The Wee Free Men (Terry David John Pratchett) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги

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There was some confusion on afp as to the place where The Wee Free Men fits in the Discworld chronology. With Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg flying to the Chalk, is the third witch left holding the fort in Lancre Magrat or Agnes?

Terry says:

“As for the chronology, it’s ‘now’ — or at least, after Carpe Jugulum. Since Carpe Jugulum a clan of NMF have been living in Lancre, too.”

"The Wee Free Men was doodled around the time of Carpe Jugulum, but with a young male hero and set in Lancre. It evolved for all kinds of good and vindicated reasons, but among them was the realisation that it’d be too damn hard to keep the witches from taking a major role.

That’s one of the constrictions to writing a long-term series like this. If something big, bad and public happens in Ankh-Morpork now, it will have a terrible tendency to become a Watch book. It’s not inevitable, given the palette I’ve got to play with, but it is a consideration.”