HE WAS THE EIGHTH SON OF AN EIGHTH SON...

Coin's father was a wizard who'd been drummed out of the Unseen University for the unthinkable, unmagical crime of getting married and having eight kids. Everyone knows that the eighth son of the eighth son who was himself a wizard would become that legendary being--a sourcerer!

Of course, all that had happened when Coin was just a baby. Now about ten years old, he was old enough to take over the world. The only things in his way besides the Archancellor's hat, were Rincewind, The Inept; Conina, the beautiful barbarian hairdresser; the Luggage; and Nijel, the underweight hero. Well, all good things have to come to an end sooner or later, and it looked like this just might be the proverbial End of the World....

Sourcery, a hilarious mix of magic, mayhem, and Luggage, is the fifth book in Terry Pratchett's classic fantasy Discworld series.

Rincewind, the legendarily inept wizard, has returned after falling off the edge of the world. And this time, he’s brought the Luggage. But that’s not all… Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that wasn’t complicated enough, said wizard then had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son — a wizard squared (that’s all the math, really). Who of course, was a source of magic — a sourcerer.

Will the sourcerer lead the wizards to dominate all of Discworld? Or can Rincewind’s tiny band stave off the Apocalypse?

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