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Podcast: Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book club
Episode: The Barbarian Switch (âFinal Rewardâ)
Description: We explore every authorâs worst nightmare as writer Penny Love returns to Pratchat and finds the barrier between reality and fiction getting all wibbly-wobbly in Terry Pratchettâs 1988 short story, âFinal Rewardâ.
After a particularly bad row with his girlfriend Nicky â and a pint of wine â author Kevin Dogger decides to kill off the protagonist of his best-selling fantasy series. The next morning, Erdan the Barbarian appears on Doggerâs doorstep with the milk. He was, after all, promised a final reward: an eternity of carousing in the halls of his creatorâŚ
Content note: the story âFinal...