The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
 Collector's Library edition, 2022 | |
| Author | Terry Pratchett |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Tony Robinson (abridged); Stephen Briggs (unabridged) Ariyon Bakare (new) |
| Cover artist | Paul Kidby |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
| Series | Discworld |
Release number | 28 |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 2001-11-01 |
| Preceded by | The Last Hero |
| Followed by | Night Watch |
For the animated film adaptation, see The Amazing Maurice.
Blurb
Maurice, a streetwise tomcat, has the perfect money-making scam. Everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers, and Maurice has a stupid-looking kid with a pipe, and his very own plague of rats - strangely educated rats...
But in Bad Blintz, the little con suddenly goes down the drain. For someone there is playing a different tune and now the rats must learn a new word.
EVIL.
It's not a game any more. It's a rat-eat-rat world. And that might only be the start...
Podcast episodes
Major appearances
These are episodes primarily devoted to discussing this book.
| Date | Show | Episode | External link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-08-14 | Radio Morpork | "Puss in Cahoots" | radiomorpork.wordpress.com |
| 2020-07-08 | Pratchat | "Cat, Rats and Two Meddling Kids" | pratchatpodcast.com |
| 2020-12-15 | The Death of Podcasts | “The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents” | aalgar.com |
| 2021-06-28 | Wyrd Sisters | “The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents” | wyrdsisters.podbean.com |
| 2021-11-21 | Desert Island Discworld | "Erica Henderson and The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents" | desertislanddiscworld.com |
| 2022-04-25 | The Compleat Discography | “The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents” | compleatdiscography.page |
| 2022-04-28 | The Compleat Discography | "The Amazing Maurice part 2" | compleatdiscography.page |
| 2022-12-05 | The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret | "Butter Beans & Instant Oodles" (1/3) | thetruthshallmakeyefret.com |
| 2022-12-12 | The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret | "Narratively Satisfying Lever" (2/3) | thetruthshallmakeyefret.com |
| 2022-12-19 | The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret | “Rat King Roomba" (3/3) | thetruthshallmakeyefret.com |
| 2023-02-10 | Nanny Ogg's Book Club | “The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents” | fireside.fm |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-12-01 | The Pratchett Podcast | “EPISODE48” | app.talkshoe.com |
Adaptations
- The Amazing Maurice is an animated movie - and the first feature film adaptation of a Pratchett work - released in December 2022 (later in Australia, the US and some other territories).
- The BBC produced a two-part full-cast radio adaptation in 2003. Notably this featured David Tennant as Dangerous Beans, a role he also plays in the feature film. Michael Fenton Stevens, famously part of the cast of Spitting Image’' and reader of the audiobooks of The Long Earth series and Science of Discworld books, also appears in two roles.
- The Penguin audiobook is read by Ariyon Bakare, who plays Darktan in the film.
- The book was adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs, and as a stage musical for schools by Matthew Holmes.
External links
- The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents at the L-Space Wiki
- The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents on Wikipedia