Terry Pratchett's Ethical Worlds

Kristin Noone is an English instructor and writing center faculty at Irvine Valley College in Southern California; her research interests include medievalism and adaptation, heterotemporalities, superheroes, fantasy and the fantastic, and popular romance, and she has published on topics from ethics in the work of Terry Pratchett to the symbolism of Dean Winchester’s pie in Supernatural. Emily Lavin Leverett is a professor of English at Methodist University in Fayetteville North Carolina. With her primary focus as Medieval English Romance—tales of adventure, magic, chivalry, faith, and fantasy, she also studies medievalism, the ways that the romances of medieval Britain have made their way into contemporary arts, specifically English author Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: Terry Pratchett’s Ethical WorldsKristin Noone and Emily Lavin LeverettSomething That Gods Are: Acts of Creation in Terry Pratchett’s Early Science FictionKristin NooneConan the Nonagenarian: Beyond Hyborian Hypermasculinity with Terry Pratchett’s Cohen the BarbarianMike PerschonCarrot Ironfoundersson: Medieval Romance, Narrative Causality and the Ethics of Choice in Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards!Emily Lavin LeverettSelf-Discovery, Free Will and Change: The Ethics of Growing Up in the Fantasy Novels of Terry PratchettKathleen BurtThe ­Anglo-Saxon Ælf: Old English Influences in Terry Pratchett’s The Wee Free Men and The Shepherd’s CrownLivia BongiovanniConstructing Identity Through Language in DiscworldElise A. BellRhetoricity of Discworld: Magic and the Ethics of FootnotesAmy Lea ClemonsThe Golempunk Manifesto: Ownership of the Means of Production in Pratchett’s DiscworldJanet Brennan CroftNeomedievalism and the Ethics of Colonization in Pratchett and Baxter’s The Long Earth and The LongSadie E. HashAppendix: Works and AdaptationsAbout the ContributorsIndex

“An illuminating—and, honestly, just plain fun to read—addition to the growing body of scholarly work on Pratchett’s oeuvre…readers will find highly-enjoyable pieces…a delight to read. Its ambitious project and often complex topics are bolstered by contributors’ obvious enjoyment of the texts themselves…accessible and exciting, one of those uncommon works of scholarship that I would also pick up on a rare day off just to enjoy seeing rich new perspectives on a favorite fantasy world…well worth a read…those interested in examinations of the fantasy genre…will appreciate the collection’s focus…[and] value its thoughtful revisitation of a gentle giant in the genre.”—SFRA Review