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1.19 Maskerade
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Maskerade
%I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) [first h/cvr with letterbox style d-j. ab initio.]
%D 11/95 (actually available in october)
ISBN 0-575-05808-0
%I corgi (p/b)
%D 11/96
ISBN 0-552-14236-0
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.)
%D 11/96
ISBN 0-552-14426-6
%I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr) (cvr: carl d. galian)
%D 10/97
ISBN 0-06-105251-5
%I HarperPrism (mmp/b)
%D 10/98
ISBN 0-06-105691-X
h/cvr blurb:
The Opera House, Ankh Morpork . . . a huge, rambling building,
where masked figures and hooded shadows do wicked deeds in the
wings . . . where dying the death on stage is a little bit more
than just a metaphor . . . where innocent young sopranos are
lured to their destiny by an evil mastermind in a hideously
deformed evening dress . . .
Where . . . there's a couple of old ladies in pointy hats eating
peanuts in the stalls and looking at the big chandelier and
saying things like: 'There's an accident waiting to happen if
ever I saw one'.
Yes . . . Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, the Discworld's
greatest witches, are back for an innocent night at the opera.
So there's going to be _trouble_ (but nevertheless a good
evening's entertainment with murders you can really _hum_)
p/b blurb:
The Opera House, Ankh Morpork . . . a huge, rambling building,
where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by an
evil mastermind in a hideously deformed evening dress...
At least, he hopes so. But Granny Weatherwax, Discworld's most
famous witch, is in the audience. _And she doesn't hold with
that sort of thing._
So there's going to be _trouble_ (but nevertheless a good
evening's entertainment with murders you can really _hum_...)
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1.20 Feet of Clay
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Feet of Clay
%I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) [h/cvr with letterbox style dj. ab initio.]
%D 5/96 (actually available in april) [csm has advised date 6/6/96 !]
ISBN 0-575-05900-1
%I Corgi (p/b)
%D 2/5/97 (actually available from 28/4/97)
ISBN 0-552-14237-9
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.)
%D 1/7/97 (actually available 30/6/97)
ISBN 0-552-14573-4
%I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr) (cvr: - ? - [not seen])
%D 10/96
ISBN 0-06-10....-. (n.y.k.)
%I HarperPrism (mmp/b) (cvr: michael sabanosh)
%D 10/97
ISBN 0-06-105764-9
h/cvr blurb:
Who's murdering harmless old men? who's poisoning the Patrician?
As autumn fogs hold Anhk-Morpork in their grip, the City Watch
have to track down a murderer who can't be seen.
Maybe the golems know something - but the solemn men of clay,
who work all day and night and are never any trouble to anyone,
have started to commit suicide ...
It's not as if the Watch hasn't got problems of its own. There's
a werewolf suffering from Pre-Lunar Tension. Corporal Nobbs is
hob-nobbing with the nobs, and there's something really strange
about the new dwarf recruit, especially his earrings and
eyeshadow.
Who can you trust when there are mobs on the streets and
plotters in the dark and all the clues point the wrong way?
In the gloom of the night, Watch Commander Sir Samuel Vimes
finds that the truth might not be out there at all.
*_It may be in amongst the words in the head._*
A chilling tale of poison and pottery.
p/b blurb:
THERE'S A WEREWOLF WITH PRE-LUNAR TENSIOM IN ANKH-MORPORK. AND A
DWARF WITH ATTITUDE AND A GOLEM WHO'S BEGUN TO THINK FOR ITSELF.
But for Commander Vimes, Head of Ankh-Morpork City Watch, that's
only the start...
There's treason in the air.
A crime has happened.
He's not only got to find out whodunit, but howdunit too. He's not
even sure what they dun. But as soon as he knows what the questions
are, he's going to want some answers.
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1.21 Hogfather
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Hogfather
%I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) [h/cvr with letterbox style dj. ab initio.]
%D 11/96 (actually available 10/96)
ISBN 0-575-06403-X
%I Corgi (p/b)
%D 2/11/97 [announced] (actually on sale in netherlands & scandawegia 10/97)
ISBN 0-552-14542-4
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.)
%D 12/12/97 (was scheduled for 1/11/97)
ISBN 0-552-14574-2
%I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr)
%D 10/98
ISBN 0-06-105046-6
%I HarperPrism (mmp/b)
%D 10/99 [scheduled]
ISBN 0-06-10....-. (n.y.k.)
h/cvr blurb:
It's the night before Hogswatch. And it's too quiet.
There's snow, there're robins, there're trees covered with decora-
tions, but there's a notable lack of the big fat man who delivers
the toys . . .
He's _gone_.
Susan the governess has got to find him before morning, otherwise
the sun won't rise. And unfortunately her only helpers are a raven
with an eyeball fixation, the Death of Rats and an oh god of hang-
overs.
Worse still, _someone_ is coming down the chimney. This time he's
carrying a sack instead of a scythe, but there's something regret-
tably familiar . . .
Ho. Ho. Ho.
It's true what they say.
`_You'd better watch out . . ._'
p/b blurb:
IT'S THE NIGHT BEFORE HOGSWATCH. AND IT'S TOO QUIET.
Where is the big jolly fat man? Why is _Death_ creeping down
chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho? The darkest night of the
year is getting a lot darker...
Susan the gothic governess has got to sort it out by morning,
otherwise there won't _be_ a morning. Ever again...
[The 20th..novel..a festive feast of darkness and Death (but
with jolly robins and tinsel too).]
As they say: You'd better watch out...
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1.22 Jingo
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Jingo
%I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) [h/cvr with letterbox style dj. ab initio.]
%D 6/11/97 [on sale in uk by 22/10/98]
ISBN 0-575-06540-0
%I Corgi (p/b)
%D 5/11/98
ISBN 0-552-14598-X
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.)
%D 5/11/98
ISBN 0-552-14684-6
%I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr)
%D 5/98
ISBN 0-06-105047-4 (cover art by michael sabanosh)
%I HarperPrism (mmp/b)
%D 3/99
ISBN 0-06-105906-4 (cover art by michael sabanosh)
h/cvr blurb:
A weather cock has risen from the sea of Discworld, and suddenly
you can tell which way the wind is blowing.
A new land has surfaced, and so have old feuds.
And as two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch
has got just a few hours to deal with a crime so big that there's
no law against it. It's called `war'.
He's facing unpleasant foes who are out to get him... that's just
the people on _his_ side. The enemy might be even worse. And his
pocket Dis-organiser says he's got _Die_ under `Things To Do Today'.
But he'd better not, because the world's cleverest inventor and its
most devious politician are on their way to the battlefield with a
little package that's _guaranteed_ to stop a battle...
Discworld goes to war, with armies of sardines, warriors, fishermen,
squid and at least one very camp follower.
p/b blurb:
DISCWORLD GOES TO WAR, WITH ARMIES OF SARDINES, WARRIORS, FISHER-
MEN, SQUID AND AT LEAST ONE VERY CAMP FOLLOWER
As two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch
faces unpleasant foes who are out to get him...and theat's just the
people on his side. The enemy mighht be even worse.
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1.23 The Last Continent
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Last Continent
%I Doubleday (h/cvr) [h/cvr with non-letterbox style dj.]
%D 2/5/98 [on sale in uk & europe by 24/4/98]
ISBN 0-385-40989-3
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.)
%D 30/4/98
ISBN 0-552-14650-1
%I Isis (?six- or eight-? cassette audio/b)
%D 2/99 [scheduled]
ISBN 1-85695-...-.
%I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr)
%D 3/99
ISBN 0-06-105048-2 2
%I corgi (p/b)
%D 29/4/99 [on sale 3/3/99 in israel, the netherlands, switzerland]
ISBN 0-552-14614-5
%I HarperPrism (mmp/b)
%D 3/00 [Y2k - eeek !] [scheduled]
ISBN 0-06-10....-. (n.y.k.)
h/cvr blurb:
This is the Discworld's last continent, a completely separate
creation.
It's hot. It's dry . . . very dry. There was this thing once
called The Wet, which no one now believes in. Practically
everything that's not poisonous is venemous. But it's the best
bloody place in the world, all right?
And it'll die in a few days, except . . .
Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Champion sheep
shearer, horse rider, road warrior, beer drinker, bush ranger
and someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's _sober?_
A man in a hat, whose Luggage follows him around on little legs,
who's about to change history by preventing a swagman stealing
a jumbuck by a billabong?
Yes . . . all this place has between itself and wind-blown doom
is Rincewind, the inept wizard who can't even _spell_ wizard.
He's the only hero left.
Still . . . no worries, eh?
Terry Pratchett would like it to be known that _The Last Continent_
is not a book about Australia. It's just vaguely australian.
p/b blurb:
IT'S THE DISCWORLD'S LAST CONTINENT AND IT'S GOING TO DIE IN A
FEW DAYS, EXCEPT...
Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Sheep shearer,
beer drinker, bush ranger, and someone who'll even eat a Meat
Pie Floater when he's sober.
A man in a hat whose luggage follows him on little legs. Yes,
it's Rincewind, the inept wizard who can't even spell wizard.
He's the only hero left.
Still...no worries, eh?
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1.24 The Death Trilogy
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Death Trilogy
%I Gollancz (h/cvr) [non-letterbox style dj.]
[n.b. as with The Witches Trilogy, 1.17, the pages of this h/cvr are not
properly sewn in signatures, and then sewn to a backing strip of cloth
that is then bound between the boards of the cover: they are merely
trimmed and glued to a flexible bound-in backing strip.]
%D 22/10/98 [on sale by 7/10/98]
ISBN 0-575-06584-2
Omnibus collecting Mort, Reaper Man and Soul Music.
Introducing the Discworld's most popular character - the fellow
with the white horse and the ultimate weight-loss programme . . .
DEATH
Here are three novels featuring Terry Pratchett's most celebrated
denizen of the Discworld, together with the usual motley cast, in-
cluding Death's granddaughter Susan, Binky and the Death of Rats.
