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Unseen Academicals
Cover	[[Image:|thumb|center|200px|{{{1}}}]]
Published
Publisher	Doubleday
ISBN	0385609345
Pages	400
Series	[[:Category:|]]
Main characters
Annotations	Annotations for Unseen Academicals
Notes
All data relates to the UK hardback edition.

[edit] 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!"

[edit] Characters

[edit] Major Characters

• Glenda Sugarbean
• Juliet Stollop
• Trevor Likely
• Mr Nutt
• Lord Vetinari
• Madame Sharn
• Pepe
• Andy Shank

[edit] 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
  • Archchancellor Henry
  • Adrian Turnipseed
  • Able Baker

[edit] Minor Characters

• Ankh-Morpork United:
  • Charles Barton
  • F. Brisket
  • H. Capstick
  • Joseph Hoggett, captain
  • Jimmy Wilkins
• Mrs. Atkinson
• Miss Healstether
• Doctor John Lawn
• Lady Margolotta
• Algernon Stollop
• The sisters of perpetual velocity
• William de Worde
• Glang Snorrisson
• Employees at Unseen University
  • Mrs Whitlow
  • Natchbull Smeems, the Candle Knave
  • Downbody
  • Bledlow Nobbs (no relation)
  • Bledlow Ottomy
  • Bledlow Hipney
  • Concrete

[edit] Cameos and Mentions

• Sergeant Angua
• J.P. Bunderbell
• Herr Fassel
• Constable Haddock
• Hwel the Playwright
• Dave Likely
• Piggy Love
• Ofleberger
• Pondlife, a student at UU
• Low King Rhys Rhysson
• Mr. Shine
• Martin Sogger
• Trousenblert
• Vonmausberger
• Dustworthy Swithin
• Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler
• Death

[edit] Locations

• Ankh-Morpork
  • Unseen University
    • The Night Kitchen
    • The vats
  • Dolly Sisters
  • Dimwell
  • Tenth Egg Street
  • The Hippo
  • Lady Sybil Free Hospital (mentioned)
  • Patrician's Palace
  • Shatta
  • Treacle Mine Road
• Genua
• Pseudopolis
  • Brazeneck College
• Sto Lat
• Uberwald (mentioned)
  • AKA The Evil Empire (mentioned)

[edit] Things and Concepts

• Bu-Bubble
• Cabinet of Curiosity
• Compendium of Odours by Brakefast
• Dark War
• First Prodostian War, lost by the Maranids
• Five Hours and Sixteen Minutes Among The Goblins of Far Uberwald
• Goblins
• Grapeshot's Therapeutic Squeezer
• Hex
• Micromail
• Orcs
• Pex (mentioned)
• Retribushium
• Ritual Aggression in Pubescent Rats
• The Shove
• 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

[edit] Foot-the-ball sides

• Dimwell Old Pals
• Dolly Sisters Football Club
• Unseen Academicals
• Ankh-Morpork United
• Treacle Mine Tuesday
• Cockbill Boars
• Pigsty Hill Pork Packers
• Naphill United
• Whopping Street Wanderers
• Lobbin Clout

[edit] 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

[edit] 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. Ueberwald 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.

[edit] See also:

Annotations for Unseen Academicals