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- Terry Pratchett’s Truckers is alive! Again! Maybe! 11:13pm Apr 1
- Terry Pratchett commemorative stamps available on eBay 8:42pm Mar 27
- Good Omens is Audible.co.uk’s Audiobook Download Of The Year 11:15pm Mar 26
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Two fans and artists of Terry Pratchett's writings have created a set of commemorative stamps celebrating Pratchett's life. The stampsheets are available now on eBay (or by emailing sirterry@stampsmyth.com)...
Nearly twenty years after it was first published, which book is still a phenomenon? Good Omens, of course. The Neil Gaiman-Terry Pratchett collaboration, narrated by Stephen Briggs, was voted the 2008 winner of the annual Audible.co.uk Audiobook Download Of The Year awards...
Announced at the same time as Nation's Printz honor was the Odyssey Honor Award For Excellence In Audiobook Production for the audio version of Nation, read by Stephen Briggs for HarperChildren's Audio. Thanks to Colin Smythe for the heads-up!
The Wavertree Garden Suburb Institute (Liverpool) presents Stephen Briggs' stage adaptation of Wyrd Sisters beginning this Saturday, January 24...
The third episode of this site’s companion podcast is now live! Listen as Shoshana tells you all about the latest news relevant to fans everywhere, reads a funny quote from Going Postal, and talks about a former classmate of Rincewind'
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Warning: Do not buy Discworld novels from Hill House, Publishers until further notice
Hill House’s proposed facsimile editions of the first twelve Discworld novels, advertised since at least 2005, will probably not be published, according to Terry Pratchett’s agent Colin Smythe.
The new editions were supposed to reproduce the early Discworld novels “in exact facsimile editions,” with the use of identical binding, paper, type, and jacket art as the originals. The books were due to be published about every four months and since 2005 only The Colour Of Magic and The Light Fantastic have been published.
Terry Pratchett’s literary agent Colin Smythe responded to questions with “as far as I’m aware, the owner of Hill House, Publishers Peter Schneider has been ill and as it’s a one man operation I don’t believe that he’s going to publish any more of the facsimiles."
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Happy Birthday, Terry Pratchett
Many birthday wishes to Terry Pratchett, who turned sixty yesterday, April 28.
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BBC birthday celebrations for Terry Pratchett
BBC 7 celebrates Terry Pratchett’s sixtieth birthday (this Monday) with a mini series of Terry Pratchett interviews, radio adaptations of the Discworld novels, and more. A summary of what’s still available:
* Book Club: Terry Pratchett talks to James Naughtie about Mort and the Discworld series. Airs May 2 at 6:30 pm. and 12:30 a.m.
* Truckers: The first novel in Terry Pratchett’s trilogy about nomes, read by Philip Pickard. Airs May 5 to May 8 from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. on Big Toe Books.
All programs, including the dramatization of Small Gods that aired yesterday, should be available on BBC’s Listen Again feature for about a week after airing.
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From Terry Pratchett: Alzheimer’s, documentary, book, and film news.
Over at the Discworld illustrator’s website, Terry Pratchett has kindly updated his fans with information about everything: the BBC documentary ("broadcast next year"), dealing with Alzheimer’s (”I am now firmly ensconced with a specialist”), Nation (”line-edited”), and the coming TV adaptation of Going Postal. Part of the letter follows:
My office is now effectively at a standstill. In fact, my office is probably moving slightly backwards. It has not helped that a five story rack of filed mail collapsed under the weight recently, thus shuffling several thousand documents into new and interesting combinations. Right now it is a good day if we can answer just those emails that turn up on that day. Most days are nothing like good days.
The full text of the letter and links can be found at http://www.fromrimtohub.com/?p=440
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Terry Pratchett/Alzheimer’s documentary by IWC Media and the BBC
Scotland’s largest independent television production company, IWC Media, has teamed up with Terry Pratchett and the BBC to make a new documentary series about Terry Pratchett and his diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer’s. Craig Hunter will be the producer for the documentary, and Charlie Russell will direct. Terry Pratchett has said on his illustrator’s website that he “must have had more than a dozen approaches from documentary companies alone, and I think we shall now just stop sending out the “You are too late, guys” emails (You may see us around and about being followed by Craig and Charlie, who are making a documentary about me for the BBC which will be broadcast next year.) I never intended that I would be some kind of AD spokesman, but the world seems to be deciding otherwise.”
