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| author = Terry Pratchett
| central theme = Creators are exempt from the rules of time
| elevator pitch = The wizards want Rincewind to help their out-of-shape librarian - but he's in the desert while they're stuck in a prehistoric paradise. What kind of name is Mono Island, anyway?
| genre = Fantasy
| franchise = Discworld
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| publication date = 1998
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The 22nd ''[[Discworld]]'' novel and the sixth in the Rincewind theme. Was written at the same time as ''[[
At Unseen University, the wizards are concerned as the Librarian has contracted a form of magical flu which interferes with his morphic field, turning him into random beings and objects every time he sneezes. In order to cure him of these transformations, they need to know his real name, but he refuses to tell them as he's afraid someone will turn him back into a human. The wizards realize that beside the Librarian, only Rincewind knows this name.
Unfortunately, the events of ''[[
Back in Ankh-Morpork, the wizards, looking for the Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography to help them navigate to XXXX, discover that he's missing and his office conceals a portal to a nice sunny island. They, and housekeeper Mrs Whitlow, all end up trapped there.
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* [[Airport Novel]]: Referenced/parodied when it's stated that any novel taken to a beach will spontaneously turn into a [[Doorstopper]] conspiracy thriller with [[Mad Lib Thriller Title|at least one Greek letter in the title]]. The Lecturer in Recent Runes' book turns into ''The Omega Conspiracy''.
* [[Australian Wildlife]]: disturbingly accurate in that [[Everything Trying to Kill You|Everything Really Does Try To Kill You]] down under. Yes, this includes the spiders, the snakes, the kangaroos, the koalas ''and'' the earth itself. Also, a surprisingly accurate analogy of the Melbourne underworld (... and no, sadly enough, this is ''not'' a joke).
* [[Author Filibuster]]: There's a brief one (also referenced in ''[[
* [[Bigger on the Inside]]: The Bugarup University tower is about twenty feet high from the outside, and about twenty feet high when you're climbing it. When you look out from the top, however, you're half a mile above ground.
* [[Break the Haughty]]/[[Break the Cutie]]: Ponder Stibbons penultimate [[Break the Haughty]] crossed with [[Break the Cutie]] comes in this book, courtesy of A) being stranded on an island which has some very strange ideas about evolutionary process, and B) being stranded on aforementioned island with [[Driven to Madness|Ridcully and the UU faculty]].
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* [[Canis Latinicus]]: ''Nullae Sheilae Sanginae" and "Nullus Anxietas", the BU mottoes.
** For those whose Latin is a bit rusty, those translate to "No Bloody [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|Sheilas]]" and "[[G'day, Mate|No Worries]]" respectively
* [[Continuity Nod]]: The wizards notice the stars over Mono Island are unfamiliar and at first think they are on another world. Ponder figures out that it's actually the past (the stars on Discworld change as Great A'tuin swims through space) by noting that a much larger nebula in the sky is, in their time, known as the Small Boring Group of Faint Stars. This was mentioned way back in ''[[
* [[Death World]]: where spiders use their web as trampolines to jump on your face and have venom capable of making wood smolder. Also, see [[Everything Trying to Kill You]] below.
* [[Doorstopper]]: Dangerous Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Jellyfish, Insects, Spiders, Crustaceans, Grasses, Trees, Mosses, and Lichens of Terror Incognita, Volume 29c, Part Three.
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* [[Land Down Under]]: [[Blatant Lies|although author claims it is not]]
** Well, if you want to be technical with this being the Disc there is no "under". It is more the landoverrimward.
** Justified, or at least hand-waved, in-universe. See Leaning on the Fourth Wall.
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: One of the characters explains that the being who created XXXX has a habit of adding continents of his own design to other creators' planets, and always puts in some kangaroos as a kind of trade-mark.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Mrs. Whitlow (according to the Senior Wrangler, at least)
* [[Myopic Architecture]]: While the door, walls, and bars of Rincewind's prison cell are thick and sturdy, and the lock was also very tough, the hinges on the door were half-pin, meaning the door could simply be ''lifted off its hinges''. Small wonder the previous occupant kept escaping.
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* [[Readings Blew Up the Scale]]: Ponder's magic-measuring thaumometer melts when the magic field used to create XXXX exceeds its limit of one million thaums.
* [[Recursive Crossdressing]]: One of the transvestites Rincewind encounters actually is female, and laments "Being a female impersonator is no job for a woman."
* [[Shout-Out]]: Rincewind encounters [[Mad Max|a mad dwarf in a heavily armed and armored cart]] and [[Priscilla Queen of the Desert|a trio of traveling transvestites]], inspires a folk song similar to "Waltzing Matilda",<ref>Once a moderately jolly wizard camped by a dried-up waterhole under the shade of a tree he was completely unable to identify. And he swore as he hacked and hacked at a can of beer, saying, [[It Will Never Catch On|"What kind of idiots put beer in tins?"]]</ref> and invents a dessert called "Peach Nellie" in
** Two in the fight scene between [[Mad Max|Mad]] and a random Ecksian bar-goer. "You call that a knife? ''[[Crocodile Dundee|This]]'' [[Crocodile Dundee|is what I call's a knife.]]" "No worries. ''This'' is what I call [[Raiders of the Lost Ark|a crossbow]]."
** And another with <s>Skippy</s> Scrappy the Bush Kangaroo.
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