Tag: Terry Pratchett

• The big lie of social justice

  One of my personal holiday traditions involves reading Terry Pratchett’s novel Hogfather. Strictly speaking, Hogfather is a Christmas book: the Hogfather of the title is the Santa Claus/Father Christmas figure in Pratchett’s imaginary flat planet Discworld, and the Hogswatchnight festival plays the role of Christmas. As usual with Pratchett, the story is wide-ranging and hard to…

  Matthew R. Francis

  December 16, 2015

  General Science, Society

  Hogfather, how science works, racism, sexism, social justice, Terry Pratchett