Editing Small Gods (section)

==Reception==
Australian author [[Jack Heath]] described the book as "one of the 20th&nbsp;century's finest satires", and added that "the gods are pompous, the worshippers cowed, and the priests violently closed-minded. Yet the tale is never heavy-handed, thanks to Brutha's sincerity and some deftly comical plot twists, as well as all the levity that comes from picturing an angry God trapped in the body of a tortoise."<ref>{{cite web |last=Heath |first=Jack |title=Small Gods |website=The Jack Heath blog (blog.jackheath.com.au) |url=http://blog.jackheath.com.au/post/23284968838/get-thee-behind-me-demon-says-brutha-i-am |url-status=dead |access-date=19 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130410142720/http://blog.jackheath.com.au/post/23284968838/get-thee-behind-me-demon-says-brutha-i-am |archive-date=10 April 2013 }}</ref> T.M.&nbsp;Wagner praised it as "an extraordinary novel" on SFreviews.net, and called it a "biting but compassionate satire".<ref>{{cite web |last=Wagner |first=Thomas M. |title=''Small Gods'' / Terry Pratchett |website=sfreviews.net |url=http://www.sfreviews.net/smallgods.html |access-date=19 May 2012 }}</ref> In 2011, [[National Public Radio]] ranked it #57 on its list of 100&nbsp;best science fiction / fantasy novels.<ref name=NPR>{{cite web |title=Top&nbsp;100 science-fiction / fantasy novels |date=11 August 2011 |website=[[National Public Radio]] (npr.org) |url=https://www.npr.org/2011/08/09/139248590/top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books |access-date=14 March 2015}}</ref>

Pratchett stated that he received fan mail from "(1)&nbsp;pagans who say that it really shafts the Big Beard in the Sky religions, and (2)&nbsp;Christians who say that it is an incredibly pro-Christian book".<ref>{{cite web |website=lspace.org |title=Words from the Master |url=http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/words-from-the-master.html }}</ref>