The Colour of Magic is the first novel in Terry Pratchett's acclaimed Discworld series, of which some 20 million copies have been sold.
But if the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries, and, well, Death, is a spectacularly inept wizard, a little logic might turn out to be a very good idea. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the arrival of the first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. Discworld's first steam engine has arrived, and once again Moist von Lipwig finds himself with a new and challengin. But just because the Disc is different doesn't mean that some things don't stay the same. The new Discworld novel, the 40th in the series, sees the Disc's first train come steaming into town. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place that might sound and smell very much like our own, but that looks completely different. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot." "Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld.
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