More importantly, his novels changed from being largely parodies to being satires as well, taking on a wide variety of subjects with incisive wit and humour. However, as his writing matured he began to parody other genres, within a fantasy setting these included: mysteries, crime fiction, political fiction (The City Watch series), horror ( Reaper Man), sports fiction ( Unseen Academicals), action/adventure novels ( The Last Continent, Reaper Man), westerns and a little bit of hacker fiction ( Going Postal).
His earlier works, such as The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic were straight parodies of the fantasy genre.
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Unseen University - named after the Invisible College, the forerunner to the Royal Society - is where wizards receive their training in magic, or specifically, how to not use magic, as Pratchett himself found the concept fundamentally boring so took a more satirical stance on the traditional world of spells and sorcery.
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Starting with The Colour of Magic, the series features such characters as a scythe-carrying Death and a deadly piece of luggage with legs. Discworld is supported in space on the backs of four elephants, which in turn stand on the back of the Great A'Tuin, a gigantic turtle swimming through the vastness of space. His best known books revolve around Discworld, a world controlled by numerous gods, where magic and narrative causality take the place of physics, where a million-to-one chance is always a sure thing (but not a million-and-one-to-one chance, because that'd just be silly).
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