Terry Pratchett's Ethical Worlds

Kristin Noone is an English instructor and Writing Center faculty at Irvine Valley College in Southern California. Her research explores medievalism, adaptation, fantasy, and romance. She has published on subjects from Neil Gaiman's many Beowulfs to depictions of witchcraft in Terry Pratchett's Discworld to Arthurian references in World of Warcraft. She is also a published author of romance and fantasy fiction. Emily Lavin Leverett is a professor of English at Methodist University in Fayetteville North Carolina. With her primary focus as Medieval English Romancetales of adventure, magic, chivalry, faith, and fantasy, she also studies medievalism, the ways that the romances of medieval Britain have made their way into contemporary arts, specifically English author Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.

Introduction: Terry Pratchett's Ethical Worlds Kristin Noone and Emily Lavin Leverett Something That Gods Are: Acts of Creation in Terry Pratchett's Early Science Fiction Kristin Noone Conan the Nonagenarian: Beyond Hyborian Hypermasculinity with Terry Pratchett's Cohen the Barbarian Mike Perschon Carrot Ironfoundersson: Medieval Romance, Narrative Causality and the Ethics of Choice in Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards! Emily Lavin Leverett Self-Discovery, Free Will and Change: The Ethics of Growing Up in the Fantasy Novels of Terry Pratchett Kathleen Burt The Anglo-Saxon lf: Old English Influences in Terry Pratchett's The Wee Free Men and The Shepherd's Crown Livia Bongiovanni Constructing Identity Through Language in Discworld Elise A. Bell Rhetoricity of Discworld: Magic and the Ethics of Footnotes Amy Lea Clemons The Golempunk Manifesto: Ownership of the Means of Production in Pratchett's Discworld Janet Brennan Croft Neomedievalism and the Ethics of Colonization in Pratchett and Baxter's The Long Earth and The Long War Sadie E. Hash Appendix: Works and Adaptations About the Contributors Index