Novels with magic in them give over an inordinate amount of time to such explanation. Once a novelist has freed him or herself from life's physical laws, once a novel is no longer bound by what the 18th-century pioneers of the genre called "the probable", you need to know the rules by which characters operate. From Dracula to The Lord of the Rings, fantasy heroes triumph by understanding the strict laws that govern the supernatural. Fantasy fiction is pedantically attentive to the rules governing its characters' powers, and the dangers that test them.
'This isn't just football, it's Discworld football.W here there is magic, there are rules. Some elements of the Discworld universe may reflect this. The first book in the Discworld series - The Colour of Magic - was published in 1983. Unseen Academicals is the seventh book in the Wizards series, but you can listen to the Discworld novels in any order. Īnd the thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football. To do so, they recruit an unlikely group of players: Trev, a street urchin with a talent for kicking a tin can Glenda, the night chef who makes a mean pie Juliet, the kitchen hand turned world's greatest fashion model and the mysterious Mr Nutt, who has something powerful, and dark, locked away inside him. so they're in the mood for trying everything else. And now the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match without using magic. 'We play and are played and the best we can hope for is to do it with style.'įootball has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. Featuring a new theme tune composed by James Hannigan. BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill Nighy ( Love Actually Pirates of the Caribbean Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) reads the footnotes, and Peter Serafinowicz ( Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Shaun of the Dead) stars as the voice of Death. The audiobook of Unseen Academicals is read by Colin Morgan ( Merlin Testament of Youth Belfast).
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