Satire: General Fantasy.

The debut of Rincewind. The world's first tourist, Twoflower, shows up in Ankh-Morpork. Rincewind, a failed wizard, is tasked with protecting him. This book is notable for being a parody of various tropes common in the fantasy genre like [[Vancian]] magic and parodies things like [[D&D]], Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, [[Conan the Barbarian]], [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s work and more. This book is meant to set up the world of the Disc and, as a result, feels like only half of a greater story, part two of which is...

====The Light Fantastic====
*Sub-series: Rincewind
*Focus of Satire: General Fantasy.

It's a direct sequel to the first book, the first and last time this happens. This one has less of the world-building and single chapter adventures, replacing them instead with a more singular storyline. Makes fun of the fantasy genre as a whole again; Conan the Barbarian, the maiden in distress trope, the occasional dig at [[Tolkien]] and much more. Theoretically, you COULD skip book one and go straight to this (they sum the major information points up, and this one is, marginally, better) but, regardless, the first book is still a good, fun read, as is this one.

====Equal Rites====
*Sub-series: Witches of Lancre, even if it's only Granny Weatherwax.
*Focus of Satire: Gender Politics.

The debut of Granny Weatherwax, a witch who accompanies the little girl Eskarina to Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork to learn wizardry. The problem is that both witches and wizards feel very strongly that wizards can only be boys, and that witches can only be girls.

====Mort====
*Sub-series: Death

The debut of Death as a major character. Death feels like he should take on an apprentice and picks the farm boy Mort.  This causes trouble when he tasks Mort to gather the soul of a princess while Death himself takes a vacation. Mort doesn't want her to die so he saves her, causing all sorts of trouble.

This is the book most frequently credited with being where Discworld came into its own and started to become iconic.

====Sourcery====
*Sub-series: Rincewind
*Focus of Satire: General Fantasy, some Arabian Knights stuff.

The eighth son of an eighth son is a wizard. The eighth son of a wizard however is a Sourcerer, a wizard squared. Being an entity of intense magical power the Sourcerer Coin attempts to take over the world at the behest of the spirit of his father, who inhabits the boy's magical staff.

====Wyrd Sisters====
*Sub-series: Witches of Lancre
*Focus of Satire: Shakespeare (specifically Macbeth).

The debut of the Lancre Witches. King Verence of Lancre is murdered by his cousin Leonal Felmet egged on by his power mad wife. Taking the Throne Felmet is brought into conflict with the witches, which is, as he learns, a very bad idea.

====Pyramids====
*Sub-Series: Stand-Alone/Ancient Peoples
*Focus of Satire: Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece. British boarding schools. Star Wars.

A standalone book (or part of an aborted sub-series). Prince Teppic of Djelibeybi graduates from the Guild of Assassins in Ankh-Morpork and learns that his father has passed on, making him the new king of a heavily Egyptian-inspired kingdom. He travels back home only to find the court dominated by the ancient high priest Dios.

====Guards! Guards!====
*Sub-Series: City Watch
*Focus of Satire: Police, monarchy, disposable fantasy mooks, Dragon focused fantasy and the bits of [[The Hobbit]] directly relating to Dragons.

The debut of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. Carrot Ironfoundersson is a dwarf who isn't. A human orphan, found and raised by dwarfs in the mountains, at the urging of his father Carrot goes to Ankh-Morpork to join the city's Night Watch, an esteemed and honourable institute. Or so he's told: in practice, the Dwarves have their info a few generations out of date, and by now there are only three people in the Night Watch: the alcoholic Captain Vimes, the bumbling Sergeant Colon and the petty thief Corporal Nobbs. Possessing an immense sense of duty and a matching heap of charisma, Carrot and the other watchmen get dragged into a plot involving a shadowy group summoning a dragon in an attempt to install a puppet ruler on the throne of the city.

====Eric====
*Sub-Series: Rincewind
*Focus of Satire: Faust.

The shortest of the mainline Discworld books, the titular demonologist summon what he thinks to be a demon, only to get Rincewind bound to him. Basically a bunch of loosely linked vignettes where Eric and Rincewind experience various Discworld versions of Roundworld mythology while an ambitious, and far too bureaucratic, Lord of Hell is being subtly undermined by his demonic subordinates.

