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Revision as of 05:00, 28 September 2022
| Unseen Academicals | |
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| Illustrator(s) | Paul Kidby |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
| Publication date | 13 Oct 2009 |
| ISBN | 0385609345 |
| Pages | 320 |
| RRP | £18.99 |
| Main characters | Mr. Nutt, Trevor Likely, Glenda Sugarbean, Juliet Stollop |
| Series | Ankh-Morpork Series |
| Annotations | View |
| Notes | The 37th Discworld novel |
| All data relates to the first UK edition. | |
Cover Blurb
"Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork – not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go gloing when you drop them. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else.
The prospect of the Big Match draws in a likely lad with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman who might just turn out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been, and the mysterious Mr Nutt. (No one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt, which worries him, too.)
As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed for ever. Because the thing about football – the important thing about football – is that it is not just about football.
Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!"
Characters
Major Characters
Wizards
- Wizards of Unseen University
- Mustrum Ridcully
- Rincewind
- The Librarian
- Chair of Indefinite Studies
- Lecturer in Recent Runes
- Senior Wrangler
- Ponder Stibbons
- Dr Hix
- Bengo Macarona, for clarity it should be noted that merely one person has matriculated as Bengo Macarona.
- Professor of Recondite Phenomena
- Professor of Illiberal Studies
- Professor Maidenhair
- Wizards of Brazeneck College
Minor Characters
- Ankh-Morpork United:
- Mrs. Atkinson
- Miss Healstether
- Doctor John Lawn
- Igor at the Lady Sybil Free Hospital
- Lady Margolotta
- Rufus Drumknott
- Algernon Stollop
- The sisters of perpetual velocity
- William de Worde
- Glang Snorrisson
- Rudolph Scattering
- "Fartmeister" Carter
- Employees at Unseen University
- Mrs Whitlow
- Natchbull Smeems, the Candle Knave
- Downbody
- Bledlow Nobbs (no relation)
- Bledlow Ottomy
- Bledlow Hipney
- Concrete
Cameos and Mentions
- Sergeant Angua
- J.P. Bunderbell
- Herr Fassel
- Frugal, a philosopher of the Bonk School
- Constable Haddock
- Bluejohn
- Hwel the Playwright
- Dave Likely
- Piggy Love
- Herr Doktor Maspinder, another philosopher of the Bonk School
- Ofleberger, a philosopher of the Bonk School
- Pondlife, a student at UU
- Low King Rhys Rhysson
- Mr. Shine
- Martin Sogger
- Trousenblert, yet another philosopher of the Bonk School
- Vonmausberger. Did we mention he is a philosopher of the Bonk School?
- Dustworthy Swithin
- Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler
- Death
- Bill Rincewind
- Sam Vimes
- The Luggage
- The Postmaster General (Moist von Lipwig)
Locations
- Ankh-Morpork
- Genua
- Pseudopolis
- Sto Lat
- Uberwald (mentioned)
- AKA The Evil Empire (mentioned)
Things and Concepts
- Bu-Bubble
- Cabinet of Curiosity
- Compendium of Odours by Brakefast
- Dark War
- Discomforting Misusage, by Birdcatcher
- First Prodostian War, lost by the Maranids
- Five Hours and Sixteen Minutes Among The Goblins of Far Uberwald
- Furies
- Goblins
- Grapeshot's Therapeutic Squeezer
- Hex
- Hunt the Megapode
- Micromail
- Orcs
- Pex (mentioned)
- Retribushium
- Ritual Aggression in Pubescent Rats
- The Shove
- Slood
- The Speech of Trolls by Postalume
- The Ankh-Morpork Times
- Trespassers' Society of Ankh-Morpork
- Trumpet of Equestrianism by Spout
- We Can Rule You Wholesale
- Beauty Arising from the Pease Pudding Cart Attended by Cherubs Carrying Hot Dogs and Pies
- The whistle of Evans the Striped
- Blit
- Crab Bucket
Foot-the-ball sides
- The Angels
- Dimwell Old Pals
- Dolly Sisters Football Club
- Unseen Academicals
- Ankh-Morpork United
- Treacle Mine Tuesday ("the Miners")
- Cockbill Boars
- Pigsty Hill Pork Packers
- Naphill United
- Whopping Street Wanderers ("the Whoppers")
- Lobbin Clout
Gameday Iconograph
Lineup
- Front: Librarian
- First Row, from left: The Luggage-The Chair of Indefinite Studies- Mr. Nutt
- Seated: Dr. Hix-Ponder Stibbons-The Lecturer in Recent Runes-Trevor Likely
- Standing: Glenda Sugarbean-Senior Wrangler-Bengo Macarona-Mustrum Ridcully-Rincewind-Havelock Vetinari-Juliet Stollop
Roundworld comparisons
That hack from Stratford-on Avon wrote a play about horny teenagers in Verona, Italy. This Discworld story centers on horny teenagers (well, not Glenda) who are fans of different foot-the-ball sides, but then again it doesn't. The name Dimwell seems close to Millwall, area and football club in London noted for the belligerence of their supporters. Uberwald is a roundworld reference to Germany. The orcs are symbolic for modern Germans. All books that Nutt cites have German titles. Today, Germans have problems with their place in history, because of their role in the war, just like the orcs, even several generations afterwards. Uberwald actually translates as over the forest as does Transylvania. The books have German titles because Freud is the father of psychology.
Adaptations
Theatre
Adapted by Stephen Briggs into a stage play in 2015.
Audio Drama
Adapted into an audio drama for Amazon Audible by Richard Curtie and Bev Doyle, directed by Dirk Maggs, in partnership with Narrativia in 2018.
See also
Annotations for Unseen Academicals
The Ankh-Morpork Football Association Hall of Fame playing cards
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