Path: bloom-beacon.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!wupost!waikato!comp.vuw.ac.nz!kauri.vuw.ac.nz!gnat From: gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington) Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett,news.answers,alt.answers Subject: Terry Pratchett Bibliography Supersedes: Followup-To: alt.fan.pratchett Date: 31 Dec 1993 11:00:16 GMT Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand. Lines: 1351 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Distribution: world Message-ID: Reply-To: pratchett-faq@vuw.ac.nz NNTP-Posting-Host: kauri.vuw.ac.nz Originator: gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz Xref: bloom-beacon.mit.edu alt.fan.pratchett:11502 news.answers:13481 alt.answers:1520 Archive-name: pratchett/bibliography Maintained-by: pratchett-faq@vuw.ac.nz ---------------------------------------- Changes made $Date: 93/08/30 14:12:12 $: * Spanish info addded * Italian translation * Finnish info ---------------------------------------- This is the bibliography for the newsgroup alt.fan.pratchett. It lists the books which Terry Pratchett has published, their availability and gives the 'blurbs' for each. This FAQ is currently posted to news.answers, alt.answers and alt.fan.pratchett. All posts to news.answers are archived, and it is possible to retrieve the last posted copy via anonymous FTP from rtfm.mit.edu as /pub/usenet/alt.fan.pratchett/pratchett/bibliography. Those without FTP access should send e-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with "send usenet/news.answers/finding-sources" in the body to find out how to do FTP by e-mail. This FAQ was mostly written by Nathan Torkington, with numerous contributions by readers of alt.fan.pratchett. The credits for compiling the collective FAQs of alt.fan.pratchett are appended to the body of the main FAQ. Comments and indications of doubt are enclosed in []s in the text. Each section begins with forty dashes ("-") on a line of their own, then the section number. This should make searching for a specific section easy. Contributions, comments and changes should be directed to pratchett-faq@vuw.ac.nz ---------------------------------------- List of Answers 1 The Discworld Series 1.1 The Colour of Magic 1.2 The Light Fantastic 1.3 Equal Rites 1.4 Mort 1.5 Sourcrey 1.6 Wyrd Sisters 1.7 Pyramids 1.8 Guards! Guards! 1.9 Eric 1.10 Moving Pictures 1.11 Reaper Man 1.12 Witches Abroad 1.13 Small Gods 1.14 Lords and Ladies 2 Pre-Discworld 2.1 The Carpet People 2.2 Strata 2.3 The Dark Side of the Sun 3 The Nomes Series 3.1 Truckers 3.2 Diggers 3.3 Wings 4 Young Adult Books 4.1 Only You Can Save The World 4.2 Johnny and the Dead 5 Collaborations 5.1 Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman) 5.2 The Unadulterated Cat (with Gray Joliffe) 6 Translations 6.1 German 6.2 Swedish 6.3 French 6.4 American 6.5 Dutch 6.6 Spanish 6.7 Italian 6.8 Finnish 7 Miscellany ---------------------------------------- 1. The Discworld Series Without a doubt this is the most popular series of books that Terry Pratchett has written. Without exception, the references here are to UK and Commonwealth editions. Note that Corgi is the publisher for the paperback editions only. ---------------------------------------- 1.1 The Colour of Magic %A Terry Pratchett %T The Colour of Magic %I Corgi %D ISBN 0 552 12475 3 Blurb: Jerome K. Jerome meets _Lord of the Rings_ (with a touch of _Peter Pan_) ... On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet ... The wackiest and most original fantasy since _Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy_. ---------------------------------------- 1.2 The Light Fantastic %A Terry Pratchett %T The Light Fantastic %I Corgi %D ISBN 0 552 12848 1 Blurb: As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld has only one possible saviour. Unfortunately, this happens to be the singularly inept and cowardly wizard called Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world .... The funniest and most unorthodox fantasy in this or any other galaxy. ---------------------------------------- 1.3 Equal Rites %A Terry Pratchett %T Equal Rites %I Corgi %D ISBN 0 552 13105 9 %I Victor Gollancz ISBN 0 575 03950 7 (Hardback) Blurb: The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did, before Death laid a bony