The Last Continent (1998)
The Last Continent is a 1998 fiction book written by Terry Pratchett.
Rincewind, the Disc's least competent wizard, washes up on Fourecks, a red and dusty continent where it never rains and the wildlife would cheerfully kill you for sport. Back at Unseen University, a professor has gone missing, and a search party of elderly, bickering senior wizards sets off to find him, blundering across time and geography along the way. Terry Pratchett's twenty-second Discworld novel turns Australia into one long running joke: warm beer, thongs, bushrangers, a talking kangaroo, and the strange business of what happens when the rivers finally fill with water.
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What is The Last Continent about?
Rincewind, the Disc's least competent wizard, washes up on Fourecks, a red and dusty continent where it never rains and the wildlife would cheerfully kill you for sport. Back at Unseen University, a professor has gone missing, and a search party of elderly, bickering senior wizards sets off to find him, blundering across time and geography along the way. Terry Pratchett's twenty-second Discworld novel turns Australia into one long running joke: warm beer, thongs, bushrangers, a talking kangaroo, and the strange business of what happens when the rivers finally fill with water.
When was The Last Continent published?
The Last Continent was published in 1998.
Who made The Last Continent?
The Last Continent was written by Terry Pratchett.
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A few thoughts on The Last Continent
Fans of Terry Pratchett's deadpan absurdity should track down the 1995 Discworld point-and-click game, which runs Rincewind through the same slapstick logic. For the sunburnt outback lunacy the book keeps ribbing, Crocodile Dundee and the Mad Max films are the exact targets of its parody, worth a rewatch to catch every joke.