MORT
Death, having delegated most of his duties to his new apprentice,
the uncompromising, gangling teenager Mort, is showing disturbing-
ly human characteristics: drinking, dice-playing and becoming cur-
ious about the nature of Fun . . .
REAPER MAN
Death is missing, presumed . . . er . . . gone. Which leads to the
kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is
withdrawn.
SOUL MUSIC
It's hard to grow up normally when grandfather rides a white horse
and wields a scythe - especially when you have to take over the fam-
ily business and everyone keeps mistaking you for the Tooth Fairy.
But Susan must face the new music that has entered the Discworld:
it's lawless, it changes people . . . it's called Music With Rocks
In. And it won't fade away . . .
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1.25 Carpe Jugulum
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Carpe Jugulum
%I Doubleday (h/cvr)
%D 5/11/98 [on sale in holland, belgium, scandawegia & merkia a week earlier]
ISBN 0-385-40992-3
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.)
%D 5/11/98
ISBN 0-552-14653-6
%I corgi (p/b)
%D 11/99 [scheduled]
ISBN 0-552-.....-. (n.y.k.)
%I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr)
%D 9/99 [scheduled]
ISBN 0-06-10....-. (n.y.k.)
%I HarperPrism (mmp/b)
%D c.9/00 [y2k - eeek !][guesstimated]
ISBN 0-06-10....-. (n.y.k.)
h/cvr blurb:
Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. He thought
he'd come to the mountain kingdom of Lancre for a simple little
religious ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires
and witches, and he's not sure there _is_ a right side.
There're the witches - young Agnes, who is _really_ in two minds
about everything, Magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and
nappies, Nanny Ogg, who is far too knowing... and Granny Weatherwax,
who is big trouble.
And the vampires are _intelligent_ - not easily got rid of with a
garlic enema or bu going to the window, grasping the curtains and
saying, "I don't know about you, but isn't it a bit stuffy in here?"
They've got style and fancy waistcoats.
They're out of the casket and want a bite of the future.
Mightily Oats knows he has a prayer, but wishes he had an axe.
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1.26 The Colour of Magic: The Light Fantastic: The First Discworld Novels
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Colour of Magic: The Light Fantastic: The First Discworld Novels
%I Colin Smythe (h/cvr) [h/cvr with letterbox-style dj]
%D 8/5/99
ISBN 0-86140-421-1
This is how the Discworld began...
In _The Colour of Magic_ the failed wizard Rincewind burst
upon the world and hasn't stopped running since.
This was the book that started the phenomenally successful
series. Here is the sapient pearwood luggage, a mobile trunk
which launders any clothes put it in [sic] and incidentally
homicidally defends its owner. Here is Twoflower, an innocent
tourist in a world of nightmares and fairy tales gone wrong.
Here is Cohen the Barbarian, the world's oldest and greatest
hero. Here is Death, not such a bad sort when you get to know
him...
They have adventures. It'd take too long to explain. Just
read it!
[source: colin smythe 4/99][the dj blurb error noted above
will be corrected during the life of the first edition of
the omnibus - source: colin smythe 4/5/99][which corrected
dj + volume will technically constitute the second state of
the first edition. ppint.]
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1.27 City Watch Trilogy (Omnibus of 1.8, 1.15 & 1.20, i suspect)
%A Terry Pratchett
%T [? The City Watch Trilogy ?]
%I Gollancz (h/cvr) [prob'ly non-letterbox style dj.]
%D 10/99 [scheduled]
ISBN 0-575-.....-.
[n.b. - as with The Witches Trilogy, 1.17, the pages of this h/cvr are
unlikely to be properly sewn in signatures, and then sewn to a backing
strip of cloth that is then bound between the boards of the cover: they
are most likely trimmed and glued to a flexible bound-in backing strip.]
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1.28 The Fifth Elephant
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Fifth Elephant
%I Doubleday (h/cvr)
%D 11/99 [scheduled]
ISBN 0-385-.....-. (n.y.k.)
%I corgi (p/b)
%D 11/00 [estimated][yr2k - eek !]
ISBN 0-552-.....-. (n.y.k.)
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.)
%D 11/99 [estimated]
ISBN 0-552-.....-. (n.y.k.)
%I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr)
%D 3/00 [y2k - eeek !] [scheduled]
ISBN 0-06-10....-. (n.y.k.)
%I HarperPrism (mmp/b)
%D c.3/01 [guesstimated]
ISBN 0-06-10....-. (n.y.k.)
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1.29 [none yet announced on schedules]
%A Terry Pratchett
%T [n.y.k.]
%I Doubleday (h/cvr)
%D 5 or 11/00 [estimated][yr2k - eek !]
ISBN 0-385-.....-. (n.y.k.)
%I corgi (p/b)
%D 5 or 11/01 [estimated]
ISBN 0-552-.....-. (n.y.k.)
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.)
%D 5 or 11/00 [estimated][yr2k - eek !]
ISBN 0-552-.....-. (n.y.k.)
terry has, more than once, said he feels he may slow down,
or take a holiday from the discworld - and equally often
discovered that there was another discworld story that in-
sisted on being told, or another story that proved to be
as well-suited to being set therein; and, that he has no
intention of writing "the last discworld novel", other than
in the sense that he himself is mortal and that he will not
permit his creation to be franchised or otherwise given the
artificial semblence of life thereafter, by any other hand.
i, for one, will eagerly pounce upon any novel i find with
his byline, whatever the world in which it is set, having
greatly enjoyed all that he's had published, and not just
the nowadays best-selling discworld novels: see below, for
quite how much more than two dozen such, are available.
[ppint.]
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2. Pre-Discworld
These books are Terry's earlier efforts, and came before the success
of "The Colour of Magic"; though The Carpet People was re-written later.
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2.1 The Carpet People (1st Edition)
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Carpet People
%I Colin Smythe (h/cvr)
%D 11/71 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-900675-49-7
Price : ukL 1.90 [1.90 GBP] Hardback 17cm x 22cm, 195 pages
33 B&W illustrations by _the author_; a few copies hand-coloured
by him. Cover shows various creatures licking a large white cube.
h/cvr blurb:
The is magic in every carpet. Cities and villages exist right under
your feet and the people who live in them are so small that each
tuft of wool stretches high above them like giant trees. A grain
of sugar which has somehow found its way into the world of the
carpet people, becomes a favourite mountain for the carpet animals
where they go as often as possible. Dust plants make up a wonderful
vegetation, and the world of the carpet people is as real to them
as the earth is to us.
But there are also creatures who live in the underlay; they appear
to be allies of that terrible and powerful Fray who lives above the
carpet. Whenever he passes above, he leaves destruction behind him
in the world of the carpet people, and the creatures of the underlay
try to take advantage of them.
This is the story of Snibril and Glurk, the leaders of the carpet
people and how they finally defeat the servants of Fray. It is full
of magic battles and the day to day struggle of the brave and
ingenious carpet people.
Children of all ages, from 5 to 50 will enjoy this book, and the
world of the Carpet People in the reader's own home will add a new
dimension to his imagination.
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2.2 The Carpet People (revised edition)
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Carpet People
%I Doubleday (h/cvr)
%D 1992
ISBN 0-385-40304-6
%I corgi (p/b)
%D 4/93
ISBN 0-552-52752-1
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.)
%D 4/9/97
ISBN 0-552-54552-X
h/cvr blurb:
In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness.
Then came the Carpet...
That's the old story everyone knows and loves (even if they
don't really _believe_ it). For now the Carpet is home for
many different tribes and peoples - from the empire-building
Dumii, to the nomadic Munrungs, the proud Deftmenes, and the
terrible creatures from the Unswept Regions. And there's a
new story in the making.
The story of the time when Fray begins to move, sweeping a
trail of destruction across the Carpet.
The story of the power-hungry mouls, saddling up their snargs
and riding to the attack.
The story of Glurk and Snibril, Munrung brothers, who set out
on an adventure to end all adventures when their village is
flattened.
The story that will come to a terrible end - if someone
doesn't do something about it. If _everyone_ doesn't do
something about it...
p/b blurb:
as for h/cvr, with "But now.. ..to many..." for "For now..
..for many..." at start 2nd para; and "..peoples and now
there's a new story in the making. The story of Fray,
sweeping a trail of destruction across the Carpet. The
story of power-hungry mouls - and of two Munrung brothers,
who set out on an adventure to end all adventures when
their village is flattened.
It's a story that will come to a terrible end - if someone
doesn't do something about it. If _everyone_ doesn't do
something about it..."
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2.3 The Dark Side of the Sun
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Dark Side of the Sun
%I Colin Smythe (h/cvr)
%D 1/76 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-901072-20-6
this h/cvr edition's dust-jacket art is by Terry, 1973, as is the St.Martins;
%I St. Martin's (merkin h/cvr) [a modified run-on of the Colin Smythe edn.]
%D 1976 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-........-.
%I New English Library (p/b) cover art by Tim White.
%D 3/78 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-450-03298-1
%I Signet (mmp/b)
%D (not yet known) [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-451-.....-.
%I Corgi (p/b) cover art by Josh Kirby.
%D 4/88
ISBN 0-552-13326-4
%I Doubleday (h/cvr) dust-jacket art from the Corgi p/b edition.
%D 1994
ISBN 0-385-40476-X
h/cvr blurb:
_Probability Math:_ the science of foretelling the future. For
Dom Sabalos, heir to an immensely rich family, its forecasts
were curiously contradictory: he would be assassinated, and
_after_ that, find the fabulous, almost mythical, world of the
Jokers, who were only known by a few incredible artifacts
scattered throughout the Galaxy.
Any good P-Mathematician could find out this information. Some-
body certainly wanted to prove P-Math wrong as far as Dom was
concerned, and make sure that once he was dead, he stayed dead. A
robot assassin, with built-in `luck', had been put on his tail,
but what was it that protected Dom every time the assassin
struck?
