Sourcery is the fifth Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, published in 1988. The title is a pun on "sorcery" – on the Discworld, a sourcerer is a special type of wizard who is a source of magic. The first few pages of the novel deal with the sourcerer's father, who cheats death by making a prophecy that Death must honour or 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 and Conina the Hairdresser, daughter of Cohen the Barbarian - to thwart those plans.

Terry Pratchett has said that he considers this the book where his writing style truly began to mature.

Translations

• Магизточник (Bulgarian)
• Magický prazdroj (Czech)
• Megamagikeren (Danish)
• Betoverkind (Dutch)
• Ürgsorts (Estonian)
• Velhous verissä (Finnish)
• Sourcellerie (French)
• Der Zauberhut (German)
• Πιάστε τον μάγο (Piaste ton mago) (Greek)
• Bűbájos bajok (Hungarian)
• Magiens kilde (Norwegian)
• Czarodzicielstwo (Polish)
• Fontiçaria (Portuguese)
• O Oitavo Mago (Portuguese - Brazil)
• Copilul Minune (Romanian)
• Посох и шляпа (Russian)
• Čudotvorac (Serbian)
• Rechicero (Spanish)
• Svartkonster (Swedish)

External links

• Annotations for Sourcery
• Quotes from Sourcery
• Synopsis of Sourcery

1988 novels | Discworld books

Магизточник | Magický prazdroj | Rechicero | Sourcellerie | Czarodzicielstwo