- Newport, the county seat of Pend Oreille County, is roughly 45 miles north of Spokane on the bank of the Pend Oreille River. The area is still the home of the Kalispel Indians, with human habitation going back some 10,000 years. David Thompson (1770-1857), North West Company fur trader and explorer, passed through the present Newport area in 1809 and 1810…
- The Colour of Magic (allthetropes.org)
The very first Discworld novel, from 1983. Unlike most of the later ones, The Colour of Magic was primarily a vehicle for Terry Pratchett to directly mock, play with and deconstruct other fantasy series, rather than the much broader field of his later work. Introduced his interest in using nuclear physics (his previous area of expertise as a scientific journalist) as a metaphor and parody for how magic works.