To be sure, he had an excellent robot servant, Isaac; (class 5
with Man-Friday subcircuitry). a planet (the First Syrian Bank)
as a god-father, a determined and protective grandmother (who
looked as if she had been born aged eighty), a security chief who
even ran checks on himself, and a home world, where a missing
hand was only a minor mishap and even death was not always fatal
- but what protected Dom on his search for the world which he
knew lay on the dark side of the sun:?
p/b blurb:
Dom Salabos had a lot of advantages.
As heir to a huge fortune, he had an excellent robot
servant (with Man-Friday subcircuity), a planet (the First
Syrian Bank) as a godfather, a security chief who even ran
checks on himself, and on Dom's home world even death was
not always fatal.
Why then, in an age when prediction was a science, was his
future in doubt?
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2.4 Strata
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Strata
%I Colin Smythe (h/cvr)
%D 6/81 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-901072-91-5
this h/cvr edition's dust-jacket art is by Tim White, as is the St.Martin's;
%I St. Martin's (merkin h/cvr) [a modified run-on of the Colin Smythe edn.]
%D c.1981 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-........-.
%I New English Library (p/b) new cover art by Tim White.
%D 5/82 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-450-04977-9
%I Signet (mmp/b)
%D 3/83 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-451-12147-3
%I Roc (mmp/b) LE5111 cover art by Darrell K. Sweet.
%D [?][3rd printing of the mmp/b] [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-451-45111-2
%I Corgi (p/b) cover art by Josh Kirby.
%D 1988 [re-set 1990]
ISBN 0-552-13325-6
%I Doubleday (h/cvr) dust-jacket art from the Corgi p/b edition.
%D 1994
ISBN 0-385-40475-1
%I Roc (mmp/b)
%D 1/99
ISBN 0-451-.....-.
h/cvr blurb:
A flat earth? Impossible. Kin Arad is the 210-year-old super-
visor in charge of resurfacing the newly named planet, Kingdom.
When she finds Jago Jalo, a man who has a cloak of invisibility
and should have died a thousand years ago, in her office, she de-
cides he must have an unusual tale. He has. He knows where such a
world is. It is like the medieval earth . . . almost. Leiv Eriks-
son is setting off for the New World, but he will never find it.
Instead he sails to the edge of the world and its eternal water-
fall.
It is obvious that this `earth' has been built by the Great
Spindle Kings, makers of universes, inventors of the strata mach-
ine and the ultimate in claustrophobes, anmd Jalo lures the human
Kin, the kung Marco Farfarer and the fifty-six-syllable-named
shand better known as Silver, to undertake a voyage of discovery
with him: the rewards must be beyond their dreams . . . or night-
mares.
p/b blurb:
The excavation showed that the fossilized plesiosaur had been
holding a placard which read, "End Nuclear Testing Now". That
was nothing unusual.
But then came a discovery of something which *did* intrigue
Kin Arad.
A flat earth was something new ...
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3. The Nomes Series (The Bromeliad)
Overtly for children, this series has proved popular for both adults
and children and may be found in either the childrens', or the sf &
fantasy sections of your bookstore - or in both... Diggers has been
made into a cartoon series by Cosgrove-Hall (- see 7.2 for the [o/p]
picture book based on this; and see the AFP-FAQ for more information).
uk editions have cover art by Josh Kirby.
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3.1 Truckers
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Truckers
%I Doubleday (h/cvr)
%D 9/89
ISBN 0-385-26961-7
%I Corgi (p/b)
%D 9/90
ISBN 0-552-52595-2
%I Delacorte (merkin h/cvr)
%D (not yet known)
ISBN (not yet known)
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.)
%D 1993
ISBN 0-552-14005-8
h/cvr blurb:
`Outside! What's it like?' Masklin looked blank. `Well,' he said,
`it's sort of big -' `Yes?' `And, er, there's a lot of it -'
`Yes? Yes?' `With, you know, things in it -'
...yes, _lots_ of things, and all of them a mystery to the thou-
sands of tiny nomes living under the floorboards of a large dep-
artment store, most of whom have never even set eyes upon the
outside world. Things like Day and Night and Sun and Rain don't
really exist, say all intelligent nomes. They're just daft old
legends.
But soon a devestating piece of news is to shatter the nomes' ex-
istence: the Store - their world - is to be demolished...
So it's up to Masklin, the last nome to come into the Store, to
mastermind the unbelievable escape plan that will take all the
nomes into the dangers of the great Outside.
It means they have to think. And they have to think BIG.
And they start to learn who they are and how they came to be
there, and where their fantastic journey must one day take them.
p/b Blurb:
To the thousands of tiny nomes who live under the floorboards
of a large department store, there is no Outside. Things like
Day and Night, Sun and Rain are just daft old legends.
Then a devastating piece of news shatters their existence:
the Store - their whole world - is to be demolished. And it's
up to Masklin, one of the last nomes to come into the Store,
to mastermind an unbelievable escape plan that will take all
the nomes into the dangers of the great Outside ...
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3.2 Diggers
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Diggers
%I Doubleday (h/cvr)
%D 4/90
ISBN 0-385-26980-3
%I Corgi (p/b)
%D 4/91
ISBN 0-552-52586-3
%I Delacorte (merkin h/cvr)
%D (not yet known)
ISBN (not yet known)
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.)
%D 1993
ISBN 0-552-14006-6
h/cvr blurb:
`In the beginning...Arnold Bros (est. 1905) created the Store.'
When their home, a large department store, was demolished, thou-
sands of tiny nomes made a daring and dramatic escape on a stolen
lorry - and only just in the nick of time. The abandoned quarry
they found was perfect for their needs.
At last they are safe. Or are they?
Soon strange things start to happen. Like the tops of puddles
growing hard and cold, and the water coming down from the sky
in frozen bits. Worse is to come though. The quarry is to be
re-opened - their new home is under threat.
A newspaper cutting sends three brave nomes off on a desperate
mission which, if it succeeds, could lead them all to their ult-
imate home...
Meanwhile, back at the quarry, the remaining nomes prepare to
defend their home against the intruders. But how long will they
be able to keep the humans at bay - even _with_ the help of the
monster Jekub?
p/b blurb:
`And Grimma said, We have two choices. We can run, or we hide.
And they said, Which shall we do? She said, We shall Fight.'
A Bright New Dawn is just around the corner for thousands of
tiny nomes when they move into the ruined buildings of an
abandoned quarry. Or is it?
Soon strange things start to happen. Like the tops of puddles
growing hard and cold, and the water coming down from the sky
in frozen bits. Then humans appear and they _really_ mess
everything up. The quarry is to be re-opened and the nomes
must fight to defend their new home. But how long will they
be able to keep the humans at bay - even _with_ the help of
the monster Jekub?
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3.3 Wings
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Wings
%I Doubleday (h/cvr)
%D 9/90
ISBN 0-385-40018-7
%I Corgi (p/b)
%D 9/91
ISBN 0-552-52649-5
%I Delacorte (merkin h/cvr)
%D (n.y.k.)
ISBN (n.y.k.)
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.)
%D 1993
ISBN 0-552-14007-4
h/cvr blurb:
`It loomed over them, so big that you had to keep on stepping
back and back to see how big it was. It wasn't a _thing_, it
was a bit of shaped sky...'
Somewhere in a place so far up there is no down, a ship is
waiting to take the nomes home - back to wherever they came
from. With their home in a quarry under threat, one nome -
Masklin - knows that they've got to find a way of contacting
this ship.
It means going to Florida (wherever that is), then getting to
the launch of a communications satellite (whatever _that_ is).
A ridiculous plan. Impossible. But Masklin doesn't know this
so he tries to do it anyway. And the first step is to try and
hitch a ride on a new kind of truck, a truck with wings -
Concorde ...
He doesn't want to cause any trouble. He only wants to steal
one of those space shuttle things. But when you're only four
inches high in a world full of humans, things have a nasty
habit of getting rather complicated...
p/b blurb:
Somewhere in a place so far up there is no down, a ship is
waiting to take the nomes home - back to wherever they came
from.
And one nome, Masklin, knows that they've got to try and
contact this ship.
It means going to Florida (wherever that is), then getting to
the launch of a communications satellite (whatever that is).
A ridiculous plan. Impossible.
But Masklin doesn't know this so he tries to do it anyway.
And the first step is to try and hitch a ride on a new kind
of truck, a truck with wings - Concorde ...
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3.4 The Bromeliad (omnibus of 3.1, .2 & .3)
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Bromeliad
%I Doubleday (h/cvr)
%D 5/11/98
ISBN 0-385-41044-1
h/cvr blurb:
Truckers
To the thousands of tiny nomes living under the floorboards of
a large department store, there is no Outside. No Day or Night,
no Sun or Rain. They're just daft old legends. Until the devest-
ating news that the Store is to be demolished. Now the nomes have
to think. And they have to think BIG...
Diggers
A Bright New Dawn is just around the corner for the nomes when
they move into an abandoned quarry. Or is it? For when humans
turn up, they begin to mess everything up again. Now the nomes
have two choices: to run, or to hide. Or, maybe, they could...
_fight_. But for how long can they keep the humans at bay - even
with the help of the monster Jekub?
Wings
It's a ridiculous plan. Impossible. To hitch a ride on a truck
with wings - Concorde. And then steal one of those space shuttle
things. But home is home, and the nomes want to go there. They
don't _mean_ to cause any trouble. Really...
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4. Young Adult Books
Aimed at the round-about-teenage market, "Young Adult books have fewer
teddy bears and more inner city grit" (so the man himself says).
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4.1 Only You Can Save Mankind
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Only You Can Save Mankind
%I Doubleday (h/cvr)
%D 9/92
ISBN 0-385-40308-9
%I Corgi (p/b)
%D 9/93
ISBN 0-552-13926-2
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.)
%D 5/95
ISBN 0-552-14008-2
h/cvr blurb:
The mighty alien fleet from the very latest computer game
thunders across the computer screen...
Hands poised on the joystick, Johnny prepares to blow them
into the usual million pieces...
