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The Last Continent is the twenty-second novel in the Discworld series, and the sixth to feature Rincewind. The title of this book was inspired by the phrase "May you live in interesting times". It parodies Australian people and culture, as well as the famous Crocodile Dundee and Mad Max movies and the popular Australian song Waltzing Matilda.
The story opens years after the events of Interesting Times, in which Rincewind was magically transported to the forsaken continent of XXXX due to a miscalculation made by the Unseen University wizards. Rincewind has been surviving by falling in water holes, looking for grubs under rocks, and befriending indigenous peoples. Rincewind soon meets the magical kangaroo Scrappy, sent by the creator of FourEcks. Meanwhile, the senior wizards and Ponder Stibbons in Ankh Morpork's Unseen University are trying to find a cure for the Librarian's magical malady contracted from his work in the UU's magical library. The wizards soon find out that the books in the Library become hostile and attack when not in the librarian's care. The wizards cannot however cure the Librarian without knowing his name. The wizards then decide to find the continent of XXXX (so named because no one has any clue about what its real name is) where they had previously sent Rincewind by accident.
| Preceded by Interesting Times |
6th Rincewind Story Published in 1998 |
Succeeded by The Last Hero |
| Discworld reading order | Full article |