hand on his shoulder, was to pass on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately for his colleagues in the chauvinistic (not to say mysogynistic) world of magic, he failed to check on the new-born baby's sex ... A third hilarious adventure by the author of _The Colour of Magic_ and _The Light Fantastic_. ---------------------------------------- 1.4 Mort %A Terry Pratchett %T Mort %I Corgi %D ISBN 0 552 13106 7 %I Victor Gollancz ISBN 0 575 04171 4 (Hardback) Blurb: Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job. After being assured that being dead was not compulsory, Mort accepted. However, he soon found that romantic longings did not mix easily with the responsibilities of being Death's apprentice .... ---------------------------------------- 1.5 Sourcery %A Terry Pratchett %T Sourcery %I Corgi %D ISBN 0 552 13107 5 %I Victor Gollancz ISBN 0 575 04217 6 (Hardback) Blurb: There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we'd better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son ... a wizard squared ... a source of magic ... a Sourcerer. ---------------------------------------- 1.6 Wyrd Sisters %A Terry Pratchett %T Wyrd Sisters %I Corgi %D 1989 ISBN 0 552 13460 0 %I Victor Gollancz ISBN 0 575 04363 6 (Hardback) Blurb: Witches are not by their nature gregarious, and they certainly don't have leaders. Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have. But even *she* found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more difficult than certain playwrights would have you believe ... ---------------------------------------- 1.7 Pyramids %A Terry Pratchett %T Pyramids %I Corgi %D 1990 ISBN 0 552 13461 9 Blurb: Being trained by the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not fit Teppic for the task assigned to him by fate. He inherited the throne of the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi rather earlier than he expected (his father wasn't too happy about it either), but that was only the beginning of his problems ... ---------------------------------------- 1.8 Guards! Guards! %A Terry Pratchett %T Guards! Guards! %I Corgi %D 1990 ISBN 0 552 13462 7 Blurb: This is where the dragons went. They lie ... not dead, not asleep, but ... dormant. And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly. And presumably, somewhere, there's a key ... Guards! Guards! is the eighth Discworld novel - and after this, dragons will never be the same again! ---------------------------------------- 1.9 Eric %A Terry Pratchett %T Eric %I Corgi %D ISBN 0 575 04836 0 (Corgi) %I VGSF (Victor Gollancz Ltd in association with Corgi) ISBN 0 575 05191 4 (Non Illustrated) ISBN 0-575-04636-8 (Hardback Illustrated) Blurb: Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. Pity he's not very good at it. All he wants is three wishes granted. Nothing fancy - to be immortal, rule the world, have the most beautiful woman in the world fall madly in love with him, the usual stuff. But instead of a tractable demon, he calls up Rincewind, probably the most incompetent wizard in the universe, and the extremely *intractable* and hostile form of travel accessory known as the Luggage. With them on his side, Eric's in for a ride through space and time that is bound to make him wish (quite fervently) again - this time that he'd never been born. ---------------------------------------- 1.10 Moving Pictures %A Terry Pratchett %T Moving Pictures %I Corgi %D ISBN 0 552 13463 5 %I Victor Gollancz ISBN 0 575 04763 1 (Hardback) Blurb: The alchemists of the Discworld have discovered the magic of the silver screen. But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood hill? It's up to Victor Tugelbend ("Can't sing. Can't dance. Can handle a sword a little") and Theda Withel ("I come from a little town you've probably never heard of") to find out ... Moving Pictures, the ninth Discworld novel, is a gloriously funny saga set against the background of a world gone mad! ---------------------------------------- 1.11 Reaper Man %A Terry Pratchett %T Reaper Man %I Corgi %D ISBN 0 552 13464 3 (Paperback) %I Victor Gollancz ISBN 0 575 04979 0 (Hardback) Blurb: Death is missing - presumed ... er ... gone. Which leads to the kind of chaos to *always* expect when an important public service is withdrawn. Ghosts and poltergeists