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Discworld is a comic fantasy [1] book series written by the English author Sir Terry Pratchett, set on the Discworld, a flat planet balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle.
Year Award Category Organisation Ref. 1994 British Book Awards: Fantasy and Science Fiction Author of the Year The Bookseller [1] 2009 Skylark Award: NESFA [2] 2010 World Fantasy Awards: World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement: World Fantasy Convention [3] 2011 ALA Awards: Margaret A. Edwards Award: American Library Association [3] 2016 Nebula ...
Interesting Times is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett. It is the seventeenth book in the Discworld series and is set in the Aurient (a fictional analogue of the Orient). [1] The title refers to the English expression, "may you live in interesting times", which is typically presented as a translation from a traditional Chinese ...
Pratchett also wrote a five-book children's series featuring a trainee witch, Tiffany Aching, and taking place on Discworld, beginning with The Wee Free Men in 2003. In September 2014, a collection of children's stories, Dragons at Crumbling Castle, written by Pratchett, and illustrated by Mark Beech, was published. [190]
Thief of Time: Terry Pratchett: Unfreezing and freezing of time using a small mechanism. 2002 Bones of the Earth: Michael Swanwick: Palaeontologists studying dinosaurs are trapped in the Mesozoic period, but also travel into the very distant future. The novel was nominated for several science fiction awards. 2002 Night Watch: Terry Pratchett
The Shepherd's Crown is a comic fantasy novel, the last book written by Terry Pratchett before his death in March 2015. It is the 41st novel in the Discworld series, and the fifth based on the character Tiffany Aching .
Eric, stylized as Faust Eric, is the ninth Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett.It was originally published in 1990 [1] as a "Discworld story", in a larger format than the other novels and illustrated by Josh Kirby.
Throughout the book Angua debates returning to Überwald to live among other werewolves. In the end, she stays in Ankh-Morpork. Angua also befriends Gaspode, a small dog with matted fur who gains and loses human speech in Moving Pictures, then by the time Men at Arms begins regains it by sleeping near Unseen University's High-Energy Magic ...