And they send him a message: _WE SURRENDER._
They're not supposed to do that! Where does it say in the
manual that they're supposed to do that?
But they've done it. This time they don't want to die. They
just want to go home.
Johnny is the only human who knows. So he has to learn how to
wage all-out Peace, and they don't make joysticks with a
`Don't Fire' button...
It's hard, trying to Save Mankind from the Galactic Hordes.
It's even harder trying to save the Galactic Hordes from
Mankind. But it's only a game, isn't it.
_ISN'T IT?_
p/b blurb:
As the mighty alien fleet from the very latest computer game
thunders across the computer screen, Johnny prepares to blow
them into the usual million pieces.
And they send him a message:
_We Surrender._
They're not supposed to do that! They're supposed to die. And
computer joysticks don't have `Don't Fire' buttons...
It's hard enough, trying to save Mankind from the Galactic Hordes.
It's even harder trying to save the Galactic Hordes from Mankind.
But it's only a game, isn't it.
_Isn't It?_
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4.2 Johnny and the Dead
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Johnny and the Dead
%I Doubleday (h/cvr) d-j art John Avon
%D 5/93 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-385-40301-1
%I Corgi (p/b) cover art from the front of the h/cvr d-j.
%D 3/94
ISBN 0-552-52740-8 [this edition now out of print]
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.)
%D 1995
ISBN 0-552-14003-3
%I Corgi (p/b) cover art from the London Weekend Television dramatisation.
%D /95
ISBN 0-552-52842-0
h/cvr blurb:
`Call any time you like,' said the Alderman. `I'm always in.
That's something you learn to be good at, when you're dead...'
Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to).
But twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And the dead are
nothing like he expected. They don't lurch about. They don't
push through walls. They can't even _dance_ like they do in
videos. They're just people -- post-senior citizens -- and
they're always in.
At least, up until now. Now the council want to move them out
so the cemetery can be sold as a building site. But the dead
have learned a thing or two from Johnny. They're not going to
take it lying down... especially since it's Halloween tomorrow.
Besides, they're beginning to find that life is a lot more fun
than it was when they were... well... alive. Especially if they
break a few rules...
p/b blurb:
Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to).
But twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news
for them: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building
site. But the dead have learned a thing or two from Johnny.
They're not going to take it lying down... especially since
it's Halloween tomorrow.
Besides, they're beginning to find that life is a lot more fun
than it was when they were... well... alive. Especially if they
break a few rules...
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4.3 Johnny and the Bomb.
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Johnny and the Bomb
%I Doubleday (h/cvr)
%D 4/96
ISBN 0-385-40670-3
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.)
%D 1996
ISBN 0-552-14458-4
%I Corgi (p/b)
%D 2/97
ISBN 0-552-52968-0
h/cvr blurb:
THERE WAS A FLASH OF LIGHT, THE AIR FLICKERED... AND THE WORLD
CHANGED. IT'S MAY 21, 1941, THOUGHT JOHNNY. IT'S WAR.
Mrs Tachyon the bag-lady is not the sort of person you'd normally
_choose_ to hang out with. But when Johnny Maxwell and his friends
find her semi-conscious in an alley, they have to do _something_...
as long it it's not the kiss of life.
The more time Johnny spends with her, the more he finds that Mrs
Tachyon isn't the ranting old nutter everyone thinks she is.
She seems to hold the key to different times, different eras -
including the Blackbury Blitz in 1941. Suddenly _now_ isn't the
safe place Johnny once though it was, as he finds himself bound
up more and more with _then_. And, as time shifts beneath him,
and the shopping mall and TV arials melt into air-raid sirens and
ration books, Johnny wonders just how much changing the past can
really change the future...
This time-stoppingly funny, richly entertaining new adventure from
the master of fantastical and irreverent wit, Terry Pratchett, is
the third in the series about Johnny Maxwell, following _Only You
Can Save Mankind_ and _Johnny and the Dead_.
p/b blurb:
There was a flash of light, the air flickered... and the world
changed. It's May 21, 1941, thought Johnny. It's war.
Johnny Maxwell and his friends have to do _something_ when they
find Mrs Tachyon, the local bag lady, semi-conscious in an alley...
as long it it's not the kiss of life.
But there's more to Mrs Tachyon than a squeaky trolley and a bunch
of dubious black bags. Somehow she holds the key to different times,
different eras - including the Blackbury Blitz in 1941. Suddenly now
isn't the safe place Johnny once though it was, as he finds himself
bound up more and more with then...
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4.4 (omnibus of 4.1, 4.2 & 4.3)
[there is currently no plan for an omnibus of the johnny maxwell books,
so far as the transworld rep. is aware.]
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5. Collaborations
This section details those books that Terry has written with other
authors. See also 7a. the "Discworld Non-Fiction & Art Books" section.
The revised edition of _The Carpet People_ arguably belongs amongst
"Collaborations" - but as the first, original edition is in the "Pre-
Discworld" section, the revised is also listed there [see 2.2].
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5.1 Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman)
%A Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
%T Good Omens
%I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) d-j art Chris Moore
%D 5/90, 3/95 (2nd impr.)
ISBN 0-575-04800-X
%I Workman (merkin h/cvr)
[text differs slightly: see the FAQ for details. other publishers' editions
follow this, with their own typoes, literals, etc, where re-set.]
%D 1990 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-894-80853-2
%I Corgi (p/b) cover art Graham Ward
%D 5/91
ISBN 0-552-13703-0
%I Berkeley (tp/b)
%D 3/92
ISBN 0-425-13215-3
%I Ace (mmp/b)
%D 5/96
ISBN 0-441-00325-7
h/cvr blurb:
According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter -
the world's only _totally reliable_ guide to the future - the
world will end on a Saturday.
Next Saturday, in fact.
Just after tea.
Which means that Armageddon will happen on a Saturday night.
There will be seas of fire, rains of fish, the moon turning to
blood and the massed armies of Heaven and Hell will sort it out
once and for all.
Which is a major problem for Crowley, Hell's most approachable
demon and former serpent, and his opposite number and old friend
Aziraphale, genuine angel and Soho bookshop owner. They _like_ it
down here (or, in Crowley's case, _up_ here).
So they've got no alternative but to stop the Four Motorcyclists
of the Apocalypse, defeat the marching ranks of the Witchfinder's
army* and - somehow - stop it all happening.
Above all (or, in Aziraphale's case, _below_ all) they need to
find and kill the Antichrist, currently the most powerful creature
on Earth.
This is a shame.
Because he's eleven years old, loves his dog even though it's real-
ly a Satanic hellhound under all that hair, really cares about the
environment and is the sort of boy anyone would be proud to have as
a son. He's also totally invulnerable, and a nice kid.
And if that isn't enough, they've still got Sunday to deal with. . .
* All two of them.
p/b blurb:
According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter -
the world's only _totally reliable_ guide to the future - the
world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after
tea...
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5.2 The Unadulterated Cat (with Gray Joliffe)
%A Terry Pratchett and Gray Joliffe
%T The Unadulterated Cat
%I Victor Gollancz
%D 10/89 non-standard [larger than b] format p/b [line-and-fill illoes]
ISBN 0-575-04628-7 [this edition is out of print.]
%I Victor Gollancz a format p/b, line illoes
%D 9/92
ISBN 0-575-05369-0 [this edition is out of print, replaced by:]
ISBN 0-575-06104-9 [this edition is out of print, replaced by:]
%I Vista (a format p/b) [line illoes]
%D 1997
ISBN 0-575-60155-8
first edition p/b blurb:
Can you recognise a real, unadulterated cat when you see one?
Or have you too grown used to the boring, mass-produced cats
the advertising industry adores?
Real cats never eat from bowls (at least not the ones marked
CAT).
Real cats never wear flea collars . . . or appear on birthday
cards . . . or chase anything with a bell in it.
Real cats do eat quiche. And giblets. And butter. And anything
else left on the table. They can hear a fridge door opening two
rooms away.
Real cats don't need names. But they often get called them.
"Yaargeroffoutofityarbastard" does nicely.
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6. Translations
Terry Pratchett's works have been translated into several languages.
The ISBN numbers for these editions are listed here, if afpers have
seen and reported them, or the information been gleaned from other
sources.
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6.1 Dutch [information added 12/12/98: many thanks to daniel proost]
%A Terry Pratchett
%T De Kleur van Toverij [The Colour of Magic]
%I Het Spectrum
%D 1991
ISBN 90-274-2757-7
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Dat Wonderbare Licht [The Light Fantastic]
%I Het Spectrum
%D
ISBN 90-274-....-.
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Meidezeggenschap [Equal Rites]
%I Het Spectrum
%D 1992
ISBN 90-274-2901-4
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Dunne Hein [Mort]
%I Het Spectrum
%D 1992
ISBN 90-274-2995-2
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Betoverkind [Sourcery]
%I Het Spectrum
%D 1992
ISBN 90-274-3103-5
%A Terry Pratchett
%T De Plaagzusters [Wyrd Sisters]
%I Het Spectrum
%D
ISBN 90-274-3163-9
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Pyramides [Pyramids]
%I Het Spectrum
%D
ISBN 90-274-3242-2
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Wacht! Wacht! [Guards! Guards!]
%I Het Spectrum
%D
ISBN 90-274-
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Erik [Eric]
%I Het Spectrum
%D
ISBN 90-274-
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Rollende Prenten [Moving Pictures]
%I Het Spectrum
%D
ISBN 90-274-
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Maaierstijd [Reaper Man]
%I Het Spectrum
%D
ISBN 90-274-
Non-Discworld novel:
%A Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
%T Hoge Omens [Good Omens]
%I Het Spectrum
%D 1994
ISBN 90-274-2907-3
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6.2 Finnish
The Unadulterated Cat has been published in Finnish as "Tosikissa ei
kirppuja kiroile" (Art House, 1990, Helsinki).
Wyrd Sisters is translated as "Noitasiskot", Mort as "Mort", and Reaper Man
as "Viikatemies" - all with the original Josh Kirby cover.