fill up the Discworld. Dead Rights activist Reg Shoe - "You Don't Have to Take This Lying Down" - suddenly has more work than he had ever dreamed of. And newly deceased wizard Windle Poons wakes up in his coffin to find that he has come back as a corpse. But it's up to Windle and the members of Ankh-Morpork's rather unfrightening group of undead (*) to save the world for the living. Meanwhile, on a little farm far, far away, a tall, dark stranger is turning out to be really good with a scythe. There's a harvest to be got in. And a different battle to be fought. (*) Arthur Winkings, for example, became a vampire after being bitten by a lawyer. Schleppel the bogeyman would be better at his job if he wasn't agoraphobic and frightened of coming out of the closet. And Mr Ixolite is a banshee with a speech impediment, so instead of standing on the roof and screaming when there's a death in the house he writes "OooEeeOooEeeOoo" on a piece of paper and pushes it under the door. ---------------------------------------- 1.12 Witches Abroad %A Terry Pratchett %T Witches Abroad %I Victor Gollancz %D ISBN 0 575 04980 4 (Hardback) %I Corgi %D ISBN 0 552 13465 1 (Paperback) Blurb: It seemed an easy job ... After all, how difficult could it be to make sure that a servant girl *doesn't* marry a prince? But for the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick, travelling to the distant city of Genua, things are never that simple ... For one thing, all they've got is Mrs Gogol's voodoo, a one-eyed cat and a second-hand magic wand that can only do pumpkins. And they're up against the malignant power of the Godmother herself, who has made Destiny an offer it can't refuse. And finally there's the sheer power of the Story. Servant girls *have* to marry the Prince. That's what life is all about. You can't fight a Happy Ending. At least - up until now ... ---------------------------------------- 1.13 Small Gods %A Terry Pratchett %T Small Gods %I Victor Gollancz %D ISBN 0 575 05222 8 (Hardback) %I Corgi ISBN 0-552-13890-8 (Paperback) Blurb: Brutha is the Chosen One. His god has spoken to him, admittedly while currently in the shape of a tortoise. Brutha is a simple lad. He can't read. He can't write. He's pretty good at growing melons. And his wants are few. He wants to overthrow a huge and corrupt church. He wants to prevent a horrible holy war. He wants to stop the persecution of a philosopher who has dared to suggest that, contrary to the Church's dogma, the Discworld really *does* go through space on the back of an enormous turtle (*). He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. He wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please. But most of all, what he really wants, more than anything else, is for his god to Choose Someone Else ... (* which is true, but when has *that* ever mattered?) ---------------------------------------- 1.14 Lords and Ladies %A Terry Pratchett %T Lords and Ladies %I Victor Gollancz %D 1992 ISBN 0 575 05223 6 (Hardcover) Blurb: It's a hot Midsummer Night. The crop circles are turning up everywhere -- even on the mustard-and-cress of Pewsey Ogg, aged four. And Magrat Garlick, witch, is going to be married in the morning... Everything ought to be going like a dream. But the Lancre All-Comers Morris Team have got drunk on a fairy mound and the elves have come back, bringing all those things *traditionally* associated with the magical, glittering realm of Faerie: cruelty, kidnapping, malice and evil, evil murder.[*] Granny Weatherwax and her tiny argumentative coven have *really* got their work cut out this time... With full supporting cast of dwarfs, wizards, trolls, Morris Dancers and one orang-utan. And lots of hey-nonny-nonny and blood all over the place. [*] But with tons of *style*. ---------------------------------------- 2 Pre-Discworld These books are Terry's earlier efforts, and came before the success of "The Colour of Magic". Technically speaking "The Unadulterated Cat" should appear here as well, but it isn't really fantasy - see the "Collaborations" section. ---------------------------------------- 2.1 The Carpet People %A Terry Pratchett %T The Carpet People %C %I %D ISBN 0 552 13325 6 (1st Edition [?]) 