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The Illustrated Wee Free Men, coming this October
An illustrated version of the first novel in the Tiffany Aching children’s series, Wee Free Men, is now available for pre-order on Amazon.co.uk. (There is also a page for this illustrated version of the novel on the American version of the site, although pre-ordering is not yet available there.) This new edition is to be titled The Illustrated Wee Free Men, and according to Amazon.co.uk, will number 256 pages.
The U.K. publishing date is set for October 6, 2008, while the American publishing date is set for October 28.
The cover art and the synopsis can be found at http://www.fromrimtohub.com/?p=437
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Nation: cover art, synopsis, September release date?
13 April 2008 (14:07)
Terry Pratchett’s newest novel, Nation, is now available for pre-order on Amazon.co.uk. (There is also a Nation page on the American version of the site, although pre-ordering is not yet available there.) According to Amazon.co.uk, the hardcover is 300 pages long, and the publishing date is approximately September 11, 2008. (The American Amazon states a publishing date of September 9.) Interestingly, the (probably non-Discworld) book is categorized as a children’s book. The full synopsis can be found at http://www.fromrimtohub.com/?p=431.
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TerryPratchett.co.uk on-line
12 April 2008 (13:33)
U.K. Discworld publishers Transworld have put up an official Terry Pratchett site at TerryPratchett.co.uk. The full site is still coming soon, but the site already has a “featured books” section, a competition (rules here and registration here), and promises “a great destination site for all fans.” Future updates are expected to include a forum, exclusive news, downloads, and games.
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Terry Pratchett on J. K. Rowling
2 April 2008 (20:42)
Terry Pratchett, as fantasy writer extraordinaire before J. K. Rowling came along and Stole His Thunder, Causing Him To Become Intensely Jealous And Bitter (according to the newspapers, anyway), has been asked once more about his attitude towards J. K. Rowling. Of course, most journalists can’t resist over-dramatizing a story (thus the heading on this article: “Broomsticks at dawn as Pratchett curses JK.” I mean, really.)
The article also mentions Terry Pratchett’s take on the Rowling’s recent lawsuit against RDR Books. Terry Pratchett said, "In fantasy writing, accusations of copying are very difficult to make. You know who invented wizards? Who invented Goblins? If we were going to start paying royalties for nicking one another’s ideas, we’d have all given our life savings to the Tolkien family a long time ago."
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/col
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Terry Pratchett audio interview on Arthur C. Clarke
26 March 2008 (23:46)
Arthur C. Clarke died at age 90 recently, and accordingly, BBC interviewed Terry Pratchett on Clarke’s contribution to the science fiction/fantasy genre. The audio of the interview can be found on the BBC website. In the two-and-a-half minute clip, Terry Pratchett speaks about the effect of Clarke’s Space Odyssey, his astonishingly accurate predictions, and how he “put some science into science fiction.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_
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Pat Cadigan started an online campaign (dubbed “Match it for Pratchett” by participants) on his blog to get half a million Discworld fans to each donate a pound (that’s about two dollars in U.S. currency) to Alzheimer’s research, thus matching the half-million pounds/a million dollars donation Terry Pratchett made yesterday to the Alzheimer’s Research Trust in the U.K. Cadigan says on his blog, “So whaddaya say, guys? … You can spare that much. Go here and make your donation. Tell them it’s in honour of Terry Pratchett.”
Edit: The Match It For Pratchett site, www.matchitforpratchett.org, has been set up for more information. A Facebook page has also been set up by the originator of the initiative, which includes a letter from the Alzheimer’s Research Trust.
FromRimToHub.com A charity auction on eBay is in process to support the Alzheimer’s Research Trust. Terry Pratchett and the Colour of Magic crew worked together to provide this “unique opportunity” to own the only replica of the Luggage used in producing The Colour of Magic adaptation. Also included is the complete set of <em>Discworld</em> books signed by Pratchett as well as a 25th anniversary edition of <em>The Colour of Magic</em> signed by Sean Astin and David Jason. Seventeen bidders have bid the price up to £2,050.00 after three days. The auction ends on March 19.
The adaptation, based on the first two books in the Discworld series, will air in the U.K. for the first time in two parts this Easter weekend. The adaptation stars David Jason, Sean Astin, and Tim Curry, and features cameos by Jeremy Irons and author Terry Pratchett.
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