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Discworlder (pluralDiscworlders)
- Aninhabitant of theDiscworld fromTerry Pratchett’sDiscworld fantasy novels.
1999,New Scientist, volume163, page48, column 2:ToDiscworlders steeped in magic, the science of Roundworld—our science—did not always look as alien as you’d imagine.
1999 November, Bette D. Ammon, “SOUL MUSIC. (A Discworld novel.) Terry Pratchett. 1994/1996. ISIS Audio Books. Read by Nigel Planer. […]”, inKliatt, volume33, number 6,page58, column 3:His various voices and accents range from exaggerated Cockney to raspy utterances to adenoidal inflections, and Planer zips effortlessly fromDiscworlder toDiscworlder with aplomb.
2011,Peter J[ames] Carroll,The Octavo (Roundworld Edition): A Sorcerer-Scientist’s Grimoire,Mandrake of Oxford,→ISBN,page83:NowDiscworlders use peculiar units, the appearance of a small white goose or three billiard balls for the Thaum, and the movement of a pound of lead one foot for the Prime.
2016, Christopher Ketcham, “The Alchemy of Flat Worlds”, in Nicolas Michaud, editor,Discworld and Philosophy: Reality Is Not What It Seems (Popular Culture and Philosophy),Open Court Publishing Company,→ISBN:Geometry to Flatlanders is as important as magic is toDiscworlders.[…] Flatlanders favorstring theory andDiscworlders favorloop quantum gravity as the way to tie the theories of Einstein and quantum mechanics together.[…]Discworlders, on the other hand, favor telling the story of loop quantum gravity first because, like Einstein they are enamored with storytelling, and, second; the minuscule but discretequantum of loop quantum gravity andspin networks are as mysterious as their thaum.
2019, Joseph Rex Young,George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature),Routledge,→ISBN:In trying to be glamorous, the less astuteDiscworlders merely end up grubby –alazons open to criticism by their intellectual betters both inside and outside the text.[…] At the climaxes of their stories,Discworlders often find themselves in supernatural situations which Pratchett keeps largely free of bathos.
2021,Stephen Briggs,The Shakespeare Codex, Methuen Drama,→ISBN, page60:And one of theDiscworlders was carrying these?