0 385 40304 6 (New HB edition) Blurb: "In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet..." That's the old story everyone knows and loves (even if they don't really *believe* it). For now the Carpet is home for many different tribes and peoples -- from the empire-building Dumii, to the nomadic Munrungs, the proud Deftmenes, and the terrible creatures from the Unswept Regions. And now there's a new story in the making. The story of the time when Fray begins to move, sweeping a trail of destruction across the Carpet. The story of the power-hungry mouls, saddling up their snargs and riding to the attack. The story of Glurk and Snibril, Munrung brothers, who set out on an adventure to end all adventures when their village is flattened. The story that will come to a terrible end -- if someone doesn't do something about it. If *everyone* doesn't do something about it... ---------------------------------------- 2.2 Strata %A Terry Pratchett %T Strata %C %I Corgi %D ISBN 0 552 13325 6 (Paperback) Blurb: The excavation showed that the fossilized plesiosaur had been holding a placard which read, "End Nuclear Testing Now". That was nothing unusual. But then came a discovery of something which *did* intrigue Kin Arad. A flat earth was something new ... ---------------------------------------- 2.3 The Dark Side of the Sun %A Terry Pratchett %T The Dark Side of the Sun %C %I Corgi %D ISBN 0 552 13326 4 Blurb: Dom Salabos had a lot of advantages. As heir to a huge fortune, he had an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuity), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as a godfather, a security chief who even ran checks on himself, and on Dom's home world even death was not always fatal. Why then, in an age when prediction was a science, was his future in doubt? ---------------------------------------- 3 The Nomes Series Ostensibly for children, these books form a series that has proved popular for both adults and children. You may find these mistakenly filed under the SF section of your bookstore. Diggers has been made into a cartoon series by Cosgrove-Hall (see the FAQ for more information). ---------------------------------------- 3.1 Truckers %A Terry Pratchett %T Truckers %C %I Corgi %D ISBN 0 552 52595 2 Blurb: To the thousands of tiny nomes who live under the floorboards of a large department store, there is no Outside. Things like Day and Night, Sun and Rain are just daft old legends. Then a devastating piece of news shatters their existence: the Store - their whole world - is to be demolished. And it's up to Masklin, one of the last nomes to come into the Store, to mastermind an unbelievable escape plan that will take all the nomes into the dangers of the great Outside ... ---------------------------------------- 3.2 Diggers %A Terry Pratchett %T Diggers %C %I Corgi %D ISBN 0 552 52586 3 Blurb: A Bright New Dawn is just around the corner for thousands of tiny nomes when they move into the ruined buildings of an abandoned quarry. Or is it? Soon strange things start to happen. Like the tops of puddles growing hard and cold, and the water coming down from the sky in frozen bits. Then humans appear and they really mess everything up. The quarry is to be re-opened and the nomes must fight to defend their new home. But how long will they be able to keep the humans at bay - even with the help of the monster Jekub? ---------------------------------------- 3.3 Wings %A Terry Pratchett %T Wings %C %I Corgi %D ISBN 0 552 52649 5 Blurb: Somewhere in a place so far up there is no down, a ship is waiting to take the nomes home - back to wherever they came from. And one nome, Masklin, knows that they've got to try and contact this ship. It means going to Florida (wherever that is), then getting to the launch of a communications satellite (whatever that is). A ridiculous plan. Impossible. But Masklin doesn't know this so he tries to do it anyway. And the first step is to try and hitch a ride on a new kind of truck, a truck with wings - Concorde ... ---------------------------------------- 4 Young Adult Books Aimed at the round-about-teenage market, "Young Adult books have fewer teddy bears and more inner city grit" (so the man himself says). ---------------------------------------- 4.1 Only You Can Save Mankind %A Terry Pratchett %T Only You Can Save Mankind %C %I Doubleday %D 1992 ISBN 0 385 40308 9 Blurb: The mighty alien fleet from the very