Tale Foundry

In each of his works (and there are more than 100 of them), Terry Pratchett managed to do something few authors ever have—he wrote with a sense of unity. All his many separate voices have a strange feeling of familiarity. Let's investigate how, and whether this is something other writers can do as well.

Terry Pratchett was a busy bibliophile. He did write Good Omens with Neil Gaiman and pen more than thirty Discworld books, but he also created more than 100 works total during his lifetime. Quite a tall stack, even for the most intrepid reader, but worth the delve if you have the time. In this video, we help you orient yourself within his massive oeuvre by introducing you to some of his strangest—and cleverest—characters.

In a harebrained scheme to humiliate two sprawling internet communities, a forgotten machine and a sinister stranger don their disguises and begin a doomed show.