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Moving Pictures – Josh Kirby Paperback – Letterbox Edition

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The tenth Discworld novel, a standalone, in Penguin’s new Letterbox paperback with Josh Kirby’s classic cover art. Holy Wood calls, the alchemists invent the clicks, and Ankh-Morpork discovers fame. Victor Tugelbend, Ginger Withel, Gaspode the Wonder Dog and C.M.O.T. Dibbler chase stardom while something under the hill feeds on belief. Pratchett’s satire of Hollywood, with imps in the camera and reality coming unstuck at the edges.
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Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett – Penguin Letterbox Edition (Josh Kirby cover)

Holy Wood is a different sort of place. Elsewhere the important things are gods, money or cattle. Here the important thing is to be important.

The alchemists of Ankh-Morpork have found a new way to turn silver into gold: moving pictures. Octo-cellulose, imps in a box, and a beach with better light than the city. People pack up and follow the calling. So do Victor Tugelbend, a student wizard whose main talent is not graduating, and Theda “Ginger” Withel, who comes from a little town you have probably never heard of. C.M.O.T. Dibbler smells a fortune in sausages and tickets. Gaspode the Wonder Dog smells a rat. Laddie just wants a biscuit.

The clicks are harmless until they are not. On the Disc, belief has weight. A thousand people staring at the same story can punch a hole in the world. Something old under Holy Wood hill has been waiting for an audience. The wizards of Unseen University notice the instruments twitching. Detritus gets a part. Reality starts to look like a badly edited reel.First published in 1990, Moving Pictures is Discworld novel 10 and a true standalone: silent-film parody, studio satire, and a warning about stories that eat the people who tell them. You do not need the Watch or the Witches. You only need a taste for Pratchett when he aims at fame, formula and the dark behind the projector.

This new Letterbox paperback from Penguin carries Josh Kirby’s original painting, one that collectors remember: sword, starlet, troll, dog, Dibbler and a camera crew piled onto a very large lizard under a Holy Wood sky.

  • Discworld novel 10
  • Standalone
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • Cover artist: Josh Kirby
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • Size: approx. 198 mm × 128 mm × 25 mm

Additional information

Weight 350 g