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| author = Terry Pratchett | | author = Terry Pratchett | ||
| audio_read_by = Tony Robinson ( | | audio_read_by = Tony Robinson (Corgi)<br/>Nigel Planer (Isis)<br/>Alfred Enoch (Penguin) | ||
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{{P}} is the seventh Discworld book, a standalone story introducing Pteppic, a new graduate of the Assassin’s Guild in Ankh-Morpork and heir to the throne of the kingdom of Djelibeybi. Unusually for the series it is divided into four “books”. The first book, “The Book of Going Forth”, primarily chronicles Pteppic’s final exam at the Guild, with flashbacks of his time as a student, in a fairly direct fantasy parody of ''[[wikipedia:Tom Brown's School Days|Tom Brown’s School Days]]'' and British boarding school fiction more generally. | |||
== Blurb == | == Blurb == | ||
‘Look after the dead’, said the priests, ‘and the dead will look after you.’ | |||
Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when, like Pteppic, you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country rather earlier than expected. It’s hard to fulfil your obligations to the ancestors with a depleted treasury that is unlikely to stretch to the building of a monumental pyramid to honour your dead father. | |||
He’d had the best education money could buy of course, but unfortunately the syllabus at the Assassins’ Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not cover running a kingdom and basic financial acumen… | |||
== Podcast episodes == | == Podcast episodes == | ||
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| 2012-05-13 || {{TTM}} || ''Unknown'' || N/A | | 2012-05-13 || {{TTM}} || ''Unknown'' || N/A | ||
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| 2015-11-08 || {{RMP}} || | | 2015-11-08 || {{RMP}} || “An Assassin's Creed” || [https://radiomorpork.wordpress.com/2015/11/08/pyramids-an-assassins-creed/ radiomorpork.wordpress.com] | ||
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| 2018-03-08 || {{PC}} || “Ten Points to Viper House” || [http://pratchatpodcast.com/2018/03/08/episode-5-ten-points-to-viper-house/ pratchatpodcast.com] | |||
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| 2019-05-15 || {{DOP}} || {{P|ep}} || [https://sites.google.com/view/aalgarcom/content/death-of-podcasts#h.p_WVvDYW1qNVry aalgar.com] | |||
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| 2019-08-28 || {{WSP}} || {{P|ep}} || [https://wyrdsisters.podbean.com/e/wsp-wyrd-sisters/ wyrdsisters.podbean.com] | |||
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| 2019-12-08 || {{DID}} || “Alan Trotter and Pyramids” || [https://www.desertislanddiscworld.com/episodes/1-3-alan-trotter-and-pyramids/ desertislanddiscworld.com] | |||
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| 2020-06-07 || {{MYF}} || “Not For Internal Use” (1/3) || [https://thetruthshallmakeyefret.com/2020/06/07/e23-not-for-internal-use/ thetruthshallmakeyefret.com] | |||
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| 2020-06-14 || {{MYF}} || “That Won't Keep My Pyramids Flaring” (2/3) || [https://thetruthshallmakeyefret.com/2020/06/14/e24-that-wont-keep-my-pyramids-flaring/ thetruthshallmakeyefret.com] | |||
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| | | 2020-06-21 || {{MYF}} || “Allegory, And This Time I Mean It” (3/3) || [https://thetruthshallmakeyefret.com/2020/06/21/e25-allegory-and-this-time-i-mean-it/ thetruthshallmakeyefret.com] | ||
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| | | 2020-06-24 || {{TCD}} || {{P|ep}} || [https://compleatdiscography.page/episode/fa52ad46/pyramids compleatdiscography.page] | ||
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| | | 2020-09-18 || {{WWTW}} || “Snake House” (1/3) || [https://who-watches-the-watch.pinecast.co/episode/6a859ab9d04448c7/snake-house-pyramids-pt-1- pinecast.co] | ||
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| | | 2020-09-26 || {{WWTW}} || “Wet Arse Pyramids” (2/3) || [https://who-watches-the-watch.pinecast.co/episode/0701acdb499b4f39/wet-arse-pyramids-pyramids-pt-2- pinecast.co] | ||
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| 2020- | | 2020-10-03 || {{WWTW}} || “History is Just Father Issues” (3/3) || [https://who-watches-the-watch.pinecast.co/episode/70e879c41e2b4049/history-is-just-father-issues-pyramids-pt-3- pinecast.co] | ||
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| | | 2021-07-26 || {{DCP}} || {{P|ep}} || [https://anchor.fm/discpod/episodes/07-Pyramids-e150nl2 anchor.fm] | ||
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| | | 2021-09-26 || {{SOA}} || “Discworld Book Seven” || [https://stuckonarrakis.buzzsprout.com/209222/9262416-discworld-book-seven-pyramids-by-terry-pratchett-featuring-anna buzzsprout.com] | ||
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| | | 2021-10-13 || {{TDC}} || “Dad I'd Like to Pity” (1/6) || [https://shows.acast.com/the-disc-course/episodes/episode-27-dad-id-like-to-pity shows.acast.com] | ||
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| | | 2021-10-27 || {{TDC}} || “Spend Less on Pyramids” (2/6) || [https://shows.acast.com/the-disc-course/episodes/episode-28-spend-less-on-pyramids shows.acast.com] | ||
