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Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody alongside the kind of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. In Similar Rites, a dying wizard attempts to spread his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who's only at that time being born. The truth that the son is really a daughter is discovered slightly too late.