Now together all three go on a wacky journey through time and space, that is going to teach Eric to be careful what you wish for! However instead of the powerful demon, Eric conjures Rincewind, a hopeless wizard whose incompetence is matched only by Eric’s, and his extremely intractable travel companion: the Luggage – Both of which have been running around the space between life and death, since their last adventure in Sourcery, causing havoc and weird phenomenon for the wizards of Unseen University and the denizens of Ankh Morpork. All pubescent Eric wanted was to summon a tractable demon, sell his soul and get his three wishes: to live forever, to rule the world, and have the most beautiful woman in the world fall madly in love with him. In this snappy instalment, we return to the weird and wonderful Discworld to be introduced to its one and only demonology hacker and would-be Faust… Pity that he is actually only a spotty youth called Eric and not very good at this demonology lark either.

The next Discworld adventure up on my to-be-read shelf was Eric, which is the ninth book in Pratchett’s fantastical series, originally published in 1990 as a “Discworld story”, in a larger format and illustrated by Josh Kirby, hence its very short length compared to other instalments in the series.

At the very end of February, I managed to sneak in a little more Terry Pratchett fun, quite literally on the last day of the month.

Eric by Terry Pratchett