Great A'Tuin, the celestial turtle that carries the four elephants who in turn carry the Discworld on their backs, is swimming through space towards a giant red sun, apparently dooming the Disc to imminent destruction. Doomsday cults are springing up on the Disc, and the only chance this unlikely flat world has for survival rests with the unlikely band consisting of the cowardly and inept failed wizard Rincwind, his naive tourist companion Twoflower, the world's oldest and most toothless barbarian Cohen, and a charmingly homicidal animated chest, the Luggage.
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