Nation is both broad in the concepts and ideals into which it delves while at the same time specific in the details of this alternate history world. The characters are a mixture of the alarming, funny, and endearing, ranging from a cranky island priest and shipmates-turned-pirates to cannibals, yet all are utterly believable even in their outrageous natures.
Terry Pratchett has published more than three dozen novels, including the popular Discworld fantasy series. One of the best-selling English language authors of all time, he has received numerous awards and much acclaim for his youth and children's fiction, including the Carnegie Medal, Britain's highest honor for a children's novel, for The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. Pratchett's The Wee Free Men series has been optioned for film by Sony Pictures, and The Bromeliad Trilogy was optioned by Dreamworks.
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