Editing Guards! Guards! (section)

==Reception==
[[John Clute]] in 1990 wrote that the book's serious topics risked damaging the Discworld's comedic potential: "Pratchett writes with something like genius", and particularly faulted Lord Vetinari's monologue on the nature of [[evil]] (which Clute described as [[Realpolitik]] and [[Weltschmerz]]): although he conceded that the monologue had been skilfully written, and he felt that it "has all the ring of another sphere of discourse" and "comes close to shattering the comic pulse of the Discworld".<ref name=Clute>[https://books.google.com/books?id=DI-PDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT120 Guards, Unicorns, Zool], by [[John Clute]], originally published in ''[[Interzone (magazine)|Interzone]]'' January/February 1990; archived in ''Look at the Evidence: Essays and Reviews''; published 2016 by [[Orion Publishing Group]]</ref>

''[[National Public Radio|NPR]]'' described ''Guards! Guards!'' as a "solid entryway" to the Discworld novels.<ref name=NPR>[https://www.npr.org/2015/03/16/393358428/theres-no-wrong-place-to-start-reading-pratchett There's No Wrong Place To Start Reading Pratchett], by Tasha Robinson, at [[National Public Radio]]; published March 16, 2015; retrieved September 29, 2017</ref>