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Sourcery
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| Terry Pratchett The Discworld series 5th novel – 3rd Rincewind story  |
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| Outline | |
| Characters: | Rincewind |
| Locations: | Ankh-Morpork Klatch |
| Motifs: | Wizards and sorcery; Apocalypse |
| Publication details | |
| Year of release: | 1988 |
| Original publisher: | Victor Gollancz |
| Hardback ISBN: | ISBN 0-575-04217-6 |
| Paperback ISBN: | ISBN 0-552-13107-5 |
| Other details | |
| Awards: | |
| Notes: | |
Sourcery is the fifth Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, published in 1988. On the Discworld, sourcerers - wizards who are sources of magic – were the main cause of the great mage wars that left areas of the disc uninhabitable. Men born the eighth son of an eighth son are commonly Wizards. Since sourcerers are born the eighth son of an eighth son of eighth son, wizards are not allowed to marry or have children. The first few pages of the novel deal with a sourcerer's father who cheats death by making a prophecy that Death must honour; the alternative is to risk destroying the Discworld. The rest of the novel deals with the sourcerer's plan to have wizards rule the Discworld, and the efforts of a small group - including Rincewind the Wizard, Nijel the destroyer and Conina the Hairdresser, daughter of Cohen the Barbarian - to thwart those plans.
Terry Pratchett has said that he considers this the book to be the one in which his writing style began to mature[citation needed].
| Language | Title | Round-trip translation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bulgarian | Магизточник | ||
| Croatian | Kiselo čaranje | Sour sorcery | Inaccurate[1] |
| Czech | Magický prazdroj | ||
| Danish | Megamagikeren | The Mega Magician | |
| Dutch | Betoverkind | ||
| Estonian | Ürgsorts | ||
| Finnish | Velhous verissä | ||
| French | Sourcellerie | ||
| German | Der Zauberhut | The Magician's Hat[2] | |
| Greek | Πιάστε τον μάγο[3] | ||
| Hungarian | Bűbájos bajok | ||
| Italian | Stregoneria | Sorcery | |
| Norwegian | Magiens kilde | The Source of Magic | |
| Polish | Czarodzicielstwo | ||
| Portuguese | Fontiçaria | Portugal | |
| Portuguese | O Oitavo Mago | The 8th Mage | Brazil |
| Romanian | Copilul Minune | ||
| Russian | Посох и шляпа | ||
| Serbian | Čudotvorac | ||
| Spanish | Rechicero | ||
| Swedish | Svartkonster | Black Arts |
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- ^ The Croatian translation of the title, Kiselo čaranje, isn't a literal translation. It is also inaccurate. Literally translated it would mean something in the line of Sour sorcery or Sour spellcraft , because it was translated taking into account the sour part of Sourcery. Thus, omiting the -rce in source the translation has lost the meaning of the original title.
- ^ Or The Magic Hat."Sorcery" would be "Zauberei".
- ^ Transliteration: Piaste ton mago