latest computer game thunders across the computer screen... Hands poised on the joystick, Johnny prepares to blow them into the usual million pieces... And they send him a message: WE SURRENDER. They're not supposed to do that! Where does it say in the manual that they're supposed to do that? But they've done it. This time they don't want to die. They just want to go home. Johnny is the only human who knows. So he has to learn how to wage all-out Peace, and they don't make joysticks with a 'Don't Fire' button... It's hard, trying to Save Mankind from the Galactic Hordes. It's even harder trying to save the Galactic Hordes from Mankind. But it's only a game, isn't it. ISN'T IT? ---------------------------------------- 4.2 Johnny and the Dead %A Terry Pratchett %T Johnny and the Dead %C %I Doubleday %D 1993 ISBN 0 385 403011 `Call any time you like,' said the Alderman. `I'm always in. That's something you learn to be good at, when you're dead ...' Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). But twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And the dead are nothing like he expected. They don't lurch about. They don't push through walls. They can't even dance like they do in videos. They're just people -- post-senior citizens -- and they're always in. At least, up until now. Now the council want to move them out so the cemetery can be sold as a building site. But the dead have learned a thing or two from Johnny. They're not going to take it lying down ... especially since it's Halloween tomorrow. Besides, they're beginnign to find that life is a lot more fun than it was when they were ... well ... alive. Especially if they break a few rules ... An irreverent and highly-entertaining new fantasy tale featuring Johnny Maxwell, first met in Terry Pratchett's ``Only You Can Save Mankind''. ---------------------------------------- 5 Collaborations To date, Terry has only written two books with other authors - "Good Omens" with Neil Gaiman, and "The Unadulterated Cat" with cartoonish Gray Joliffe. US readers should consider the US edition (see the Translations section) where some of the funnier jokes in Good Omens are explained for the benefit of the trans-Atlantic audience. A new edition of The Unadulterated Cat is supposed to have been released. The ISBN number listed below isn't for this new edition. ---------------------------------------- 5.1 Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman) %A Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman %T Good Omens %C %I Corgi %D ISBN 0 552 13703 0 Blurb: Crowley, Hell's most approachable demon, and an old friend Aziraphale, genuine angel and London book shop owner, have a problem. Armageddon - which will happen on a Saturday Night. Next Saturday, in fact. So they've got no alternative but to stopt he Four Motorcyclists of the Apocalypse, defeat the Witchfinder Army and find and kill the Antichrist - an eleven-year-old boy who loves his dog ... ---------------------------------------- 5.2 The Unadulterated Cat (with Gray Joliffe) %A Terry Pratchett and Gray Joliffe %T The Unadulterated Cat %C %I Victor Gollancz Ltd. %D ISBN 0 575 04628 7 ISBN 0 575 05369 0 (Paperback) Blurb: Can you recognise a real, unadulterated cat when you see one? Or have you too grown used to the boring, mass-produced cats the advertising industry adores? Real cats never eat from bowls (at least not the ones marked CAT). Real cats do eat quiche. And giblets. And butter. And anything else left on the table. They can hear a fridge door opening two rooms away. Real cats don't need names. But they often get called them. "Yaargeroffoutofityarbastard" does nicely. ---------------------------------------- 6 Translations Terry Pratchett's works have been translated into several languages. The ISBN numbers for those editions are listed here. US readers should consult the FAQ to learn about the Great Eric Saga, (subtitled: "Why The US Lose on Eric"). Particular thanks to Ralf E. Stranzenbach and Bernd Reh for the most excellent work in the German translation section. ---------------------------------------- 6.1 German %A Terry Pratchett %T Die Farben der Magie %I Goldmann Fantasy %D 1985 ISBN 3-442-23869-2 %I Wilhelm Heyne Verlag %D 1992 ISBN 3-453-05860-7 Blurb: Der naive Weltenbummler Zweiblum und Rincewind, der unfaehige