{"id":12931,"date":"2025-03-09T22:45:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T21:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=12931"},"modified":"2025-03-09T22:45:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T21:45:34","slug":"discworld-rules-by-venkatesh-rao-contraptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2025\/03\/09\/discworld-rules-by-venkatesh-rao-contraptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Discworld Rules – by Venkatesh Rao – Contraptions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This Discworld Rules  is a very interesting article <\/strong>by Venkatesh Rao<\/a>; it’s rather longish. What caught my attention is this reading map of Discworld books:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This Discworld Rules  is a very interesting article by Venkatesh Rao; it’s rather longish. What caught my attention is this reading map of Discworld books:<\/p>\n

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