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Sir Terence David John Pratchett OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983 and 2015, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman.
The Truth is a fantasy novel by the British writer Terry Pratchett, the 25th book in his Discworld series, published in 2000.. The book features the coming of movable type to Ankh-Morpork, and the founding of the Discworld's first newspaper by William de Worde, as he invents investigative journalism with the help of his reporter Sacharissa Cripslock.
A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories ; Author: Terry Pratchett and his pseudonyms Patrick Kearns and Uncle Jim: Language: English: Genre: Fantasy: Publisher: Originally published in serialized form in the Western Daily Press and Bucks Free Press newspapers between 1970 and 1984., Collected and republished as a book in October 2023 by Harper Collins.
Hour 25 was one of the longest-running science-fiction radio programs, surpassed by only Hour of the Wolf, and surpassing Shockwave Radio Theater's 28-year run. In its first years, Hour 25 functioned almost as a science-fiction "web page" for the Los Angeles area fan base before computer technology made it much simpler to keep up-to-date on news and events in the relatively small world of ...
Unseen Academicals is the 37th novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. The novel satirises football, [1] [2] and features Mustrum Ridcully setting up an Unseen University football team, with the Librarian in goal. [3] It includes new details about "below stairs" life at the university. [3]
Nation is a novel by Terry Pratchett, published in the UK on 11 September 2008 [1] and in the US on 6 October 2009. [2] It was the first non-Discworld Pratchett novel since Johnny and the Bomb (1996). Nation is a low fantasy set in an alternative history of our world in the 1860s. The book received recognition as a Michael L. Printz Honor Book ...
"A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices" is a Discworld short story by Terry Pratchett. The story describes the reaction of the wizards of the Unseen University to a proposal from the Patrician to introduce regulation and metrics of university education. [ 1 ]
The Nome Trilogy, also known as The Bromeliad Trilogy or just The Bromeliad, is a trilogy of children's books by British writer Terry Pratchett, consisting of the books Truckers, Diggers and Wings. The trilogy tells the story of the Nomes, a race of tiny people from another world who now live hidden among humans. Through the books they struggle ...