Discworld - All Just a Dream

So take "A Midsummer Night's Dream", then interleave a reverse of "The Taming of the Shrew", then add in the characters of the Discworld, and look at things through the lens of Pratchett's mind.  That is Lord and Ladies.

I can remember buying this book and the next one (Men at Arms) at Tower books.  And they were expensive, because they were the version from England.  In a mass-market paperback size, they were $10 or $11 each.  And this was in 1993.

But they were so worth the price.  I got so much pleasure reading them and getting the next installment of both the Witches and the Watch.

This is a pretty big "crossover" kind of book with known characters from Unseen University meeting the people of Lancre.  And lots of little bits get mentioned in conversations.  Again it's refreshing that characters have memories and history.  Up until reading this, the only shared universe in fiction that I read was in comics.  Sure I read Larry Niven, but his main characters came from such different time periods that they hardly ever met.

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Appearing in this book:

"A Wizards Staff Has a Knob on the End"
"Millennium Hand and Shrimp"
"Pull the other one..."

"The Hedgehog Song"

Agnes "Perdita" Nitt

Ankh-Morpork

Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully
Archchancellor (Galder) Weatherwax
Archchancellor (Greyhald) "Tudgy" Spold

Baker the Weaver

Bestiality Carter

Black Aliss

Bows and Ammo
Cabbages

Carpenter the Poacher

Carter the Baker

Casanunda

Dried Frog Pills

Elves

Eyes like Gimlet

Genghiz Cohen
Granny Esmerelda Weatherwax

Granny's Rag Rug from the Smith in Bad Ass

Greebo

Herne the Hunted

High Energy Magic Building

Hodgesaargh

Hwel, Tomjon, and Vittoler's men - The Dysk

Ironfounderson the Dwarf

Jason Ogg

King Verence II

Lancre

Lucy "Diamanda" Tockley

Magrat Garlick

Millie Chillum

Millie Hopwood
Mr. Brooks the Beekeeper

Mr. Ixiolite the Banshee
Mr. Spriggins the Butler

Mrs. Scorbic the Cook

Nanny Gytha Ogg
Nanny Gripes

Nanny's Still

Obidiah Carpenter the Tailor

Octarine Grass Country

Old Poorchick and his cow
Oggham
"Personal isn't the same as important."

Pewsey Ogg

Ponder Stibbons - The Reader in Invisible Writings

Quantum

Queen Ynci
Scumble

Sean Ogg

Slice and the Place Where the Sun Doesn't Shine
Scumble

Sto Helit

Sto Lat

Strict Offlians (Offler, the Crocodile-Headed God)

Tailor the Other Weaver

Thatcher the Carter

The Archchancellor's Hat
The Bursar

The Dean

The Green-Purple Wobbly Bit
The Hi Ho Song
The Lancre Morris Dancers

The Lecturer in Recent Runes

The Librarian

The Queen of the Elves (Fairies)

The Single Standing Stone
The Stick and Bucket Dance

The Things from the Dungeon Dimensions

The Tooth Fairy

The Trousers of Time

The Vampire Queen of Lancre
Tinker the Tinker

Twurp's Peerage

Unseen University

Violet Frottidge
Weaver the Thatcher