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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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* [[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
* [[Retcon]]: Blink and you'll miss it, but this is actually the first book to refer to the leader of Unseen University as the
* [[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.
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