Pratchettianとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

Pratchettian (comparative more Pratchettian, superlative most Pratchettian)

1. Of or relating to Terry Pratchett (1948–2015), English author of mostly comic fantasy novels.
   • 1998, Adam Roberts, Silk and Potatoes: Contemporary Arthurian Fantasy, page 145:

     Outside this Pratchettian sub-genre it is actually rare to come across novels that treat Arthurian material from a humorous perspective.

   • 2005, David Langford, The Sex Column and Other Misprints, page 231:

     I plugged Susanna Clarke's debut fantasy Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and read from James Branch Cabell's The Music from Behind the Moon (1926), which weirdly anticipates the Pratchettian common-sense solution to fairytale dilemmas.