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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 ...
The curse is sometimes presented as the first in a trilogy. Comedic author Terry Pratchett stated: . The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come to the attention of those in authority" and finish with "may the gods give you everything you ask for."
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.
Ron's 'catchphrase', "Buggrit, millennium hand an' shrimp...", was the result of Pratchett feeding a random text generating program with a Chinese takeaway menu and the lyrics to They Might Be Giants's song Particle Man. [10] His catchphrase (minus 'buggrit') is also used by Mrs Tachyon, a character in the Johnny Maxwell series, also by Pratchett.
A Blink of the Screen is a 2012 collection of short fiction by Terry Pratchett. Spanning the author's entire career, the collection contains almost all of his short fiction, whether or not set in the Discworld. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Colour of Magic is a 1983 fantasy comedy novel by Terry Pratchett, and is the first book of the Discworld series. The first printing of the British edition consisted of only 506 copies. [1] Pratchett has described it as "an attempt to do for the classical fantasy universe what Blazing Saddles did for Westerns." [2]
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.
Terry Pratchett writes at the terrypratchettbooks.com forum: "it's Ang as in Anger, u as in you, a as in a thing". Daughter of the Baron and Baroness of Überwald, Angua comes from a family of werewolves and has two brothers, Wolfgang and Andrei. Her sister Elsa is deceased, killed by Wolfgang. Only Angua and Wolfgang can shape-shift at will.