1.19 Maskerade
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Maskerade
%I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) [first h/cvr with letterbox style d-j. ab initio.]
%D 11/95 (actually available in october)
ISBN 0-575-05808-0
%I corgi (p/b)
%D 11/96
ISBN 0-552-14236-0
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.)
%D 11/96
ISBN 0-552-14426-6
%I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr) (cvr: carl d. galian)
%D 10/97
ISBN 0-06-105251-5
%I HarperPrism (mmp/b)
%D 10/98
ISBN 0-06-105691-X
h/cvr blurb:
The Opera House, Ankh Morpork . . . a huge, rambling building,
where masked figures and hooded shadows do wicked deeds in the
wings . . . where dying the death on stage is a little bit more
than just a metaphor . . . where innocent young sopranos are
lured to their destiny by an evil mastermind in a hideously
deformed evening dress . . .
Where . . . there's a couple of old ladies in pointy hats eating
peanuts in the stalls and looking at the big chandelier and
saying things like: 'There's an accident waiting to happen if
ever I saw one'.
Yes . . . Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, the Discworld's
greatest witches, are back for an innocent night at the opera.
So there's going to be _trouble_ (but nevertheless a good
evening's entertainment with murders you can really _hum_)
p/b blurb:
The Opera House, Ankh Morpork . . . a huge, rambling building,
where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by an
evil mastermind in a hideously deformed evening dress...
At least, he hopes so. But Granny Weatherwax, Discworld's most
famous witch, is in the audience. _And she doesn't hold with
that sort of thing._
So there's going to be _trouble_ (but nevertheless a good
evening's entertainment with murders you can really _hum_...)
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1.20 Feet of Clay
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Feet of Clay
%I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) [h/cvr with letterbox style dj. ab initio.]
%D 5/96 (actually available in april) [csm has advised date 6/6/96 !]
ISBN 0-575-05900-1
%I Corgi (p/b)
%D 2/5/97 (actually available from 28/4/97)
ISBN 0-552-14237-9
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.)
%D 1/7/97 (actually available 30/6/97)
ISBN 0-552-14573-4
%I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr) (cvr: - ? - [not seen])
%D 10/96
ISBN 0-06-10....-. (n.y.k.)
%I HarperPrism (mmp/b) (cvr: michael sabanosh)
%D 10/97
ISBN 0-06-105764-9
h/cvr blurb:
Who's murdering harmless old men? who's poisoning the Patrician?
As autumn fogs hold Anhk-Morpork in their grip, the City Watch
have to track down a murderer who can't be seen.
Maybe the golems know something - but the solemn men of clay,
who work all day and night and are never any trouble to anyone,
have started to commit suicide ...
It's not as if the Watch hasn't got problems of its own. There's
a werewolf suffering from Pre-Lunar Tension. Corporal Nobbs is
hob-nobbing with the nobs, and there's something really strange
about the new dwarf recruit, especially his earrings and
eyeshadow.
Who can you trust when there are mobs on the streets and
plotters in the dark and all the clues point the wrong way?
In the gloom of the night, Watch Commander Sir Samuel Vimes
finds that the truth might not be out there at all.
*_It may be in amongst the words in the head._*
A chilling tale of poison and pottery.
p/b blurb:
THERE'S A WEREWOLF WITH PRE-LUNAR TENSIOM IN ANKH-MORPORK. AND A
DWARF WITH ATTITUDE AND A GOLEM WHO'S BEGUN TO THINK FOR ITSELF.
But for Commander Vimes, Head of Ankh-Morpork City Watch, that's
only the start...
There's treason in the air.
A crime has happened.
He's not only got to find out whodunit, but howdunit too. He's not
even sure what they dun. But as soon as he knows what the questions
are, he's going to want some answers.
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1.21 Hogfather
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Hogfather
%I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) [h/cvr with letterbox style dj. ab initio.]
%D 11/96 (actually available 10/96)
ISBN 0-575-06403-X
%I Corgi (p/b)
%D 2/11/97 [announced] (actually on sale in netherlands & scandawegia 10/97)
ISBN 0-552-14542-4
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.)
%D 12/12/97 (was scheduled for 1/11/97)
ISBN 0-552-14574-2
%I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr)
%D 10/98
ISBN 0-06-105046-6
%I HarperPrism (mmp/b)
%D 10/99 [scheduled]
ISBN 0-06-10....-. (n.y.k.)
h/cvr blurb:
It's the night before Hogswatch. And it's too quiet.
There's snow, there're robins, there're trees covered with decora-
tions, but there's a notable lack of the big fat man who delivers
the toys . . .
He's _gone_.
Susan the governess has got to find him before morning, otherwise
the sun won't rise. And unfortunately her only helpers are a raven
with an eyeball fixation, the Death of Rats and an oh god of hang-
overs.
Worse still, _someone_ is coming down the chimney. This time he's
carrying a sack instead of a scythe, but there's something regret-
tably familiar . . .
Ho. Ho. Ho.
It's true what they say.
`_You'd better watch out . . ._'
p/b blurb:
IT'S THE NIGHT BEFORE HOGSWATCH. AND IT'S TOO QUIET.
Where is the big jolly fat man? Why is _Death_ creeping down
chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho? The darkest night of the
year is getting a lot darker...
Susan the gothic governess has got to sort it out by morning,
otherwise there won't _be_ a morning. Ever again...
[The 20th..novel..a festive feast of darkness and Death (but
with jolly robins and tinsel too).]
As they say: You'd better watch out...
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1.22 Jingo
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Jingo
%I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) [h/cvr with letterbox style dj. ab initio.]
%D 6/11/97 [on sale in uk by 22/10/98]
ISBN 0-575-06540-0
%I Corgi (p/b)
%D 5/11/98
ISBN 0-552-14598-X
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.)
%D 5/11/98
ISBN 0-552-14684-6
%I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr)
%D 5/98
ISBN 0-06-105047-4 (cover art by michael sabanosh)
%I HarperPrism (mmp/b)
%D 3/99
ISBN 0-06-105906-4 (cover art by michael sabanosh)
h/cvr blurb:
A weather cock has risen from the sea of Discworld, and suddenly
you can tell which way the wind is blowing.
A new land has surfaced, and so have old feuds.
And as two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch
has got just a few hours to deal with a crime so big that there's
no law against it. It's called `war'.
He's facing unpleasant foes who are out to get him... that's just
the people on _his_ side. The enemy might be even worse. And his
pocket Dis-organiser says he's got _Die_ under `Things To Do Today'.
But he'd better not, because the world's cleverest inventor and its
most devious politician are on their way to the battlefield with a
little package that's _guaranteed_ to stop a battle...
Discworld goes to war, with armies of sardines, warriors, fishermen,
squid and at least one very camp follower.
p/b blurb:
DISCWORLD GOES TO WAR, WITH ARMIES OF SARDINES, WARRIORS, FISHER-
MEN, SQUID AND AT LEAST ONE VERY CAMP FOLLOWER
As two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch
faces unpleasant foes who are out to get him...and theat's just the
people on his side. The enemy mighht be even worse.
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1.23 The Last Continent
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Last Continent
%I Doubleday (h/cvr) [h/cvr with non-letterbox style dj.]
%D 2/5/98 [on sale in uk & europe by 24/4/98]
ISBN 0-385-40989-3
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.)
%D 30/4/98
ISBN 0-552-14650-1
%I Isis (?six- or eight-? cassette audio/b)
%D 2/99 [scheduled]
ISBN 1-85695-...-.
%I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr)
%D 3/99
ISBN 0-06-105048-2 2
%I corgi (p/b)
%D 29/4/99 [on sale 3/3/99 in israel, the netherlands, switzerland]
ISBN 0-552-14614-5
%I HarperPrism (mmp/b)
%D 3/00 [Y2k - eeek !] [scheduled]
ISBN 0-06-10....-. (n.y.k.)
h/cvr blurb:
This is the Discworld's last continent, a completely separate
creation.
It's hot. It's dry . . . very dry. There was this thing once
called The Wet, which no one now believes in. Practically
everything that's not poisonous is venemous. But it's the best
bloody place in the world, all right?
And it'll die in a few days, except . . .
Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Champion sheep
shearer, horse rider, road warrior, beer drinker, bush ranger
and someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's _sober?_
A man in a hat, whose Luggage follows him around on little legs,
who's about to change history by preventing a swagman stealing
a jumbuck by a billabong?
Yes . . . all this place has between itself and wind-blown doom
is Rincewind, the inept wizard who can't even _spell_ wizard.
He's the only hero left.
Still . . . no worries, eh?
Terry Pratchett would like it to be known that _The Last Continent_
is not a book about Australia. It's just vaguely australian.
p/b blurb:
IT'S THE DISCWORLD'S LAST CONTINENT AND IT'S GOING TO DIE IN A
FEW DAYS, EXCEPT...
Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Sheep shearer,
beer drinker, bush ranger, and someone who'll even eat a Meat
Pie Floater when he's sober.
A man in a hat whose luggage follows him on little legs. Yes,
it's Rincewind, the inept wizard who can't even spell wizard.
He's the only hero left.
Still...no worries, eh?
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1.24 The Death Trilogy
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Death Trilogy
%I Gollancz (h/cvr) [non-letterbox style dj.]
[n.b. as with The Witches Trilogy, 1.17, the pages of this h/cvr are not
properly sewn in signatures, and then sewn to a backing strip of cloth
that is then bound between the boards of the cover: they are merely
trimmed and glued to a flexible bound-in backing strip.]
%D 22/10/98 [on sale by 7/10/98]
ISBN 0-575-06584-2
Omnibus collecting Mort, Reaper Man and Soul Music.
Introducing the Discworld's most popular character - the fellow
with the white horse and the ultimate weight-loss programme . . .
DEATH
Here are three novels featuring Terry Pratchett's most celebrated
denizen of the Discworld, together with the usual motley cast, in-
cluding Death's granddaughter Susan, Binky and the Death of Rats.
