Guards Guards is great for people who believe in police reform, because the Guards are exactly the kind of people you would want to be police; Kind, compassionate, dedicated, honest, (except Nobby), and devoted to protecting the people of the city, individually and collectively, whatever the odds, even if they need to be protected from themselves.

And you read this, and fall in love with them, and eventually realize that they behave exactly un-like cops in every detail and particular.

Also, Terry accidentally said Trans Rights before he even properly knew that Trans people were a thing, which is both cool for him as an individual, and cool to hear from someone who was extremely British.

He also has a series of books that center on young women who do things. Unlike a lot of fantasy authors from his era he always treated women characters seriously and, to the best of my knowledge, was never a creep about it.