Eric
 First edition cover by Josh Kirby | |
| Author | Terry Pratchett |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Tony Robinson (abridged) Stephen Briggs (unabridged) TBC (new) |
| Illustrator | Josh Kirby |
| Cover artist | Josh Kirby |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
| Series | Discworld |
Release number | 9 |
| Sub-series | Rincewind |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Gollancz/Corgi |
Publication date | 1990-08-16 |
| Preceded by | Guards! Guards! |
| Followed by | Moving Pictures |
Blurb
Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. Pity he's not very good at it.
All he wants is three wishes granted. Nothing fancy - to be immortal, rule the world, have the most beautiful woman in the world fall madly in love with him, the usual stuff. But instead of a tractable demon, he calls up Rincewind, probably the most incompetent wizard in the universe, and the extremely intractable and hostile form of travel accessory known as the Luggage.
With them on his side, Eric's in for a ride through space and time that is bound to make him wish (quite fervently) again - this time that he'd never been born.
Podcast episodes
Major appearances
These are episodes primarily devoted to discussing this book.
| Date | Show | Episode | External link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-07 | Radio Morpork | “Faustian Hack” | radiomorpork.wordpress.com |
| 2018-05-08 | Pratchat | “All the Fingle Ladies” | pratchatpodcast.com |
| 2019-07-15 | The Death of Podcasts | “Eric” | aalgar.com |
| 2019-10-28 | Wyrd Sisters | “Eric” | wyrdsisters.podbean.com |
| 2020-08-25 | The Compleat Discography | “Eric” | compleatdiscography.page |
| 2020-09-07 | The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret | “Corporate Nonsense Demon” (1/3) | thetruthshallmakeyefret.com |
| 2020-09-14 | The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret | “The Moustaches We Made Along The Way” (2/3) | thetruthshallmakeyefret.com |
| 2020-09-21 | The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret | “Not a Sandwich, But” (3/3) | thetruthshallmakeyefret.com |
| 2020-10-10 | Who Watches the Watch | “The Parody Redacted Episode” | pinecast.co |
| 2021-10-24 | Disc Coverers | “Eric” | anchor.fm |
| 2022-03-30 | Nanny Ogg's Book Club | “Eric” | fireside.fm |
| 2022-04-28 | The Disc-Course | “Schrodinger's Big Wife” (1/2) | acast.com |
| 2022-05-18 | The Disc-Course | “Disrupting the Damnation Industry” (2/2) | acast.com |
| 2023-02-07 | Beyond the Bindings | “Eric - Discworld 9” | buzzsprout.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-29 | Fiction Fans | “The Part About the Dragon Was (Mostly) True & Eric" | fictionfanspodcast.com |
Notes
- Originally published as a large-format illustrated book in collaboration with Josh Kirby, but reissued as a standard paperback the year after (1991) without the internal illustrations. A new smaller version of the illustrated novel was published in 2010, using the title The Illustrated Eric to differentiate it from the still in-print paperback.
Adaptations
- There have been three audiobook versions of Eric, read by Tony Robinson, Stephen Briggs and Colin Morgan. It’s the earliest of the Discworld novels to have a Stephen Briggs audiobook, as it was skipped by Isis Audio during the era in which Nigel Planer was narrating the unabridged versions.
- A radio adaptation was produced by the BBC, directed by Joquil Panting with a script in four parts by with a script by Robin Brooks. It was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2013 and starred Mark Heap (who also played Aziraphale on radio) as Rincewind.