MORT
Death, having delegated most of his duties to his new apprentice,
the uncompromising, gangling teenager Mort, is showing disturbing-
ly human characteristics: drinking, dice-playing and becoming cur-
ious about the nature of Fun . . .
REAPER MAN
Death is missing, presumed . . . er . . . gone. Which leads to the
kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is
withdrawn.
SOUL MUSIC
It's hard to grow up normally when grandfather rides a white horse
and wields a scythe - especially when you have to take over the fam-
ily business and everyone keeps mistaking you for the Tooth Fairy.
But Susan must face the new music that has entered the Discworld:
it's lawless, it changes people . . . it's called Music With Rocks
In. And it won't fade away . . .
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1.25 Carpe Jugulum
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Carpe Jugulum
%I Doubleday (h/cvr)
%D 5/11/98 [on sale in holland, belgium, scandawegia & merkia a week earlier]
ISBN 0-385-40992-3
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.)
%D 5/11/98
ISBN 0-552-14653-6
%I corgi (p/b)
%D 11/99 [scheduled]
ISBN 0-552-.....-. (n.y.k.)
%I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr)
%D 9/99 [scheduled]
ISBN 0-06-10....-. (n.y.k.)
%I HarperPrism (mmp/b)
%D c.9/00 [y2k - eeek !][guesstimated]
ISBN 0-06-10....-. (n.y.k.)
h/cvr blurb:
Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. He thought
he'd come to the mountain kingdom of Lancre for a simple little
religious ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires
and witches, and he's not sure there _is_ a right side.
There're the witches - young Agnes, who is _really_ in two minds
about everything, Magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and
nappies, Nanny Ogg, who is far too knowing... and Granny Weatherwax,
who is big trouble.
And the vampires are _intelligent_ - not easily got rid of with a
garlic enema or bu going to the window, grasping the curtains and
saying, "I don't know about you, but isn't it a bit stuffy in here?"
They've got style and fancy waistcoats.
They're out of the casket and want a bite of the future.
Mightily Oats knows he has a prayer, but wishes he had an axe.
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1.26 The Colour of Magic: The Light Fantastic: The First Discworld Novels
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Colour of Magic: The Light Fantastic: The First Discworld Novels
%I Colin Smythe (h/cvr) [h/cvr with letterbox-style dj]
%D 8/5/99
ISBN 0-86140-421-1
This is how the Discworld began...
In _The Colour of Magic_ the failed wizard Rincewind burst
upon the world and hasn't stopped running since.
This was the book that started the phenomenally successful
series. Here is the sapient pearwood luggage, a mobile trunk
which launders any clothes put it in [sic] and incidentally
homicidally defends its owner. Here is Twoflower, an innocent
tourist in a world of nightmares and fairy tales gone wrong.
Here is Cohen the Barbarian, the world's oldest and greatest
hero. Here is Death, not such a bad sort when you get to know
him...
They have adventures. It'd take too long to explain. Just
read it!
[source: colin smythe 4/99][the dj blurb error noted above
will be corrected during the life of the first edition of
the omnibus - source: colin smythe 4/5/99][which corrected
dj + volume will technically constitute the second state of
the first edition. ppint.]
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1.27 City Watch Trilogy (Omnibus of 1.8, 1.15 & 1.20, i suspect)
%A Terry Pratchett
%T [? The City Watch Trilogy ?]
%I Gollancz (h/cvr) [prob'ly non-letterbox style dj.]
%D 10/99 [scheduled]
ISBN 0-575-.....-.
[n.b. - as with The Witches Trilogy, 1.17, the pages of this h/cvr are
unlikely to be properly sewn in signatures, and then sewn to a backing
strip of cloth that is then bound between the boards of the cover: they
are most likely trimmed and glued to a flexible bound-in backing strip.]
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1.28 The Fifth Elephant
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Fifth Elephant
%I Doubleday (h/cvr)
%D 11/99 [scheduled]
ISBN 0-385-.....-. (n.y.k.)
%I corgi (p/b)
%D 11/00 [estimated][yr2k - eek !]
ISBN 0-552-.....-. (n.y.k.)
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.)
%D 11/99 [estimated]
ISBN 0-552-.....-. (n.y.k.)
%I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr)
%D 3/00 [y2k - eeek !] [scheduled]
ISBN 0-06-10....-. (n.y.k.)
%I HarperPrism (mmp/b)
%D c.3/01 [guesstimated]
ISBN 0-06-10....-. (n.y.k.)
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1.29 [none yet announced on schedules]
%A Terry Pratchett
%T [n.y.k.]
%I Doubleday (h/cvr)
%D 5 or 11/00 [estimated][yr2k - eek !]
ISBN 0-385-.....-. (n.y.k.)
%I corgi (p/b)
%D 5 or 11/01 [estimated]
ISBN 0-552-.....-. (n.y.k.)
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.)
%D 5 or 11/00 [estimated][yr2k - eek !]
ISBN 0-552-.....-. (n.y.k.)
terry has, more than once, said he feels he may slow down,
or take a holiday from the discworld - and equally often
discovered that there was another discworld story that in-
sisted on being told, or another story that proved to be
as well-suited to being set therein; and, that he has no
intention of writing "the last discworld novel", other than
in the sense that he himself is mortal and that he will not
permit his creation to be franchised or otherwise given the
artificial semblence of life thereafter, by any other hand.
i, for one, will eagerly pounce upon any novel i find with
his byline, whatever the world in which it is set, having
greatly enjoyed all that he's had published, and not just
the nowadays best-selling discworld novels: see below, for
quite how much more than two dozen such, are available.
[ppint.]
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2. Pre-Discworld
These books are Terry's earlier efforts, and came before the success
of "The Colour of Magic"; though The Carpet People was re-written later.
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2.1 The Carpet People (1st Edition)
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Carpet People
%I Colin Smythe (h/cvr)
%D 11/71 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-900675-49-7
Price : ukL 1.90 [1.90 GBP] Hardback 17cm x 22cm, 195 pages
33 B&W illustrations by _the author_; a few copies hand-coloured
by him. Cover shows various creatures licking a large white cube.
h/cvr blurb:
The is magic in every carpet. Cities and villages exist right under
your feet and the people who live in them are so small that each
tuft of wool stretches high above them like giant trees. A grain
of sugar which has somehow found its way into the world of the
carpet people, becomes a favourite mountain for the carpet animals
where they go as often as possible. Dust plants make up a wonderful
vegetation, and the world of the carpet people is as real to them
as the earth is to us.
But there are also creatures who live in the underlay; they appear
to be allies of that terrible and powerful Fray who lives above the
carpet. Whenever he passes above, he leaves destruction behind him
in the world of the carpet people, and the creatures of the underlay
try to take advantage of them.
This is the story of Snibril and Glurk, the leaders of the carpet
people and how they finally defeat the servants of Fray. It is full
of magic battles and the day to day struggle of the brave and
ingenious carpet people.
Children of all ages, from 5 to 50 will enjoy this book, and the
world of the Carpet People in the reader's own home will add a new
dimension to his imagination.
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2.2 The Carpet People (revised edition)
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Carpet People
%I Doubleday (h/cvr)
%D 1992
ISBN 0-385-40304-6
%I corgi (p/b)
%D 4/93
ISBN 0-552-52752-1
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.)
%D 4/9/97
ISBN 0-552-54552-X
h/cvr blurb:
In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness.
Then came the Carpet...
That's the old story everyone knows and loves (even if they
don't really _believe_ it). For now the Carpet is home for
many different tribes and peoples - from the empire-building
Dumii, to the nomadic Munrungs, the proud Deftmenes, and the
terrible creatures from the Unswept Regions. And there's a
new story in the making.
The story of the time when Fray begins to move, sweeping a
trail of destruction across the Carpet.
The story of the power-hungry mouls, saddling up their snargs
and riding to the attack.
The story of Glurk and Snibril, Munrung brothers, who set out
on an adventure to end all adventures when their village is
flattened.
The story that will come to a terrible end - if someone
doesn't do something about it. If _everyone_ doesn't do
something about it...
p/b blurb:
as for h/cvr, with "But now.. ..to many..." for "For now..
..for many..." at start 2nd para; and "..peoples and now
there's a new story in the making. The story of Fray,
sweeping a trail of destruction across the Carpet. The
story of power-hungry mouls - and of two Munrung brothers,
who set out on an adventure to end all adventures when
their village is flattened.
It's a story that will come to a terrible end - if someone
doesn't do something about it. If _everyone_ doesn't do
something about it..."
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2.3 The Dark Side of the Sun
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Dark Side of the Sun
%I Colin Smythe (h/cvr)
%D 1/76 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-901072-20-6
this h/cvr edition's dust-jacket art is by Terry, 1973, as is the St.Martins;
%I St. Martin's (merkin h/cvr) [a modified run-on of the Colin Smythe edn.]
%D 1976 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-........-.
%I New English Library (p/b) cover art by Tim White.
%D 3/78 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-450-03298-1
%I Signet (mmp/b)
%D (not yet known) [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-451-.....-.
%I Corgi (p/b) cover art by Josh Kirby.
%D 4/88
ISBN 0-552-13326-4
%I Doubleday (h/cvr) dust-jacket art from the Corgi p/b edition.
%D 1994
ISBN 0-385-40476-X
h/cvr blurb:
_Probability Math:_ the science of foretelling the future. For
Dom Sabalos, heir to an immensely rich family, its forecasts
were curiously contradictory: he would be assassinated, and
_after_ that, find the fabulous, almost mythical, world of the
Jokers, who were only known by a few incredible artifacts
scattered throughout the Galaxy.
Any good P-Mathematician could find out this information. Some-
body certainly wanted to prove P-Math wrong as far as Dom was
concerned, and make sure that once he was dead, he stayed dead. A
robot assassin, with built-in `luck', had been put on his tail,
but what was it that protected Dom every time the assassin
struck?
