# What Should The Next Discworld be about? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 15, 2005, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-next-discworld-be-about/290214 "2005-02-15T16:45:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-next-discworld-be-about/290214/101 "2005-02-18T20:00:48Z")
> [@WotNot](#): > > No, you’re quite right. No sport. It is a silly idea. Ook! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-next-discworld-be-about/290214/102 "2005-02-18T20:13:48Z")
> [@WotNot](#): > > (and fear your fishy wrath) I’m not sure what to make of this comment! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-next-discworld-be-about/290214/103 "2005-02-18T20:14:17Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Ook! 😃 Really? Oh well, you may be right. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-next-discworld-be-about/290214/104 "2005-02-18T20:16:25Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I’m not sure what to make of this comment! 😛 Merely a reference to the piscine punishment previously perpetrated. What else? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-next-discworld-be-about/290214/105 "2005-02-18T20:17:07Z")
> [@WotNot](#): > > Merely a reference to the piscine punishment previously perpetrated. > > What else? I know, it just \*sounds \* really odd. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-next-discworld-be-about/290214/106 "2005-02-18T20:56:16Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > ::slaps BrainGlutton with a cold fish:: Hey, maybe there should be a Discworld book about cold fish! 🙂 No, wait . . . we’ve already go Susan Sto Helit . . . ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-next-discworld-be-about/290214/107 "2005-02-18T21:01:14Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Hey, maybe there should be a Discworld book about cold fish! 🙂 > > No, wait . . . we’ve already go Susan Sto Helit . . . How true! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-next-discworld-be-about/290214/108 "2005-02-18T22:58:07Z")
Well Science of Discworld 3 will be out in May, about the same time as the third Tiffany outing. Thud will be out in Oct or Nov, and then there’s something called Wintersmith due. I’ll get my fix of faculty banter in SoDW 3, which makes me happy. I like Rincewind, but agree that there doesn’t seem to be a lot of milage left in his stories. However, letting him do a cameo a la Vimes would be fun. But Ridcully and the staff bickering is among the best comedy I’ve ever read. A trend over the last few books is that magic seems to be playing a less prominent roll. It’s there in the background, but not really center stage. I do miss Foul ol’ Ron and where is the amazing wonder dog Gaspode, dammit? While I’m sure it’d be fun to read Pterry making fun of sports, I don’t think cricket should be it, since a large part of his considerable international audience would understand the jokes. Maybe soccer / football, now that America seems to be warming up to it and understanding the game. I wouldn’t mind seeing him do something outside DW. It’s been a while. I wouldn’t be surprised if Terry lurks here. He’s a Straight Dope fan, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-next-discworld-be-about/290214/109 "2005-02-18T23:05:45Z")
would **not** understand… sheesh. Anybody found “Once More with Footnotes” which is some sort of collection? ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-next-discworld-be-about/290214/110 "2005-02-18T23:57:25Z")
> [@](#): > > Here’s an idea: someone is killing members of the Assassin’s Guild. After their own attempts to catch the perpetrator fail, and in danger of losing face, the Guild turns to the Watch. Vimes wants to tell the A.G. to go to hell, but Vetinari orders him to investigate. Was it in this thread or another that someone said that there have been no private detectives on discworld, yet. Maybe Vimes could end up competing with (or just having to put up with) one. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-next-discworld-be-about/290214/111 "2005-02-19T00:01:41Z")
> [@The Gaspode](#): > > Well Science of Discworld 3 will be out in May, about the same time as the third Tiffany outing. Thud will be out in Oct or Nov, and then there’s something called Wintersmith due. ‘Wintersmith’ _is_ the third Tiffany outing. And for the record, the fourth, and probably last, Tiffany book is already titled as ‘I Shall Wear Midnight’. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-next-discworld-be-about/290214/112 "2005-02-19T00:03:42Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Ok, I’ll only hit you with a herring, they’re small. But hard! They’re hard of herring! What? Eh? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-next-discworld-be-about/290214/113 "2005-02-19T00:25:16Z")
_groan_ **Bosda** , that was a worse pun than \*\*CandidGamera \*\* would have come up. And that’s saying a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Graycat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Graycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Graycat)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-next-discworld-be-about/290214/114 "2005-02-19T02:01:17Z")
> [@The Gaspode](#): > > would **not** understand… > > sheesh. > > Anybody found “Once More with Footnotes” which is some sort of collection? It was published by the New England Science Fiction Association press, as part of last year’s WORLDCON. It is available through the NESFA website. A lot of other good things there, too. Personally, I am willing to wait and see what the Marster comes up with. It’s always better than any ideas I have. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-the-next-discworld-be-about/290214.md?page=5)