Moving Pictures (Discworld Novel 10)

Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett is the Discworld novel that takes on Hollywood — the arrival of Holy Wood on the Disc, a place where Narrative Causality is unusually strong and where everyone who arrives finds themselves compelled to make moving pictures. Pratchett’s satire of the film industry — the egos, the obsessions, the strange power of the screen — is characteristically sharp, while his genuine affection for cinema shows through in every parody and reference. As with the best Discworld novels, the comedy is the vehicle for something more serious: a meditation on the power of stories and images over human imagination and desire. Published by Penguin, Moving Pictures is one of the most beloved entries in the series and a perfect example of what made Pratchett one of the most important comic writers of the twentieth century.