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#24: Eric by Terry Pratchett. Eric is a rich man’s spoiled son, playing around with summoning demon the way a modern nerd might play around with hacking networks, because he’s bored and wants to live forever, world domination and a gorgeous chick with boobs. Eric somehow manages to summon Rincewind, a wizard who was trapped in an adjacent dimension (and who featured in earlier Discworld books as the wizard famed for his practical cowardice, and whose lack of talents and desire to be happily bored was thwarted by being adopted by sentient luggage and accidentally falling in with companions who led “interesting” lives). Rincewind is very surprised to be trapped in a magical circle and even more surprised when, having agreed to attempt to fulfill the brat’s wishes, snaps his fingers and finds they’ve traveled to the beginning of Time (because if you’re going to live forever, you have to start from the moment the world was created). Yes, there are two more finger snaps, and two more worlds and no, Rincewind didn’t suddenly become magically powerful, he’s just being used by a demon with an ulterior motive.
On the whole, it was a satisfying short story, but not enough Luggage in the story.
On the whole, it was a satisfying short story, but not enough Luggage in the story.
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