Discworld (world)

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Discworld
The Discworld as it appears in the SkyOne adaptation of The Colour of Magic
First appearance	The Colour of Magic (24 November 1983 (1983-11-24))
Created by	Terry Pratchett

The Discworld is the fictional world where English writer Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld fantasy novels take place. It consists of an interstellar planet-sized disc, which sits on the backs of four huge elephants, themselves standing on the back of a world turtle, named Great A'Tuin, as it slowly swims through space.

The Disc is the setting for all forty-one Discworld novels; it was influenced by world religions which feature human worlds resting on turtles, as a setting to reflect situations on Earth, in a humorous way. The Discworld is peopled mostly by the three main races of men, dwarfs and trolls. As the novels progress, other lesser known races are included, such as dragons, elves, goblins and pixies.

Pratchett first explored the idea of a disc-shaped world in the novel Strata (1981).