In 2008, Harper Children's published Terry's standalone non-Discworld YA novel, Nation. The first of these, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal.Ī non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback - Harper Torch, 2006 - and trade paperback - Harper Paperbacks, 2006).
There are over 40 books in the Discworld series, of which four are written for children. Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. And certain highly placed personages are using the unrest as an excuse to resurrect a monarchy-which would be bad enough even if the "king" they were grooming wasn't as empty-headed as your typical animated pottery.īorn Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. The anger of a fearful populace is already being dangerously channeled toward the city's small community of golems-the mindless, absurdly industrious creatures of baked clay, who can occasionally be found toiling in the city's factories. All Vimes has are some tracks of white clay and more of those bothersome "clue" things that only serve to muck up an investigation. An apparent lack of any motive is also quite troubling. But what bothers Watch Commander Sir Sam Vimes is that the unusual deaths of three elderly Ankh-Morporkians do not bear the clean, efficient marks of the Assassins' Guild. "This is fantasy served with a twist of Monty Python, parody that works by never taking itself too seriously." - Publishers Weekly The seventeenth installment of the critically acclaimed Discworld series by Sir Terry Pratchett It's murder in Discworld!-which ordinarily is no big deal.
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