‘Anything one does in the past changes the near future. The tiniest little actions have large consequences. You might tread with an ant right now and it might entirely prevent someone from being created in the future.’

There’s nothing just like the issue of progression to get beneath the pores and skin of academics. Actually if their field of knowledge is magic instead of biology. With the very best & most interfering minds of Unseen College or university somehow left in charge at a critical evolutionary turning point, the Discworld’s last continent requires a saviour…

Who’s this hero striding across the crimson desert? Sheep shearer, ale drinker, bush ranger, and somebody who’ll even eat a Meats Pie Floater when he’s sober.

In fact, it’s Rincewind, a wizard therefore inept he can’t also spell wizard. He’s the only hero left.

Still…don’t worry, eh?