Pratchettian
English
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[edit]Pratchettian (comparative more Pratchettian, superlative most Pratchettian)
- Of or relating to Terry Pratchett (born 1948), English author of mostly comic fantasy novels.
- 1998, Adam Roberts, Silk and Potatoes: Contemporary Arthurian Fantasy, page 145:
- Outside this Pratchettian sub-genre it is actually rare to come across novels that treat Arthurian material from a humorous perspective.
- 2005, David Langford, The Sex Column and Other Misprints, page 231:
- I plugged Susanna Clarke's debut fantasy Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and read from James Branch Cabell's The Music from Behind the Moon (1926), which weirdly anticipates the Pratchettian common-sense solution to fairytale dilemmas.