====Moving Pictures====
*Sub-Series: Industrial Revolution
*Focus of Satire: Hollywood

The debut of CMOT Dibbler as a major character and lays the foundation for the Wizards, as well as Gaspaud the Wonder Dog. Alchemists in Ankh-Morpork discover how to capture moving images and project them onto a screen. An entire industry dedicated to making these moving pictures pops up in Holy Wood, a barren stretch of sun-scorched beach located not too far from the city. But this new industry is not just threatened by Dibbler's business practices...

====Reaper Man====
*Sub-Series: Death
*(Secondary) Focus of Satire: Support Groups and Exurban development.

Debut of the Auditors of Reality. The agents of the cosmic bureaucracy, the Auditors of Reality, decide that Death has become too human and get him fired. But with Death out of the way nobody dies, which floods the world with life. This turns out to be a Very Bad Thing when Ankh-Morpork is beset by a living shopping mall and a new Death comes along.

For all its quality, Reaper Man was a clumsy retcon to the workings of death.  Originally, there was only Death himself for people and animals.  Reaper Man gave him a boss in the form of Azrael, the Death of Universes (which implies the universe itself is alive, but this is never explored), though Death never had a boss or anyone over him in previous books and nothing suggested he did (He treats the gods as peers, has no contact with the Creator, and there's his quote from 'Mort'; "THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE IS JUST ME").  Azrael also has a clock that controls time itself for some reason.

====Witches Abroad====
*Sub-Series: Witches of Lancre
*Focus of Satire: Vacations and Fairy Tales.

Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick travel to Genua (not-quite <s>New Orleans</s> Genoa) in an attempt to, for a change, prevent a servant girl from marrying a prince. While doing so they come into conflict with Lilith, a woman Granny Weatherwax knows all too well.

====Small Gods====
*Sub-Series: Stand Alone/Ancient Peoples
*Focus of Satire: Religion and philosophy

A standalone book, or a follow up to '''Pyramids.''' The Omnian Empire (which is sort of like the Spanish Inquisition if it was run by [[Paranoia|Friend Computer]]) holds that the worship of the Great God Om comes above all. The novice Brutha finds a turtle dropped by an eagle only to be shocked when it talks and claims to BE the Great God Om (holy "horns" included). Om has lost his tremendous godly power because the people's faith in Him has been gradually replaced by fear of the church and its punishments for nonbelief, and Brutha is pretty much his last, faithful worshipper.

This book is infamous for fucking up the timeline: in ''Pyramids,'' which features cameos by and has references to several mortal characters in other Discworld books , Omnia is as described in this book: a theocratic empire hell-bent on converting or killing all on Klatch. However, in all subsequent books Brutha is referred to as the Great Prophet and more than a century has passed since the events of ''Small Gods.'' The inconsistency maybe might be could be addressed by ''Thief of Time.''

====Lords and Ladies====
*Sub-Series: Witches of Lancre
*Focus of Satire: Shakespeare (specifically A Mid Summer Night's Dream), friendly sparkly elves and fairies

The Lancre Witches come into conflict with [[Changeling: The Lost|the Fae]], who enter the Discworld from their own parasitic universe. This happens right around Magrat's impending wedding with the king of Lancre. We also learn that Ridcully and Granny Weatherwax were once a thing in their youths.

====Men at Arms====
*Sub-Series: City Watch
*Focus of Satire: Policing in a diverse society, [[Firearm]]s in Fantasy, [[Monarchy|Monarchism]].

Debut of Angua and Detrius as a major character. Captain Vimes is going to marry and retire from the watch within the week. Before he goes, he has to train three new minority recruits he was forced to take on by Lord Vetinari: Detrius the troll, Cuddy the dwarf and Angua the w-, eh, that should be obvious. Meanwhile, a retired Assassin deduces that corporal Carrot might very well be the heir to the throne of the city and hatches a plot to put Carrot there, one which requires the use of a forbidden artefact of killing intent.

====Soul Music====
*Sub-Series: Death/Industrial Revolution.
*Focus of Satire: Rock and Roll.

Debut of Susan. The elf-ish Llamedosian musician Imp y Celyn chafes at the rigid ways of making music in his native village and decides to make his way to Ankh-Morpork to make a living with his music there. After some initial hurdles and the breaking of his old instrument, he buys a guitar from a mysterious shop that disappears and appears all over the place. The instrument seems to have a mind of its own, and while it plays some very powerful music it takes a toll on his psyche. Meanwhile, Death's granddaughter Susan puts the powers in her blood that was passed down by her grandfather (somehow, it's the Disc and heredity means more than squiggly spirals when the Grim Reaper adopts you) to the test as she tries to save Imp from himself.