Unterzauberer, trafen sich auf der Scheibenwelt. Sie wurde von der riesigen Schildkroete A'Tuini und vier Elephanten auf ewig durch das All gezogen. Als Zweiblum in Ankh-Morpock, der Stadt der Zauberer, ankam, war er in Begleitung seiner Schatztruhe, die ihm wie ein Haushund auf allen Wegen nachfolgte. Weder ist sie von grosser Hilfe auf der abenteuerlichen Reise zum interstellaren Golf, noch Unterzauberer Rincewind, dessen Zaubersprueche meist nur heisse Luft bewegen. Aber alles sollte noch viel schlimmer kommen... %A Terry Pratchett %T Das Licht der Phantasie %I Wilhelm Heyne Verlag %D 1989 ISBN 3-453-03450-3 Blurb: Dies ist die Geschichte der Scheibenwelt, die von einer Schildkroete getragen wird und die sich auf Kollisionskurs befindet: einem Roten Stern entgegen. Die Sprueche des Zauberbuchs "Octavo" koennen die Katastrophe verhindern; doch ausgerechnet der tumbe Magier Rincewind hat den wichtigsten Spruch im Kopf. Waehrend die Kollegen ihn aufzuspueren versuchen, macht sich Rincewind in Begleitung des Touristen Zweiblum und dessen laufendem Koffer aus dem Staub. Da stiehlt ein verrueckt gewordener Magier das Buch "Octavo" und ist drauf und dran, die Scheibenwelt dem Untergang preiszugeben, Rincewind muss sich entscheiden... %A Terry Pratchett %T Das Erbe des Zauberers %I Wilhelm Heyne Verlag %D 1989 ISBN 3-453-03451-1 Blurb: Ein alter Magier fuehlt das Ende nahen und uebergibt seinen machtvollen Zauberstab dem ungeborenen achten Sohn eines achten Sohnes. Doch als das Kind das Licht der Welt erblickt, stellt man erschrocken fest, dass es ein Maedchen ist - und Maedchen duerfen die Zauberkunst nicht ausueben. Als die magischen Talente der kleinen Eskarina bedrohliche Ausmasse annehmen, reist die resolute Dorfhexe mit ihr zur Unsichtbaren Universitaet, um der Kleinen mit allen Mitteln einen Studienplatz zu verschaffen und sie zur ersten staatlich geprueften Zauberin der Scheibenwelt zu machen. Als sie sich mit dem Erzmagier und seinem ebenso genialen wie pickligen Zauberlehrling zusammentut, ahnt keiner, dass die Kraefte der jungen Leute eine hochbrisante Mischung ergeben, die die Scheibenwelt zum Einsturz bringen koennte. %A Terry Pratchett %T Gevatter Tod %I Wilhelm Heyne Verlag %D 1990 ISBN 3-453-04290-5 Blurb: Mort findet keine Lehrstelle, bis ihn Gevatter Tod als Azubi in seine Dienste nimmt. Fortan begleitet Mort die Seelen Verstorbener ins Jenseits. Als Prinzessin Keli hinterruecks gemeuchelt werden soll, faellt er dem Attentaeter in den Arm und toetet ihn vorschriftswidrig. Das Universum reagiert hoechst ungnaedig auf die Geschichtsverfaelschung: Es ignoriert Kelis Existenz und quetscht sie an den Rand der Realitaet. Im verzweifelten Kampf um das Leben der Angebeteten wird Mort seinem Meister immer aehnlicher, bis er eines Tages sogar IN GROSSBUCHSTABEN REDET... %A Terry Pratchett %T Der Zauberhut %I Wilhelm Heyne Verlag %D 1990 ISBN 3-453-04300-6 Blurb: Wann immer der achte Sohn eines achten Sohnes eines achten Sohnes zur Welt kommt: Er ist zum Magier geboren, auch wenn er Magie nicht ausstehen kann und eine irrwitzige galaktische Reise antreten muss - auf der Suche nach einem alten Hut. %A Terry Pratchett %T MacBest %I Wilhelm Heyne Verlag %D 1992 ISBN 3-453-05408-3 Blurb: Hexen sind nicht von Natur aus gesellig, und mit Sicherheit haben sie keine Anfuehrer. Oma Wetterwachs war die am meisten geachtete Anfuehrerin, die sie nicht hatten. Aber sogar sie merkte, dass das Herumpfuschen in koeniglicher Politik sehr viel schwerer war, als manche Schriftsteller versuchen, einem glaubhaft zu machen... %A Terry Pratchett %T Pyramiden %I Wilhelm Heyne Verlag %D 1991 ISBN 3-453-04505-X Blurb: Von der Assassinengilde in Ankh-Morpork ausgebildet zu werden passte gar nicht zu dem, was das Schicksal fauer Teppic vorgesehen hatte. Er wurde frueher Thron-erbe des Wuestenkoenigreichs Djelibeby als er erwartete (was auch seinen Vater nicht sehr freute), aber das war nur der Anfang seiner Probleme... %A Terry Pratchett %T Wachen! Wachen! %I Wilhelm Heyne Verlag %D 1991 ISBN 3-453-05029-0 Blurb: Hierher verschwanden die Drachen. Sie liegen ... nicht tot, nicht schlafend, aber ... schlummernd. Zwar befinden sie sich nicht im normalen Raum, aber trotzdem liegen sie dicht beieinander. Man mag versucht sein, in diesem Zusammenhang an eine Sardinen- buechse zu