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{{Infobox book
| title = Sourcery
| image = Sourcery_cover.jpg
| caption = UK paperback cover
| author = Terry Pratchett
| central theme =
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| genre = Fantasy
| franchise = Discworld
| preceded by = Mort
| followed by = Wyrd Sisters
| publication date = 1988
}}
The fifth [[Discworld]] novel and a return to Rincewind as central character. Very much a sequel to ''[[
Wizards (in early Discworld books at least) are the eighth sons of eighth sons, and they are forbidden to marry. Why? Well, one wizard, Ipslore, runs away and defies the rules by wedding and having children. The first seven are as powerful from birth as any wizard in the world (and are never mentioned again). The eighth... the eighth is the eighth son of an eighth son of an eighth son. A wizard cubed... a ''source'' of magic, not merely one who can manipulate the magic already present in the world... a ''[[A Worldwide Punomenon|Sourcerer]]''.
Unfortunately, there's a very good reason why the Discworld has no Sourcerers. The Sourcerer's powerful magic makes him
The preface includes Pratchett's story about the Luggage being inspired by an American woman tugging a large, recalcitrant suitcase on wheels (which he later admitted he wasn't sure he hadn't made up or not) and adds, "[[Fantasy World Map|This book does not contain a map]]. Please feel free to draw your own."
Pratchett has commented that ''Sourcery'' is his least favorite book of the series, saying he wrote it out of pressure by fans to do another Rincewind book.
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Ipslore cows Coin into committing evil actions and uses magical [[Electric Torture]] on him when he tries to disobey.
** For being a guy with eight sons, you'd figure he would have gotten better at this parenting thing over the years. But then, he threw out the other seven when they dared to question him.
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* [[Expecting Someone Taller]]: Rincewind with Conina and later, Coin.
* [[Extreme Doormat]]: Coin, having grown up as his father's mindslave, has elements of this.
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* [[Eyes of Gold]]: Coin.
* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: Klatch as the generalized 'cultured but decadent oriental state', evoking the Ottoman Empire, Xanadu, etc.
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* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Out of sight for {{spoiler|Spelter}} and in plain sight for {{spoiler|Carding}}. Both had spent most of the book {{spoiler|enabling Coin's rise to power, and each realizes what a mistake that was. Spelter is presumably vanished while striking against Coin's staff with a meat cleaver, and Carding realizes that [[Eldritch Abomination|they're opened a highway to the Dungeon Dimension]], goes somewhat mad to the point of frightening Coin, and makes a grab for the staff}}.
* [[Rhetorical Question Blunder]]:
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* [[Rouge Angles of Satin]]: Rincewind's hat bears the word "WIZZARD" in sequins. An interesting example, in that ''at the time'' this was just one of the many examples of the Disc folk's use of [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]] and creative spelling, yet when Rincewind returns in ''[[
* [[Sequel Hook]]: A wizard always comes back for his hat.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Rincewind and Creosote use expressions from [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]'s "Kubla Khan" when they talk about Creosote's "Wilderness". There's also a few [[Shout-Out|ShoutOuts]] to ''The Rubaiyat'' and the ''[[Arabian Nights]]''. Combined with [[It Will Never Catch On]] when Rincewind says "Telling stories in a harem? That's not bloody normal! It'll never catch on!"
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* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Rincewind says he doesn't like snakes much, and promptly gets thrown in the snake pit. Justified in that it was apparently the only functioning torture device in Al Khali that day.
** Also hilarious, in that there's really only one snake, and that one doesn't attack. The narration is split on whether it's because the snake sees Rincewind as a sort of possible mongoose, or whether it's just got a good thing going and doesn't want to spoil it by going around biting people.
* [[The Worf Effect]]: Kind of a hindsight example, in that Coin easily dispatches Lord Vetinari, that most Magnificent of [[Magnificent Bastard
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