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Eric, by Terry Pratchett, is the story of a incompetent wizard named Rincewind and a thirteen-year-old boy named Eric. Eric summons a demon but unexpectedly gets Rincewind, who had been trapped in the Underworld after fighting a sourcerer. The two set out on an adventure that eventually will help out the course of the universe and return the Underworld to normal.

Death, a skeleton in a black robe responsible for coming and collecting a souls when a person dies, is in his garden attending his bees. Death hears the thoughts of someone who knows they are about to die. Death suddenly realizes who it is but says nothing other than "It's him," (p. 3). In Ankh-Morpork the people are going about their daily lives when there is suddenly a massive surge of magic through the businesses and residences. In the library of...