====Interesting Times====
*Sub-Series: Rincewind
*Focus of Satire: East Asia, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Communist Revolutions.

Rincewind is forced by the wizards to go to the Agatean Empire, located on the Counterweight Continent. Here he encounters old friends and is pulled into an extremely polite rebellion against the overbearing empire, very much against his will.

====Maskerade====
*Sub-series: Witches of Lancre
*Focus of Satire: The Phantom of the Opera, Opera and broadly speaking musical theatre.

Phantom of the Opera redux. Now that Magrat is a queen Granny and Nanny need a third witch to fill out their coven. Their eye falls on Agnes Nitt, a sizable young woman with an amazing singing voice, who has recently moved to Ankh-Morpork to join the opera. The people there are very much impressed with her voice but finds herself an understudy to the much less talented, intelligent and sizable Christine. While Agnes doesn't want anything to do with witchery, she cannot help but think like a witch when faced with the mysterious and murderous Phantom. Of the opera.

====Feet of Clay====
*Sub-Series: City Watch
*Focus of Satire: Police Procedurals and Whodunits. AND robot fiction, e.g. [[Isaac Asimov|Asimov]].

Debut of Cheery Littlebottom. The City Watch is larger and more effective than ever. Their first major case is a pair of murders that may or may not involve [[golem]]s, the clay automatons working in the city. At the same time, the Watch has to deal with the poisoning of Lord Vetinari, which puts the city in a delicate position.

====Hogfather====
*Sub-series: Death
*Focus of Satire: Christmas, belief systems.

Susan has taken up a job as a governess, trying to live a normal life despite all the supernatural things happening around her. Meanwhile, the Auditors of Reality hatch a plot to have the Hogfather (the Discworld equivalent of Santa) assassinated, forcing Death to take his place. Regardless of what she wants, Susan is roped into the investigation of what happened to the Hogfather and ends up entangled in a plot involving both the monsters under our beds and the completely mundane people who should scare us more.

====Jingo====
*Sub-Series: City Watch
*Focus of Satire: Nationalism, Racism, Militarism and the Middle East.

The island of Leshp rises out of the sea, smack dab between Ankh-Morpork and the not-Arabic Klatch. When diplomatic efforts go awry it is up to Commander Vimes of the City Watch to keep the peace and find the would-be assassin of the Klatchian ambassador.

====The Last Continent====
*Sub-Series: Rincewind
*Focus of Satire: Bladdy 'Straya, mate!

Rincewind is not dead, and in fact ended up on the continent of XXXX, where he does his usual running away from people who try to murder him. Meanwhile, the wizards try to find a cure for the Librarian's condition that interferes with his morphic field, causing him to switch into random animals and objects every time he sneezes. They discover that the only one who can help them with this would be Rincewind, and they set out on a quest to return him safely.

====Carpe Jugulum====
*Sub-series: Witches of Lancre
*Focus of Satire: Vampire Fiction

Aside from their usual weaknesses, [[vampire]]s seem to have a psychological need to set up things for would-be heroes to easily slay them: curtains that can be pulled aside easily, objects that can be used as improvised holy icons, chairs with sharp legs that can be used as stakes and so on.  A new generation of vampires, the de Magpyr family from Überwald, decides to adapt to this and set up shop in Lancre, deposing the original and far more moderate and honorable vampire count who lived there. This pits them against the witches and a soft-spoken Omnian reverend, the former of which know all too well how stories work.

====The Fifth Elephant====
*Sub-Series: City Watch
*Focus of Satire: Eastern Europe, post-Soviet Union politics, Nazism, Spy Stuff

Commander Vimes is sent to Überwald on a diplomatic mission to attend the coronation of a new Low King. With the theft of the Scone of Stone, a piece of extremely ancient dwarf bread that has been the seat of Low Kings for centuries, there can be no coronation. As Dwarf authorities attempt to simultaneously investigate and cover up this theft, Vimes begins to realize that this event is only part of a larger game being played between the new rising factions in Überwald after centuries of feudalism under an undead nobility. Meanwhile, Angua's past catches up to her and she needs to decide whether to return to her old life or stay with Carrot and the Watch.

