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“Small Gods is about how pure faith can be warped by fundamentalism and dogma. How powerful people use religion to control people who don’t have power. It’s the first of the Discworld books that really has something to say. It’s very disconnected from the other Discworld narratives. There’s a wonderful, typically Pratchett-y twist in that, in this religion, they believe the world is round—a reversal of classic Flat Earth-dogma, because they do live in a flat world but their religion insists that the world is round and tries to stamp out the movement of people who correctly assert that it’s a flat planet on the back of elephants on the back of a turtle.” Read more...
The Best Terry Pratchett Books
Marc Burrows, Biographer
“In Discworld, Pratchett has set up a world where the power of faith is something that humans have but don’t fully understand, and it can literally create things. So the gods in Discworld are a function of the strength of the belief of their followers. This is a beautiful, crazy concept, and Discworld is full of these beautiful, crazy concepts. And yet, it’s not that farfetched, because when you have a particular format in which you squeeze your idea of deity, the larger the church or the religion, the more you are able to continue to perpetuate and enforce it. So it’s not coming out of nowhere.” Read more...
The Best Speculative Fiction About Gods and Godlike Beings
Karen Lord, Novelist
