There was something creepy about that boy, Nhumrod thought.Because what gods need is belief, and what humans want is gods.Blood is generally considered very efficient for this purpose. There's a tendency to declare that there is more backsliding around than in the national toboggan championships, that heresy must be torn out root and branch, and even arm and leg and eye and tongue, and that it's time to wipe the slate clean. This is considered a reliable barometer of the state of one's piety in most of the really popular religions.

This was very much like the bustle you get in any large concern when the auditors are expected, but tended towards taking people suspected of being less holy and putting them to death in a hundred ingenious ways. And, as is generally the case around the time a prophet is expected, the Church redoubled its efforts to be holy.And it came to pass that in that time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One:.It's just.well, things happening one after another. Things just happen, one after another.Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.It has survived while the rest of evolution flowed past it by being, on the whole, no threat to anyone and too much trouble to eat. It has about as good a turn of speed as you need to hunt down a lettuce. It is impossible to live nearer the ground without being under it. The tortoise is a ground-living creature.3.2 Discworld II (Missing presumed.?!) aka Mortality Bites!īooks The Colour of Magic (1983) The Light Fantastic (1986) Equal Rites (1987) Mort (1987) Sourcery (1988) Wyrd Sisters (1989) Pyramids (1989) Guards! Guards! (1989) Faust Eric (1990) Moving Pictures (1990) Reaper Man (1991) Witches Abroad (1991) Small Gods (1992) All page numbers from the mass market paperback edition published in March 2008 by Harper, ISBN 978-0-06-109217-6.2.9 The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch (2005).2.8 The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (2002).2.6 The Discworld Almanak - The Year of The Prawn (2004).2.5 Discworld (Reformed) Vampyre's Diary 2003.2.3 A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices (2005).1.16 The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (2001).

Void bastards spin and win