denken - vorausgesetzt, man haelt Sardinen fuer gross und schuppig. Vielleicht gibt es eine Lasche, mit der man die Buechse oeffnen kann... %A Terry Pratchett %T Eric %I Wilhelm Heyne Verlag %D November 1992 ISBN 3-453-06234-5 (Illustrated edition) Blurb: Kennen Sie Faust? Vergessen Sie ihn, denn jetzt gibt es ERIC (13), den juengsten Daemonologen der Scheibenwelt. Er beschwoert nicht nur Tod und Teufel, sondern auch RINCEWIND, den unfaehigsten Zauberer aller Zeiten, und seine TRUHE, das bissigste Gepaeckstueck der Galaxis. Als Eric den Zauberer vom Bann erloest, stehen ihm drei handels-uebliche Wuensche frei: ewiges Leben, Macht und die schoenste Frau der Weltgeschichte. Doch die Erfuellung des totalen Gluecks wird zum Hoellentrip, buchstaeblich... Those after Eric are not released in Germany yet. %A Terry Pratchett %T Strata oder die Flachwelt %I Wilhelm Heyne Verlag %D 1983 (out of print) %A Terry Pratchett %T Strata %I Wilhelm Heyne Verlag %D 1992 ISBN 3-453-05834-8 Blurb: Die Ausgrabung zeigte, dass der versteinerte Plesiosaurier ein Plakat mit der Aufschrift "Stoppt Atomtests Jetzt" gehalten hatte. Das war nichts besonderes. Aber dann kam eine Entdeckung, die Kin Arad stutzig machte. Eine flache Erde war 'mal etwas Neues.. %A Terry Pratchett %T Die dunkle Seite der Sonne %I Wilhelm Heyne Verlag %D January 1989 ISBN 3-453-03902-5 Blurb: Als Erbe eines gigantischen Vermoegens hat Dom Salabos das feine Leben gepachtet, haelt sich einen Roboterdiener a la Robinsons Freitag, einen eigenen Platenet und einen Sicherheitsbeauftragten, der Anschlaege auf sich selbst zu verueben pflegt. Selbst der Tod ist auf Doms Heimatwelt nur eine Lapalie. Und zu allem Ueberflusz ermittelt man mit Hilfe der Wahrscheinlichkeitsmathematik sowieso schon vorher, was hinterher wann und wie passiert - die Prophezeiung als strenge Wissenschaft sozusagen. Und trotz aller dieser Bequemlichkeiten macht sich Dom Salabos auf und reist durch Paralleluniversen und Multi-realitaeten, um eine legendaere Superrasse aufzustoebern. Als er endlich die gesuchte Spezies findet, holt die Illusion der Realitaet die Wissenschaft der Prophezeiung ein. Nicht unbedingt zum Nachteil der Beteiligten. %A Terry Pratchett %T Wuehler %I Wilhelm Heyne Verlag %D January 1993 ISBN 3-453-06264-7 Blurb: Ein schoener neuer Tag begann fuer die tausende kleiner Nomen, die sich in den baufaelligen Barracken eines verlassenen Steinbruchs eingerichtet hatten. Oder?? Bald schon geschehen jedoch seltsame Dimge: Die Klimaanlage des Draussen spielt verrueckt, Pfuetzen bekommen einen komischen, kalten, harten Ueberzug und das Wasser der unsichtbaren Sprinkleranlage faellt als kleine Wuerfel herunter. Menschen erscheinen und bringen alles durcheinander. Wie lange noch koennen sie sich gegen diese wehren - selbst mit der Hilfe des Monsters Jekub?? %A Terry Pratchett %T Trucker %I Wilhelm Heyne Verlag %D December 1992 ISBN 3-453-06263-9 Blurb: Fuer die Tausenden von winzigen Nomen, die unter dem Fussboden eines grossen Kaufhauses leben gibt es kein Draussen. Dinge wie Tag und Nacht, Sonne und Regen sind nur alte vergangene Legenden. Dann bringt eine verheerende Nachricht ihre Existenz zum Einsturz: das Kaufhaus - ihre ganze Welt - soll abgerissen werden. Und es bleibt Masklin, einem der letzten Nomen, die ins Kaufhaus kamen, Aueberlassen, sich einen unglaublichen Fluchtplan auszudenken, der alle Nomen in die Gefahren des grossen Draussen bringt ... %A Terry Pratchett %T Fluegel %I Wilhelm Heyne Verlag %D January 1993 ISBN 3-453-06265-5 Blurb: Irgendwo, an einem Platz so weit oben, dass es kein unten gibt, wartet ein Schiff darauf, die Nomen nach Hause zu bringen - zurueck woher auch immer sie kamen. Und ein Nom, Masklin, weiss, dass sie versuchen muessen, mit diesem Schiff Verbindung aufzunehmen. Das beudeutet, nach Florida zu gehen (wo immer das ist) und dort den Start eines Kommunikationssatelliten (was immer das ist) zu erreichen. Ein laecherlicher Plan. Unmoeglich. Aber Masklin weiss das nicht, also versucht er es eben. Und der erste Schritt ist zu versuchen, per Anhalter mit einer neuen Art Lastwagen zu fahren, einem Lastwagen mit Fluegeln - Concorde ... %A Terry Pratchett %T Ein gutes Omen %I 2001/Rogner & Bernhard %D 1991 ISBN 3-8077-0247-4 Blurb: Wenn Sie in die Zukunft sehen moechten, dann stellen Sie sich einen Jungen