Connections
Mar. 28th, 2020 11:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowI mentioned that I was rereading the half-dozen Discworld novels that followed _The Fifth Elephant_, and that I felt they were connected. I just finished _Night Watch_, and noticed two internal connections I hadn't realized before.
The event that threw Vimes and Carcer back in time almost has to be the catastrophe at the center of _Thief of Time_. So here's a plot connection between books belonging to different subseries.
Also, there's a discussion of foreign affairs early on involving Vimes and, I think, Vetinari, concerning the possibility of war between a couple of small countries - the same two countries that actually did go to war in _Monstrous Regiment_ - a standalone, though Vimes and some other Watchmen, and also William de Worde (from _Truth_), put in cameos.
These aren't tight connections, but plot connections between different subseries or standalones are pretty rare in Pratchett, so these interested me.
The event that threw Vimes and Carcer back in time almost has to be the catastrophe at the center of _Thief of Time_. So here's a plot connection between books belonging to different subseries.
Also, there's a discussion of foreign affairs early on involving Vimes and, I think, Vetinari, concerning the possibility of war between a couple of small countries - the same two countries that actually did go to war in _Monstrous Regiment_ - a standalone, though Vimes and some other Watchmen, and also William de Worde (from _Truth_), put in cameos.
These aren't tight connections, but plot connections between different subseries or standalones are pretty rare in Pratchett, so these interested me.