====The Truth====
*Sub-Series: Industrial Revolution, with Watch cameos.
*Focus of Satire: Journalism.

A standalone book. Scribe William de Worde teams up with a bunch of dwarfs to invent the printing press and essentially create the first newspaper. Meanwhile, the people who made an attempt to dethrone the Patrician return with a plot to replace him with a body double and hire Mr Pin and Mr Tulip (pretty much the Discworld version of Jules and Vincent from Pulp Fiction) to help them to this end. Notable for signifying the end of [[Medieval Stasis]] in the setting; while previous books introduced analogues of real world technology for the purposes of parody, they'd always be exposed as some dangerous magic whatsit that is conveniently disposed of at the end. The Truth marks the first time one of these fads actually stays a permanent part of the setting. 

====Thief of Time====
*Sub-series: Death
*Focus of Satire: Martial Arts, Spy Stuff, Time Travel, the Apocalypse and In-Universe Continuity.

The Auditors of Reality make an attempt to stop time. They employ clockmaker Jeremy Clockson to build a clock that, when turned on last time, stopped time and shattered history. The History Monks, a monastic tradition dedicated to the protection of time, apprentice the know-it-all student Lobsang Ludd to the sweeper Lu-Tze, who is far, FAR more than he lets on. Lobsang discovers that he has a knack for working with the Procrastinators, machines that can manipulate time. The two of them are sent to Ankh-Morpork by the abbot of the History Monks to discover what made the Procrastinators go haywire. All the while, Death attempts to recruit Susan and his fellow Horsemen to ride out to not end the world, but save it instead. This book also introduces a convenient explanation for every single continuity error and anachronism in the series: when the History Monks repair the timeline, sometimes they don't do a clean job.

====The Last Hero====
*Sub-Series: Rincewind, with City Watch
*Focus of Satire: Barbarian Heroes, Space Travel, Pulp Fantasy Tropes

Cohen the Barbarian, bitter at the heavens for making mankind mortal and playing games with their lives and bored with ruling the Agatean Empire, teams up with his fellow elderly barbarian adventurers and his former arch-nemesis Evil Harry Dread, all adherents of the old Code that ruled life on the Discworld in the days before the first books in the series, to climb to Dunmanifestin, the home of the gods of the Disc, and give them a piece of his mind. Namely, their plan is to "return what the First Hero stole," giving fire back to the gods in the form of a massive keg of explosives. Knowing that blowing up Dunmanifestin would result in the destruction of the Disc's magical field and subsequently all life on its surface, Vetinari gathers up a crew of three individuals: Rincewind the Wizzard, Captain Carrot and the genius inventor Leonard of Quirm, to pilot a vessel of Leonard's design in order to reach Dunmanifestin in time to stop Cohen's plot.

====Night Watch====
*Sub-Series: City Watch
*Focus of Satire: Political Revolution and Les Miserables.

Commander Vimes is cast thirty years back in time, alongside the murderer that he was chasing, as a result of Thief of Time's plot. Vimes ends up taking the place of his old mentor John Keel and begins to take a pivotal role in the civil war against the mad Patrician Lord Winder. It's like ''Les Mis'' meets ''Terminator 2'', except Valjean is a psychopath and Javert-slash-Ahnold doesn't die in the end... kind of.

While it has plenty of jokes, it's also probably the most serious and dark Discworld novel. When the time comes for it, it can be ''chilling''.

====Monstrous Regiment====
*Sub-Series: Stand-alone with Watch cameos.
*Focus of Satire: British Military, Sharpe, Women dressing up as men to serve in the military and other gender-related matters.

Oliver Perks wants to join the army so that he can find out what happened to his brother. He has a rough time there not just because of the hardships his country is going through, but because he's actually a girl named Polly. She finds herself amongst a motley group of fellow soldiers lead by the naïve but dutiful Lieutenant Blouse and the hard around the edges but very protective Sergeant Jackrum. As the group make their way to the front to join the rest of the 10th Foot, they begin to realize that the war is going much worse than they thought, and the foundations of Borogravian government and religion (and the gender binary) begin to wobble.

====Going Postal====
*Sub Series: Industrial Revolution
*Focus of Satire: The Post Office, Communications, White Collar Crime, Public vs Private services.