To be sure, he had an excellent robot servant, Isaac; (class 5
with Man-Friday subcircuitry). a planet (the First Syrian Bank)
as a god-father, a determined and protective grandmother (who
looked as if she had been born aged eighty), a security chief who
even ran checks on himself, and a home world, where a missing
hand was only a minor mishap and even death was not always fatal
- but what protected Dom on his search for the world which he
knew lay on the dark side of the sun:?
p/b blurb:
Dom Salabos had a lot of advantages.
As heir to a huge fortune, he had an excellent robot
servant (with Man-Friday subcircuity), a planet (the First
Syrian Bank) as a godfather, a security chief who even ran
checks on himself, and on Dom's home world even death was
not always fatal.
Why then, in an age when prediction was a science, was his
future in doubt?
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2.4 Strata
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Strata
%I Colin Smythe (h/cvr)
%D 6/81 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-901072-91-5
this h/cvr edition's dust-jacket art is by Tim White, as is the St.Martin's;
%I St. Martin's (merkin h/cvr) [a modified run-on of the Colin Smythe edn.]
%D c.1981 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-........-.
%I New English Library (p/b) new cover art by Tim White.
%D 5/82 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-450-04977-9
%I Signet (mmp/b)
%D 3/83 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-451-12147-3
%I Roc (mmp/b) LE5111 cover art by Darrell K. Sweet.
%D [?][3rd printing of the mmp/b] [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-451-45111-2
%I Corgi (p/b) cover art by Josh Kirby.
%D 1988 [re-set 1990]
ISBN 0-552-13325-6
%I Doubleday (h/cvr) dust-jacket art from the Corgi p/b edition.
%D 1994
ISBN 0-385-40475-1
%I Roc (mmp/b)
%D 1/99
ISBN 0-451-.....-.
h/cvr blurb:
A flat earth? Impossible. Kin Arad is the 210-year-old super-
visor in charge of resurfacing the newly named planet, Kingdom.
When she finds Jago Jalo, a man who has a cloak of invisibility
and should have died a thousand years ago, in her office, she de-
cides he must have an unusual tale. He has. He knows where such a
world is. It is like the medieval earth . . . almost. Leiv Eriks-
son is setting off for the New World, but he will never find it.
Instead he sails to the edge of the world and its eternal water-
fall.
It is obvious that this `earth' has been built by the Great
Spindle Kings, makers of universes, inventors of the strata mach-
ine and the ultimate in claustrophobes, anmd Jalo lures the human
Kin, the kung Marco Farfarer and the fifty-six-syllable-named
shand better known as Silver, to undertake a voyage of discovery
with him: the rewards must be beyond their dreams . . . or night-
mares.
p/b blurb:
The excavation showed that the fossilized plesiosaur had been
holding a placard which read, "End Nuclear Testing Now". That
was nothing unusual.
But then came a discovery of something which *did* intrigue
Kin Arad.
A flat earth was something new ...
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3. The Nomes Series (The Bromeliad)
Overtly for children, this series has proved popular for both adults
and children and may be found in either the childrens', or the sf &
fantasy sections of your bookstore - or in both... Diggers has been
made into a cartoon series by Cosgrove-Hall (- see 7.2 for the [o/p]
picture book based on this; and see the AFP-FAQ for more information).
uk editions have cover art by Josh Kirby.
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3.1 Truckers
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Truckers
%I Doubleday (h/cvr)
%D 9/89
ISBN 0-385-26961-7
%I Corgi (p/b)
%D 9/90
ISBN 0-552-52595-2
%I Delacorte (merkin h/cvr)
%D (not yet known)
ISBN (not yet known)
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.)
%D 1993
ISBN 0-552-14005-8
h/cvr blurb:
`Outside! What's it like?' Masklin looked blank. `Well,' he said,
`it's sort of big -' `Yes?' `And, er, there's a lot of it -'
`Yes? Yes?' `With, you know, things in it -'
...yes, _lots_ of things, and all of them a mystery to the thou-
sands of tiny nomes living under the floorboards of a large dep-
artment store, most of whom have never even set eyes upon the
outside world. Things like Day and Night and Sun and Rain don't
really exist, say all intelligent nomes. They're just daft old
legends.
But soon a devestating piece of news is to shatter the nomes' ex-
istence: the Store - their world - is to be demolished...
So it's up to Masklin, the last nome to come into the Store, to
mastermind the unbelievable escape plan that will take all the
nomes into the dangers of the great Outside.
It means they have to think. And they have to think BIG.
And they start to learn who they are and how they came to be
there, and where their fantastic journey must one day take them.
p/b Blurb:
To the thousands of tiny nomes who live under the floorboards
of a large department store, there is no Outside. Things like
Day and Night, Sun and Rain are just daft old legends.
Then a devastating piece of news shatters their existence:
the Store - their whole world - is to be demolished. And it's
up to Masklin, one of the last nomes to come into the Store,
to mastermind an unbelievable escape plan that will take all
the nomes into the dangers of the great Outside ...
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3.2 Diggers
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Diggers
%I Doubleday (h/cvr)
%D 4/90
ISBN 0-385-26980-3
%I Corgi (p/b)
%D 4/91
ISBN 0-552-52586-3
%I Delacorte (merkin h/cvr)
%D (not yet known)
ISBN (not yet known)
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.)
%D 1993
ISBN 0-552-14006-6
h/cvr blurb:
`In the beginning...Arnold Bros (est. 1905) created the Store.'
When their home, a large department store, was demolished, thou-
sands of tiny nomes made a daring and dramatic escape on a stolen
lorry - and only just in the nick of time. The abandoned quarry
they found was perfect for their needs.
At last they are safe. Or are they?
Soon strange things start to happen. Like the tops of puddles
growing hard and cold, and the water coming down from the sky
in frozen bits. Worse is to come though. The quarry is to be
re-opened - their new home is under threat.
A newspaper cutting sends three brave nomes off on a desperate
mission which, if it succeeds, could lead them all to their ult-
imate home...
Meanwhile, back at the quarry, the remaining nomes prepare to
defend their home against the intruders. But how long will they
be able to keep the humans at bay - even _with_ the help of the
monster Jekub?
p/b blurb:
`And Grimma said, We have two choices. We can run, or we hide.
And they said, Which shall we do? She said, We shall Fight.'
A Bright New Dawn is just around the corner for thousands of
tiny nomes when they move into the ruined buildings of an
abandoned quarry. Or is it?
Soon strange things start to happen. Like the tops of puddles
growing hard and cold, and the water coming down from the sky
in frozen bits. Then humans appear and they _really_ mess
everything up. The quarry is to be re-opened and the nomes
must fight to defend their new home. But how long will they
be able to keep the humans at bay - even _with_ the help of
the monster Jekub?
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3.3 Wings
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Wings
%I Doubleday (h/cvr)
%D 9/90
ISBN 0-385-40018-7
%I Corgi (p/b)
%D 9/91
ISBN 0-552-52649-5
%I Delacorte (merkin h/cvr)
%D (n.y.k.)
ISBN (n.y.k.)
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.)
%D 1993
ISBN 0-552-14007-4
h/cvr blurb:
`It loomed over them, so big that you had to keep on stepping
back and back to see how big it was. It wasn't a _thing_, it
was a bit of shaped sky...'
Somewhere in a place so far up there is no down, a ship is
waiting to take the nomes home - back to wherever they came
from. With their home in a quarry under threat, one nome -
Masklin - knows that they've got to find a way of contacting
this ship.
It means going to Florida (wherever that is), then getting to
the launch of a communications satellite (whatever _that_ is).
A ridiculous plan. Impossible. But Masklin doesn't know this
so he tries to do it anyway. And the first step is to try and
hitch a ride on a new kind of truck, a truck with wings -
Concorde ...
He doesn't want to cause any trouble. He only wants to steal
one of those space shuttle things. But when you're only four
inches high in a world full of humans, things have a nasty
habit of getting rather complicated...
p/b blurb:
Somewhere in a place so far up there is no down, a ship is
waiting to take the nomes home - back to wherever they came
from.
And one nome, Masklin, knows that they've got to try and
contact this ship.
It means going to Florida (wherever that is), then getting to
the launch of a communications satellite (whatever that is).
A ridiculous plan. Impossible.
But Masklin doesn't know this so he tries to do it anyway.
And the first step is to try and hitch a ride on a new kind
of truck, a truck with wings - Concorde ...
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3.4 The Bromeliad (omnibus of 3.1, .2 & .3)
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Bromeliad
%I Doubleday (h/cvr)
%D 5/11/98
ISBN 0-385-41044-1
h/cvr blurb:
Truckers
To the thousands of tiny nomes living under the floorboards of
a large department store, there is no Outside. No Day or Night,
no Sun or Rain. They're just daft old legends. Until the devest-
ating news that the Store is to be demolished. Now the nomes have
to think. And they have to think BIG...
Diggers
A Bright New Dawn is just around the corner for the nomes when
they move into an abandoned quarry. Or is it? For when humans
turn up, they begin to mess everything up again. Now the nomes
have two choices: to run, or to hide. Or, maybe, they could...
_fight_. But for how long can they keep the humans at bay - even
with the help of the monster Jekub?
Wings
It's a ridiculous plan. Impossible. To hitch a ride on a truck
with wings - Concorde. And then steal one of those space shuttle
things. But home is home, and the nomes want to go there. They
don't _mean_ to cause any trouble. Really...
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4. Young Adult Books
Aimed at the round-about-teenage market, "Young Adult books have fewer
teddy bears and more inner city grit" (so the man himself says).
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4.1 Only You Can Save Mankind
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Only You Can Save Mankind
%I Doubleday (h/cvr)
%D 9/92
ISBN 0-385-40308-9
%I Corgi (p/b)
%D 9/93
ISBN 0-552-13926-2
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.)
%D 5/95
ISBN 0-552-14008-2
h/cvr blurb:
The mighty alien fleet from the very latest computer game
thunders across the computer screen...
Hands poised on the joystick, Johnny prepares to blow them
into the usual million pieces...