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| | | 2021-11-10 || {{TDC}} || “Fine Counterweight Continent” (3/6) || [https://shows.acast.com/the-disc-course/episodes/episode-29-fine-counterweight-continent shows.acast.com] | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | 2021-11-24 || {{TDC}} || “Introducing Topics of Amusing Discourse” (4/6) || [https://shows.acast.com/the-disc-course/episodes/episode-30-introducing-topics-of-amusing-discourse shows.acast.com] | ||
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| 2021- | | 2021-12-08 || {{TDC}} || “The Kingdom Owners’ Association” (5/6) || [https://shows.acast.com/the-disc-course/episodes/episode-31-the-kingdom-owners-association shows.acast.com] | ||
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| 2021- | | 2021-12-22 || {{TDC}} || “Afterlife of the Author” (6/6) || [https://shows.acast.com/the-disc-course/episodes/episode-32-afterlife-of-the-author shows.acast.com] | ||
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| 2021- | | 2021-12-08 || {{NOBC}} || {{P|ep}} || [https://nannyoggsbookclub.fireside.fm/6 fireside.fm] | ||
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| | | 2023-01-03 || {{BTB}} || “Pyramids - Discworld 7” || [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1728184/11949272-episode-54-pyramids-discworld-7 buzzsprout.com] | ||
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| | | 2023-04-03 || {{NRD}} || “Book 7. Pyramids” || [https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/iveneverreaddiscworld/episodes/Book-7--Pyramids-e21lcr2 spotify.com] | ||
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| | | 2024-02-17 || {{UAP}} || “Pyramids, Part 1: Progress and Prejudice” (1/3) || [https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unseenacademicals/episodes/14A--Pyramids--Part-1-Progress-and-Prejudice-e2ft9ku spotify.com] | ||
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| | | 2024-03-07 || {{UAP}} || “Pyramids, Part 2a: Mummy Madness” (2/3) || [https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unseenacademicals/episodes/14B--Pyramids--Part-2a-Mummy-Madness-e2goopm spotify.com] | ||
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| | | 2024-04-04 || {{UAP}} || “Pyramids, Part 2b: Egyptian Representations” (3/3) || [https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unseenacademicals/episodes/14C--Pyramids--Part-2b-Egyptian-Representations-e2hvb2f spotify.com] | ||
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| | | 2024-05-23 || {{DTD}} || {{P|ep}} || [https://diningtablediscworld.podbean.com/e/dining-table-discworld-pyramids/ podbean.com] | ||
|} | |} | ||
=== Other appearances === | === Other appearances === | ||
'' | Episodes where there's significant discussion of the book, but it's not the focus of the episode. | ||
{| class="wikitable sortable" | |||
! Date !! Show !! Episode !! External link | |||
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| 2012-12-18 || {{TPP}} || “The Pratchett Podcast Episode 14”<ref>This episode also includes co-host Rhys's thoughts on {{S}}, having missed the deadline to read it for the previous episode.</ref> || [https://thepratchettpodcast.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/the-pratchett-podcast-episode-14/ thepratchettpodcast.wordpress.com]<ref name="earlyTPP">Post with info only; audio no longer available.</ref> | |||
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| 2021-08-05 || {{FF}} || “Smuggler's Fortune & Pyramids” || [https://www.fictionfanspodcast.com/episodes/episode/4d4ace20/smugglers-fortune-and-pyramids fictionfanspodcast.com] | |||
|} | |||
== Adaptations == | == Adaptations == | ||
'' | There have been three [[audiobook]] versions of ''Pyramids'': the abridged Corgi audiobook read by [[Tony Robinson]], the unabridged Isis audiobook read by [[Nigel Planer]], and the Penguin audiobook, also unabridged, read by [[Alfred Enoch]]. | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
* {{P|ls}} at the L-Space Wiki | * {{P|ls}} at the L-Space Wiki | ||
* {{P|w}} on Wikipedia | * {{P|w}} on Wikipedia | ||
* {{P|cs}} at colinsmythe.co.uk | |||
== Footnotes == | == Footnotes == | ||
Latest revision as of 06:24, 28 May 2024
 2023 Penguin paperback, cover design by Leo Nickolls | |
| Author | Terry Pratchett |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Tony Robinson (Corgi) Nigel Planer (Isis) Alfred Enoch (Penguin) |
| Cover artist | Josh Kirby |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
| Series | Discworld |
Release number | 7 |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Gollancz/Corgi |
Publication date | 1989-06-15 |
| Preceded by | Wyrd Sisters |
| Followed by | Guards! Guards! |
Pyramids is the seventh Discworld book, a standalone story introducing Pteppic, a new graduate of the Assassin’s Guild in Ankh-Morpork and heir to the throne of the kingdom of Djelibeybi. Unusually for the series it is divided into four “books”. The first book, “The Book of Going Forth”, primarily chronicles Pteppic’s final exam at the Guild, with flashbacks of his time as a student, in a fairly direct fantasy parody of Tom Brown’s School Days and British boarding school fiction more generally.
