terry pratchett

This as a result of some unexpected agency like , a bolt of lighting , sucked though a magical wormhole a result of reading an incantation from a glitzy covered magic Grimoire of dubious authorship, getting picked up by a rogue flying saucer or due to an un-requested Astral Projection or...

Terry Pratchett would have been 75 today. Taken far too early, sadly missed.

Sir Terry's unfinished work was destroyed, but it seems we'll soon be able to buy some short stories of his which we're unlikely to have read, as they were published in a regional newspaper under a pseudonym, and are now to be brought out in a new anthology...

By way of introductory remarks, let me state that I’ve been sitting on the chance to review Terry Pratchett’s Small Gods for a while, savouring the chance to have my say about one of the most universally respected Discworld books. The reason for that respect lies equally in the premise and the...

Hello, everyone. I searched but couldn't find mention of the new, official biography being released today about Mr. Pratchett (his daughter has endorsed it, and it says 'Official' on the cover!). Its name is Terry Pratchett, A Life With Footnotes, and it was written (or completed) by Rob Wilkins...

Found this in a link from Ansible #50 Alien Christmas - Beccon '87 - After-Dinner Speech by Terry Pratchett

Just found an old article from Terry Pratchett and his thoughts on Dr Who. Apologies if it's been posted before https://www.gamesradar.com/guest-blog-terry-pratchett-on-doctor-who/

I remember reading one of the quotes from a review in the paperback version of either "Guards Guards" or "Men At Arms" where the very first quote was calling him a complete amateur for not writing in chapters, then every other quote sang PTerry's praises. But what does everyone here think? Was...

This was a bittersweet review. For a long time, I’d never read the last Discworld as leaving one unstarted was a little act of homage to Sir Pterry, a little bit of sadness remembered. Well, sentiment more than has a place in life, but sooner or late the right sentiment is getting on with...

Discworld #1: The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

The third book in the Long Earth series, Long Mars continues the story of humanity’s discovery, exploration and exploitation of the multi-universe parallel Earths and now Marses (as a word never designed to be pluralised this is what the authors went with). It’s hard to know what more to say as...

Football is the main focus of Unseen Academicals but, as always, all sorts of other subjects receive broadsides from Terry Pratchett’s satirical pen along the way. The staff of Unseen University must field a football team to launch a new and somewhat more controlled style of football as compared...

I read about this in Starlog--had to be before 1995 since I ran out of money to buy the magazine, so I would say early 1990s for sure. All I remember about this novel was that the Grim Reaper was being replaced by a mechanical version and there was some critique about it lacking the "personal...

I was in the middle of reading other books, and had quite different plans, and then I made the mistake of picking up a Discworld book and read a few pages, found myself dragged into it and ended up reading it in a day or so. I then pulled the next one down off the shelf and read that similarly...

This is Pratchett's second Witches book, the first being Witches Abroad (1989). In this book Magrat Garlick, the youngest of the 3, is to be married to King Verence and must learn how to Queen. Meanwhile the Lancre Morris Dancers are preparing for an entertainment for the wedding party and...

I'm trying to assemble a list of science fiction or fantasy stories in which honeybees play a role. Can anyone help me identify some? Many thanks!

Only You Can Save Mankind Terry Pratchett HarperCollins, Jul 2005, $15.99 ISBN: 0060541865 Twelve years old Johnny Maxwell loves to play computer games especially those with alien battles. His favorite game at the moment is ONLY YOU CAN SAVE MANKIND in which he battles the ScreeWee. However...

Thud Terry Pratchett Harper Collins, Sept 2005, $24.95, 384 pp. ISBN 00660815221 Millennium ago, a battle was fought at Koom Valley between the trolls and the dwarves. Nobody remembers who started it or what it was about but ever since there has been a deep hatred that boiled over many times...

Johnny and the Dead Terry Pratchett HarperCollins, Jan 2006, $15.99 ISBN: 0060541881 The town council wants to sell off the historical cemetery to a developer. They insist that no one except an old woman visits the place and it is expensive to keep it up. They do not know that twelve years old...

Wintersmith Terry Pratchett Harper, Oct 2006, $16.99, 272 pp. ISBN 0060890312 Thirteen year old Tiffany Aching is an apprentice witch learning to use her magic to perform spells. People don’t want anything to do with witches until they actually need them. Tiffany is watched over by Feegles who...