Entering Discworld. Population: Terry Pratchett.
Imaginary Worlds
The Power of Faith
"You have to start out learning to believe the little lies," says author Emmet. "Faith is a thing that you believe in." Pratchett's point is that everything is something you believe in, he adds. A lot of fantasy writers use fantasy as a way of either explaining their own faiths or creating their own faiths,. I think that death is one of those figures that really comes as close to Pratchett creating God as he ever gets because death cares so much about us".
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