Debut of Moist von Lipwig. Albert Spangler is caught for theft, tried, convicted, hanged, buried and receives an obituary. Moist von Lipwig, what he is actually called, wakes up in the Patrician's office instead. Vetinari makes him an offer: take a second round on the rope or become the new Postmaster of the defunct Ankh-Morpork Post Office. He is assigned a parole officer (a golem) and reluctantly sets out to do his new job. Moist is a man who not only takes refuge in audacity but builds up its defences, raises an army of shooting targets, and makes war on logic. The new AMPO turns out to be a success, but this pits him against the powerful Grand Trunk, the company running the semaphores. The Grand Trunk does not like competition ruining their bottom line, which consists of ruthlessly exploiting the workers and ruining the company's working culture.

====Thud!====
*Sub-Series: City Watch
*Focus of Satire: Race Relations, reactionary politics, generations-old grudges and policing around said issues in a multicultural society.

Right before the anniversary of the Battle of Koom Valley (an old, grudge-setting battle between the trolls and dwarfs) a dwarfish ''grag'' gets his head smashed in. On the scene a troll club is found, driving up the tensions between trolls and dwarfs. Worse, the Watch is forced to employ a new recruit: Salacia von Humpeding, who is a vampire. While investigating the murder Vimes hurts his hand and it starts to itch strangely. With the threat of an all-out war looming over them Vimes and the Watch have to solve one of their most important cases yet.

====Making Money====
*Sub-Series: Industrial Revolution
*Focus of Satire: [[Money]] (duh) and Economics, Banking

After his success at the AMPO, Vetinari assigns Moist von Lipwig to the Royal Mint, tasking him with laying the foundations of a robust financial system that will support Vetinari's upcoming ambitious civic construction projects. He gets to meet the majority shareholder of the Royal Bank of Anhk-Morpork, a clever old lady who immediately makes Moist out for the crook that he is. She dies soon afterwards, leaving her shares to her dog Mr Fusspot, then leaving the dog to Moist... as well as a significant contract on his head if something were to happen to the dog, roping Moist into her final revenge on her scheming in-laws: With Mr. Fusspot owning a controlling share in the bank, the Lavishes, the family that the previous chairwoman married into, lose their centuries-old family claim to the running of the bank. As Moist tries to rebuild public confidence in banks and dodges attempts by members of the Lavish family, his name and face become well-known across the Sto Plains... and soon enough, his past life comes knocking.

====Unseen Academicals====
*Sub-series: Stand Alone
*Focus of satire: Football, classism and racism, Romeo and Juliette.

Romeo and Juliet... WITH FOOTBALL! The Patrician tries to civilize the old game of Foot-the-Ball, complete with the traditional Foot-The-Ball hooliganry. The wizards end up getting involved, but they require a coach. The UU servant Mr. Nutt helps them out with this, but he turns out to be far more than meets the eye.

====Snuff====
*Sub-Series: City Watch
*Focus of Satire: Pride and Prejudice, travellers and gypsies, and detective series such Poirot and Midsomer Murders.

Commander Vimes is dragged off on a holiday to the countryside. Being all too aware of what happened the last time he went on one (see The Fifth Elephant), he is none too surprised to find that there was a murder. But nobody in the area seems to care on account of the victim being a goblin. Vimes however disagrees: a crime is a crime and criminals must be punished. He finds no allies in the area, with the local police actually working against him. But this does not stop Vimes, putting him in what is one of the more heavy-handed stories in the series. [[Wat|And Nobby gets a girlfriend]].

====Raising Steam====
*Sub-Series: Industrial Revolution
*Focus of Satire: Rail Transport, Reactionary politics

Moist von Lipwig is once again given a new job: help develop the Ankh Morpork and Sto Plains Hygenic Railway, a company founded by inventor Dick Simnel and industrialist Sir Harry King, into a secure and speedy method of transportation between the nations of the Unnamed Continent- and to make sure that this transport can be used hold Lord Vetinari's carefully maintained post-Evil Empire international order together. As the enterprise begins to expand, its activities begin to draw the attention of Dwarfish fundamentalist grags, once again rising to political prominence and challenging the Low King's authority, who try to sabotage the rail line as they do with any piece of Ankh-Morpork technology. Moist is tasked with making sure that the AMSPHR completes an express line to Bonk in anticipation of an attempt to topple Rhys Rhysson's government during an upcoming diplomatic visit to Quirm, and when the time comes, he once again finds himself having to improvise.

