Series
The Carpet People
Terry Pratchett · 2 novels · 2 novelettes · 1971–2014
The Carpet People imagines an entire civilization of tiny peoples living among the towering fibers of a carpet, where different tribes must set aside old rivalries and unite against a shared threat sweeping through their world. Terry Pratchett wrote the original version at seventeen, then substantially rewrote it in 1992, famously noting that the book 'had two authors, and they were both the same person.' It reads as an early, more straightforward dry run for the comic invention Pratchett would later bring to Discworld.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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The Carpet People at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 1970s1
- 1980s0
- 1990s1
- 2000s0
- 2010s2
Shape
2 novels · 2 novelettes
1 author · completed series
reads like:fantasywarsecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedfunny
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Carpet Peopledarkest · most intense
- The Carpet Peoplebrightest · calmest