Terry Pratchett's Discworld is coming to Cork
A celebration of the fantastical world created by the late Terry Pratchett, the four-day convention will feature everything from the launch of a special boardgame — Clacks from Backspindle Games — to a Maskerade Ball. This is the first convention since Terry Pratchett’s death in March, and is the first ever one in Cork — fans are coming from Britain, Belgium, Germany, America and even all the way from New Zealand.
Terry Pratchett wrote a Discworld series of 41 novels which are wild and witty rampages through a fantasy world populated by wizards, witches, trolls and vampires and Death himself. Despite, or perhaps because of, these characters, the Discworld bears an uncanny resemblance to our own world — whether it’s a bureaucrat’s love of memos and meetings or some people’s unwavering faith in the goodness of ‘herbs’ to cure anything at all. Politicians, socialites, clock-watching workers, and fast-food vendors invariably interact in a way that veers from laugh-out-loud funny to tear-jerking in the space of a couple of pages.
