The Light Fantastic is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the second of the Discworld series. It was published on 2 June 1986, the first printing being of 1,034 copies. The title, taken from a poem by John Milton, in which it refers to dancing lightly with extravagance. The events of the novel are a direct continuation of those in the preceding book, The Colour of Magic.
I enjoyed this second Discworld novel marginally more than the first part (Colour of Magic). The humour is there in all its gory, no idiom will stay unscathed and no legend uprooted. Darkness is not the opposite of light, it's just absence of light. Opposite of light is called (appropriately): Light Fantastic.
2nd book of 131,636,128 in the Discworld series, The Light Fantastic maintains a similar humor style to the first one, but does a much better job of weaving a coherent, compelling narrative.
Instead of characters wandering around randomly for the sake of wacky hijinx, there's now an overarching story, which causes many wacky hijinx to ensue.
A marked improvement over the first, and I look forward to more of the series.
