Discworlder

English

Etymology

From Discworld +‎ -er, from disc + world.

Noun

Discworlder (plural Discworlders)

1. An inhabitant of the Discworld from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld fantasy novels.
   • 1999, New Scientist, volume 163, page 48, column 2:

     To Discworlders steeped in magic, the science of Roundworld—our science—did not always look as alien as you’d imagine.

   • 1999 November, Bette D. Ammon, “SOUL MUSIC. (A Discworld novel.) Terry Pratchett. 1994/1996. ISIS Audio Books. Read by Nigel Planer. […]”, in Kliatt, volume 33, number 6, page 58, column 3:

     His various voices and accents range from exaggerated Cockney to raspy utterances to adenoidal inflections, and Planer zips effortlessly from Discworlder to Discworlder with aplomb.

   • 2011, Peter J[ames] Carroll, The Octavo (Roundworld Edition): A Sorcerer-Scientist’s Grimoire, Mandrake of Oxford, →ISBN, page 83:

     Now Discworlders use peculiar units, the appearance of a small white goose or three billiard balls for the Thaum, and the movement of a pound of lead one foot for the Prime.

   • 2016, Christopher Ketcham, “The Alchemy of Flat Worlds”, in Nicolas Michaud, editor, Discworld and Philosophy: Reality Is Not What It Seems (Popular Culture and Philosophy), Open Court Publishing Company, →ISBN:

     Geometry to Flatlanders is as important as magic is to Discworlders. […] Flatlanders favor string theory and Discworlders favor loop quantum gravity as the way to tie the theories of Einstein and quantum mechanics together. […] Discworlders, on the other hand, favor telling the story of loop quantum gravity first because, like Einstein they are enamored with storytelling, and, second; the minuscule but discrete quantum of loop quantum gravity and spin networks are as mysterious as their thaum.

   • 2019, Joseph Rex Young, George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature), Routledge, →ISBN:

     In trying to be glamorous, the less astute Discworlders merely end up grubby – alazons open to criticism by their intellectual betters both inside and outside the text. […] At the climaxes of their stories, Discworlders often find themselves in supernatural situations which Pratchett keeps largely free of bathos.

   • 2021, Stephen Briggs, The Shakespeare Codex, Methuen Drama, →ISBN, page 60:

     And one of the Discworlders was carrying these?

Related terms

• Discworldian