And they send him a message: _WE SURRENDER._
They're not supposed to do that! Where does it say in the
manual that they're supposed to do that?
But they've done it. This time they don't want to die. They
just want to go home.
Johnny is the only human who knows. So he has to learn how to
wage all-out Peace, and they don't make joysticks with a
`Don't Fire' button...
It's hard, trying to Save Mankind from the Galactic Hordes.
It's even harder trying to save the Galactic Hordes from
Mankind. But it's only a game, isn't it.
_ISN'T IT?_
p/b blurb:
As the mighty alien fleet from the very latest computer game
thunders across the computer screen, Johnny prepares to blow
them into the usual million pieces.
And they send him a message:
_We Surrender._
They're not supposed to do that! They're supposed to die. And
computer joysticks don't have `Don't Fire' buttons...
It's hard enough, trying to save Mankind from the Galactic Hordes.
It's even harder trying to save the Galactic Hordes from Mankind.
But it's only a game, isn't it.
_Isn't It?_
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4.2 Johnny and the Dead
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Johnny and the Dead
%I Doubleday (h/cvr) d-j art John Avon
%D 5/93 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-385-40301-1
%I Corgi (p/b) cover art from the front of the h/cvr d-j.
%D 3/94
ISBN 0-552-52740-8 [this edition now out of print]
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.)
%D 1995
ISBN 0-552-14003-3
%I Corgi (p/b) cover art from the London Weekend Television dramatisation.
%D /95
ISBN 0-552-52842-0
h/cvr blurb:
`Call any time you like,' said the Alderman. `I'm always in.
That's something you learn to be good at, when you're dead...'
Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to).
But twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And the dead are
nothing like he expected. They don't lurch about. They don't
push through walls. They can't even _dance_ like they do in
videos. They're just people -- post-senior citizens -- and
they're always in.
At least, up until now. Now the council want to move them out
so the cemetery can be sold as a building site. But the dead
have learned a thing or two from Johnny. They're not going to
take it lying down... especially since it's Halloween tomorrow.
Besides, they're beginning to find that life is a lot more fun
than it was when they were... well... alive. Especially if they
break a few rules...
p/b blurb:
Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to).
But twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news
for them: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building
site. But the dead have learned a thing or two from Johnny.
They're not going to take it lying down... especially since
it's Halloween tomorrow.
Besides, they're beginning to find that life is a lot more fun
than it was when they were... well... alive. Especially if they
break a few rules...
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4.3 Johnny and the Bomb.
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Johnny and the Bomb
%I Doubleday (h/cvr)
%D 4/96
ISBN 0-385-40670-3
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.)
%D 1996
ISBN 0-552-14458-4
%I Corgi (p/b)
%D 2/97
ISBN 0-552-52968-0
h/cvr blurb:
THERE WAS A FLASH OF LIGHT, THE AIR FLICKERED... AND THE WORLD
CHANGED. IT'S MAY 21, 1941, THOUGHT JOHNNY. IT'S WAR.
Mrs Tachyon the bag-lady is not the sort of person you'd normally
_choose_ to hang out with. But when Johnny Maxwell and his friends
find her semi-conscious in an alley, they have to do _something_...
as long it it's not the kiss of life.
The more time Johnny spends with her, the more he finds that Mrs
Tachyon isn't the ranting old nutter everyone thinks she is.
She seems to hold the key to different times, different eras -
including the Blackbury Blitz in 1941. Suddenly _now_ isn't the
safe place Johnny once though it was, as he finds himself bound
up more and more with _then_. And, as time shifts beneath him,
and the shopping mall and TV arials melt into air-raid sirens and
ration books, Johnny wonders just how much changing the past can
really change the future...
This time-stoppingly funny, richly entertaining new adventure from
the master of fantastical and irreverent wit, Terry Pratchett, is
the third in the series about Johnny Maxwell, following _Only You
Can Save Mankind_ and _Johnny and the Dead_.
p/b blurb:
There was a flash of light, the air flickered... and the world
changed. It's May 21, 1941, thought Johnny. It's war.
Johnny Maxwell and his friends have to do _something_ when they
find Mrs Tachyon, the local bag lady, semi-conscious in an alley...
as long it it's not the kiss of life.
But there's more to Mrs Tachyon than a squeaky trolley and a bunch
of dubious black bags. Somehow she holds the key to different times,
different eras - including the Blackbury Blitz in 1941. Suddenly now
isn't the safe place Johnny once though it was, as he finds himself
bound up more and more with then...
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4.4 (omnibus of 4.1, 4.2 & 4.3)
[there is currently no plan for an omnibus of the johnny maxwell books,
so far as the transworld rep. is aware.]
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5. Collaborations
This section details those books that Terry has written with other
authors. See also 7a. the "Discworld Non-Fiction & Art Books" section.
The revised edition of _The Carpet People_ arguably belongs amongst
"Collaborations" - but as the first, original edition is in the "Pre-
Discworld" section, the revised is also listed there [see 2.2].
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5.1 Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman)
%A Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
%T Good Omens
%I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) d-j art Chris Moore
%D 5/90, 3/95 (2nd impr.)
ISBN 0-575-04800-X
%I Workman (merkin h/cvr)
[text differs slightly: see the FAQ for details. other publishers' editions
follow this, with their own typoes, literals, etc, where re-set.]
%D 1990 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-894-80853-2
%I Corgi (p/b) cover art Graham Ward
%D 5/91
ISBN 0-552-13703-0
%I Berkeley (tp/b)
%D 3/92
ISBN 0-425-13215-3
%I Ace (mmp/b)
%D 5/96
ISBN 0-441-00325-7
h/cvr blurb:
According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter -
the world's only _totally reliable_ guide to the future - the
world will end on a Saturday.
Next Saturday, in fact.
Just after tea.
Which means that Armageddon will happen on a Saturday night.
There will be seas of fire, rains of fish, the moon turning to
blood and the massed armies of Heaven and Hell will sort it out
once and for all.
Which is a major problem for Crowley, Hell's most approachable
demon and former serpent, and his opposite number and old friend
Aziraphale, genuine angel and Soho bookshop owner. They _like_ it
down here (or, in Crowley's case, _up_ here).
So they've got no alternative but to stop the Four Motorcyclists
of the Apocalypse, defeat the marching ranks of the Witchfinder's
army* and - somehow - stop it all happening.
Above all (or, in Aziraphale's case, _below_ all) they need to
find and kill the Antichrist, currently the most powerful creature
on Earth.
This is a shame.
Because he's eleven years old, loves his dog even though it's real-
ly a Satanic hellhound under all that hair, really cares about the
environment and is the sort of boy anyone would be proud to have as
a son. He's also totally invulnerable, and a nice kid.
And if that isn't enough, they've still got Sunday to deal with. . .
* All two of them.
p/b blurb:
According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter -
the world's only _totally reliable_ guide to the future - the
world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after
tea...
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5.2 The Unadulterated Cat (with Gray Joliffe)
%A Terry Pratchett and Gray Joliffe
%T The Unadulterated Cat
%I Victor Gollancz
%D 10/89 non-standard [larger than b] format p/b [line-and-fill illoes]
ISBN 0-575-04628-7 [this edition is out of print.]
%I Victor Gollancz a format p/b, line illoes
%D 9/92
ISBN 0-575-05369-0 [this edition is out of print, replaced by:]
ISBN 0-575-06104-9 [this edition is out of print, replaced by:]
%I Vista (a format p/b) [line illoes]
%D 1997
ISBN 0-575-60155-8
first edition p/b blurb:
Can you recognise a real, unadulterated cat when you see one?
Or have you too grown used to the boring, mass-produced cats
the advertising industry adores?
Real cats never eat from bowls (at least not the ones marked
CAT).
Real cats never wear flea collars . . . or appear on birthday
cards . . . or chase anything with a bell in it.
Real cats do eat quiche. And giblets. And butter. And anything
else left on the table. They can hear a fridge door opening two
rooms away.
Real cats don't need names. But they often get called them.
"Yaargeroffoutofityarbastard" does nicely.
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6. Translations
Terry Pratchett's works have been translated into several languages.
The ISBN numbers for these editions are listed here, if afpers have
seen and reported them, or the information been gleaned from other
sources.
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6.1 Dutch [information added 12/12/98: many thanks to daniel proost]
%A Terry Pratchett
%T De Kleur van Toverij [The Colour of Magic]
%I Het Spectrum
%D 1991
ISBN 90-274-2757-7
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Dat Wonderbare Licht [The Light Fantastic]
%I Het Spectrum
%D
ISBN 90-274-....-.
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Meidezeggenschap [Equal Rites]
%I Het Spectrum
%D 1992
ISBN 90-274-2901-4
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Dunne Hein [Mort]
%I Het Spectrum
%D 1992
ISBN 90-274-2995-2
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Betoverkind [Sourcery]
%I Het Spectrum
%D 1992
ISBN 90-274-3103-5
%A Terry Pratchett
%T De Plaagzusters [Wyrd Sisters]
%I Het Spectrum
%D
ISBN 90-274-3163-9
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Pyramides [Pyramids]
%I Het Spectrum
%D
ISBN 90-274-3242-2
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Wacht! Wacht! [Guards! Guards!]
%I Het Spectrum
%D
ISBN 90-274-
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Erik [Eric]
%I Het Spectrum
%D
ISBN 90-274-
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Rollende Prenten [Moving Pictures]
%I Het Spectrum
%D
ISBN 90-274-
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Maaierstijd [Reaper Man]
%I Het Spectrum
%D
ISBN 90-274-
Non-Discworld novel:
%A Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
%T Hoge Omens [Good Omens]
%I Het Spectrum
%D 1994
ISBN 90-274-2907-3
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6.2 Finnish
The Unadulterated Cat has been published in Finnish as "Tosikissa ei
kirppuja kiroile" (Art House, 1990, Helsinki).
Wyrd Sisters is translated as "Noitasiskot", Mort as "Mort", and Reaper Man
as "Viikatemies" - all with the original Josh Kirby cover.