Equal Rites: Difference between revisions

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Because of the book's feminist slant and the fact that the name Terry can be unisex, a lot of female authors praised the book while assuming Terry Pratchett was a woman (this was, of course, before he was a near-household name), which is why copies these days usually have his photo on the back.

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=== ''Equal Rites'' provides examples of the following tropes: ===

== ''Equal Rites'' provides examples of the following tropes ==

* [[Achievements in Ignorance]]: Esk is able to teleport something without a "counter-weight" because no-one's ever told her this is impossible.

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* [[Lovely Assistant]]: Referenced, the members of the Guild of Conjurers are accompanied by "sad thin women in spangly tights" (as in The Amazing Bunko and Doris).

* [[The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body]]: Played for [[Nightmare Fuel]] when Eskarina tries to stay in the body of an eagle for too long. Just read it (or don't), okay? It's hard to describe.

* [[Readings Are Off the Scale]]: When Esk is in the Dungeon Dimensions and the staff (standing upright in the river) empathically feels this, it grows impossibly cold, freezing the ~~river -- but~~ the water immediately around the staff is so cold that it actually ''anti-boils''.

* [[Readings Are Off the Scale]]: When Esk is in the Dungeon Dimensions and the staff (standing upright in the river) empathically feels this, it grows impossibly cold, freezing the river—but the water immediately around the staff is so cold that it actually ''anti-boils''.

* [[Retcon]]: Blink and you'll miss it, but this is actually the first book to refer to the leader of Unseen University as the ~~Archchancellor -- in~~ ''The Light Fantastic'' Galder Weatherwax was just described as the Chancellor. Later books retconned the Archchancellor title as always being there.

* [[Retcon]]: Blink and you'll miss it, but this is actually the first book to refer to the leader of Unseen University as the Archchancellor—in ''The Light Fantastic'' Galder Weatherwax was just described as the Chancellor. Later books retconned the Archchancellor title as always being there.

* [[Shapeshifter Showdown]]: The duel between Cutangle and Granny, inspired by those in the Arthurian Mythos (and perhaps best known to modern eyes through Disney's ''[[The Sword in the Stone]]'') which illustrates the difference between wizard and witch magic, Cutangle turning into powerful things and Granny into more modest things that restrain them through subtlety.

* [[Shout-Out]]: The other worlds that the Things are trying to break into include a flat world with a [[World Tree]], another flat world with the Midgard Serpent (also referenced in ''[[Discworld/The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]'') and a round world which is, of course, implied to be ours.