====The Shepherd's Crown====
The last book Terry Pratchett wrote before he dies. [[meme|mayherestinpeace]]. Anyway, The book begins with the death of Granny Weatherwax. [[meme|maysherestinpeace]]. Her death not only felt by everyone in Lancre, but also weakened the barrier of the world that allows the lovecraftian Elves to invade the world. Tiffany the young witch has to stop the elves invasion.

===Tiffany Aching series===
These books pick up where the main Witches series left off. While ostensibly for younger readers than the original series, that's more about the age of the main character, who starts out at 9 years old in the Wee Free Men and grows up throughout the series. (Editor's note: If you've got problems with J.K. Rowling for any of the several reasons people usually do or have realized that the direction of Harry Potter after book four is politically extremely stupid, this is MUCH better if you're looking for "young magical person grows up learning about magic and themselves" material for your kids.).)
====The Wee Free Men====

====A Hat Full of Sky====

====Wintersmith====

====I Shall Wear Midnight====

====The Shepherd's Crown====

===The Science of Discworld series===
A quadrology of books co-authored by Pterry, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen, each book alternates between a chapter telling a story set in the Discworld, and a chapter discussing one real-world scientific phenomena.

The overarching plot of the trilogy is that an experiment in High Magic overseen by the Unseen University creates something hitherto unimaginable: a [[demiplane]] containing a universe ''without any magic''. Fascinated by this phenomena, the leading minds of the Unseen University observe the development of one particular planet, created when the Dean stuck his fingers into the nascent universe and wiggled them about a bit. Watching as sapient life arises several times, only to be wiped out by global catastrophe, they finally decide that enough is enough when a race of apparent [[human]]s arises, and they decide to subtly guide humanity to a future in which they develop space travel and leave Earth before the next mass extinction.

The first book focuses on the setup of this paradigm, whilst the second and third books revolve around the Unseen University responding to specific threats to their project and the fourth is about a court case and religion and belief.

In the second book, the Auditors of Reality, intuitively loathing this magicless universe, manipulate events so that Charles Darwin has an encounter with the Discworld's God of Evolution; thus, he writes a book championing Intelligent Design instead of evolution, which turns out to fuck up humanity's progress to becoming a spacefaring society - as a result, the wizards must step in and ensure that he is corrected of his mistake, which ultimately requires them to temporarily bring him into the Discworld so he can see the God of Evolution in his own natural habitat (read: as a pathetic weirdo even by the dubious standards of Discworld deities) and inform him of the lost civilizations of pre-human Earth.

The third book, by comparison, is a more straightforward battle between the Wizards and elves across "Roundworld's" time zones, in order to prevent Roundworld humanity becoming fodder for the imagination-sucking parasites.

===Other books===
====The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents====
*Focus of Satire: The Pied Piper, The Secret of NIHM, the works of Beatrix Potter

The first Discworld book intended for younger audiences, meaning that there are fewer sex jokes and the subject matter is about 20% darker than average. The titular Amazing Maurice is a sentient talking cat, who alongside his intelligent rats and a human boy named Keith sets up a scam where the rats will infest towns in order to get them to pay Keith, who poses as a professional rat piper, to get rid of them. The rats, fed up with this racket and trying to build a society and culture from scratch, want to quit, but get sucked into something more serious than a simple con when their "one last job" uncovers a conspiracy in the Uberwaldean town of Bad Blintz.

====Where's My Cow?====
*Focus of Satire: Children's picture books
A real-world adaptation of the children's book Samuel Vimes reads to his son every night. A basic kids book about a man looking for his cow, and finding other farm animals instead. Things get interesting when Sam Vimes, realizing someone born in the city would probably never see a cow in his life outside of the dinner plate, rewrites the story to feature people from Ankh-Morpork Sam knows.

====The World of Poo====
*Focus of Satire: Children's picture books
Another real-world adaptation of a in-universe children's book. The story is about Geoffrey, a boy that becomes fascinated with the different varieties of animal feces and decides to open a museum dedicated to it. Let's just say that Vimes was pretty disappointed when it replaced Where's My Cow as his son's favourite book.