Blurb
‘Look after the dead’, said the priests, ‘and the dead will look after you.’
Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when, like Pteppic, you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country rather earlier than expected. It’s hard to fulfil your obligations to the ancestors with a depleted treasury that is unlikely to stretch to the building of a monumental pyramid to honour your dead father.
He’d had the best education money could buy of course, but unfortunately the syllabus at the Assassins’ Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not cover running a kingdom and basic financial acumen…
Podcast episodes
Major appearances
These are episodes primarily devoted to discussing this book.
| Date | Show | Episode | External link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-05-13 | The Turtle Moves | Unknown | N/A |
| 2015-11-08 | Radio Morpork | “An Assassin's Creed” | radiomorpork.wordpress.com |
| 2018-03-08 | Pratchat | “Ten Points to Viper House” | pratchatpodcast.com |
| 2019-05-15 | The Death of Podcasts | “Pyramids” | aalgar.com |
| 2019-08-28 | Wyrd Sisters | “Pyramids” | wyrdsisters.podbean.com |
| 2019-12-08 | Desert Island Discworld | “Alan Trotter and Pyramids” | desertislanddiscworld.com |
| 2020-06-07 | The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret | “Not For Internal Use” (1/3) | thetruthshallmakeyefret.com |
| 2020-06-14 | The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret | “That Won't Keep My Pyramids Flaring” (2/3) | thetruthshallmakeyefret.com |
| 2020-06-21 | The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret | “Allegory, And This Time I Mean It” (3/3) | thetruthshallmakeyefret.com |
| 2020-06-24 | The Compleat Discography | “Pyramids” | compleatdiscography.page |
| 2020-09-18 | Who Watches the Watch | “Snake House” (1/3) | pinecast.co |
| 2020-09-26 | Who Watches the Watch | “Wet Arse Pyramids” (2/3) | pinecast.co |
| 2020-10-03 | Who Watches the Watch | “History is Just Father Issues” (3/3) | pinecast.co |
| 2021-07-26 | Disc Coverers | “Pyramids” | anchor.fm |
| 2021-09-26 | Stuck on Arrakis | “Discworld Book Seven” | buzzsprout.com |
| 2021-10-13 | The Disc-Course | “Dad I'd Like to Pity” (1/6) | shows.acast.com |
| 2021-10-27 | The Disc-Course | “Spend Less on Pyramids” (2/6) | shows.acast.com |
| 2021-11-10 | The Disc-Course | “Fine Counterweight Continent” (3/6) | shows.acast.com |
| 2021-11-24 | The Disc-Course | “Introducing Topics of Amusing Discourse” (4/6) | shows.acast.com |
| 2021-12-08 | The Disc-Course | “The Kingdom Owners’ Association” (5/6) | shows.acast.com |
| 2021-12-22 | The Disc-Course | “Afterlife of the Author” (6/6) | shows.acast.com |
| 2021-12-08 | Nanny Ogg's Book Club | “Pyramids” | fireside.fm |
| 2023-01-03 | Beyond the Bindings | “Pyramids - Discworld 7” | buzzsprout.com |
| 2023-04-03 | I’ve Never Read Discworld | “Book 7. Pyramids” | spotify.com |
| 2024-02-17 | Unseen Academicals | “Pyramids, Part 1: Progress and Prejudice” (1/3) | spotify.com |
| 2024-03-07 | Unseen Academicals | “Pyramids, Part 2a: Mummy Madness” (2/3) | spotify.com |
| 2024-04-04 | Unseen Academicals | “Pyramids, Part 2b: Egyptian Representations” (3/3) | spotify.com |
| 2024-05-23 | Dining Table Discworld | “Pyramids” | podbean.com |
Other appearances
Episodes where there's significant discussion of the book, but it's not the focus of the episode.
| Date | Show | Episode | External link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-12-18 | The Pratchett Podcast | “The Pratchett Podcast Episode 14”[1] | thepratchettpodcast.wordpress.com[2] |
| 2021-08-05 | Fiction Fans | “Smuggler's Fortune & Pyramids” | fictionfanspodcast.com |
Adaptations
There have been three audiobook versions of Pyramids: the abridged Corgi audiobook read by Tony Robinson, the unabridged Isis audiobook read by Nigel Planer, and the Penguin audiobook, also unabridged, read by Alfred Enoch.