vor, der mit seinen Freunden und einem Hund unterwegs ist. Denken Sie an einen Sommer, der niemals endet. Wenn Sie in die Zukunft sehen moechten, so denken Sie an einen Schuh mit losen Schnuersenkeln. Einen Turnschuh, der nach kleinen Steinen tritt. Denken Sie an einen Stock: Man kann damit nach interessanten Dingen stochern oder ihn fortwerfen, vielleicht holt ihn der Hund zurueck, vielleicht auch nicht. Denken Sie an ein leises, disharmonisches Pfeifen, das eine bekannte Melodie bis zur Unkenntlichkeit entstellt. Denken Sie an jemanden, der halb Engel, halb Teufel und ganz Mensch ist ... An einen Jungen, der hoffnungsvoll nach Tadfield latscht. Fuer immer ... %A Terry Pratchett/Gray Joliffe %T Echte Katzen tragen niemals Schleifen %I Droemer & Knaur %D January 1991 Blurb: Wuerden Sie eine echte Katze erkennen, wenn sie Ihnen ueber den Weg laeuft? Nicht diese gestylten, braven, gesunden und lieben Kreaturen aus der Fernseh-reklame sind hier gemeint. Es geht um die Sorte Katzen, die grundsaetzlich nicht aus den fuer sie vorgesehenen Schuesseln fressen, die Flohhalsbaender verab- scheuen, die immer das Oeffnen der Kuehlschranktuer bemerken, selbst wenn sie gerade wieder einmal das Strickzeug in der Mangel haben - launisch, frech, ver- schlagen und doch liebenswert. ---------------------------------------- 6.2 Swedish %A Terry Pratchett %T Magins F{rg %I Target Games AB %D 1989 ISBN 91-7898-062-3 Blurb: RAMLA INTE AV KANTEN! Skivv{rlden best}r, som namnet antyder, av en skiva som b{rs fram genom universum p} en j{ttesk|ldpaddas rygg (av ok{nt k|n). I dess st|rsta stad, Ankh, bor den misslyckade, fege och snikne trollkarlen Rensvind (som l{mnade magikeruniversitetet med en enda trollformel i bagaget). Han tvingas ta hand om en Tv}blomster, en naiv fr{mling som str|r guld omkring sig i en stad d{r de flesta utan att blinka skulle strypa sin mor f|r arvets skull, men lyckas inte b{ttre {n att hela staden s{tts i brand. %A Terry Pratchett %T Det Fantastiska Ljuset %I Target Games AB %D 1990 ISBN 91-7898-073-9 Blurb: [r vi fortfarande d|da? Skivv{rlden befinner sig p} kollisionskurs med en ondskefull r|d stj{rna, och det finns bara en person som kan f|rhindra katastrofen! Oturligtvis r}kar det vara den ovanligt misslyckade och fege trollkarlen Rensvind, som senast syntes till d} han ramlade |ver v{rldens kant. Enligt en urgammal profetia kan Skivv{rlden (som b{rs fram genom rymden av en j{ttesk|ldpadda) bara r{ddas om alla de ]tta Stora Besv{rjelserna uttalas samtidigt - det {r bara det att en av dem finns i Rensvinds huvud, och den har just talat om f|r honom att han ska h}lla sig undan... %A Terry Pratchett %T Trollkarlens Stav %I Target Games AB %D 1991 ISBN 91-7898-125-5 Blurb: I morgon d|r jag! N{r trollkarlen Drum Billet sk}dar in i sin egen framtid inser han att det {r dags att |verl{mna sin trollkarlsstav till en arvinge. Som alla vet {r det den }ttonde sonen till en }ttonde son som har m|jlighet att bli trollkarl. Kvinnor kan inte bli trollkarlar. ("Var st}r det att kvinnor inte kan bli trollkarlar?" "Det st}r inte n}gonstans, det st}r |verallt.") N{r man vet det, borde man d} inte vara lite noggrannare med att ta reda p} om det }ttonde barnet verkligen {r en son eller inte... Vad som h{nder n{r lilla Eskarina f}r en trollkarlsstav den dag hon f|ds och hur det g}r n{r Mormor V{dervax, legitimerad h{xa, ska f|rs|ka l{ra henne allt hon kan, {r en halsbrytande fars som du sent kommer att gl|mma. %A Terry Pratchett %T Mort %I Target Games AB %D 1992 ISBN 91-7898-153-3 Blurb: D\DEN TAR INTE ALLA! Mort {r en f|ga l|ftesrik, g{nglig ton}ring som blir l{rling hos D|den, men visar sig vara allt annat {n l{mpad till att slussa sj{lar bort fr}n v{rlden. Faktum {r, att n{r det g{ller den ganska attraktiva prinsessan Keli (som skall l|nnm|r- das), trampar Mort totalt i klaveret. Han d|dar l|nnm|rdaren ist{llet, och l{gger sig d{rmed i \dets of|rsonliga arbete. Men verkligheten {ndras inte s} l{tt; historien som den skulle ha utspelat sig b|rjar ta form runt Kelis stadsstat Sto Lat. Kan Mort r{dda Keli innan hon pressas ur tillvaron? ---------------------------------------- 6.3 French ---------------------------------------- 6.4 American The Colour of Magic 0 451 45112 0 (ROC PB) 0 451 15705 2 (Signet PB) The Light Fantastic 0 451 16241 2 (Signet PB) Equal Rites 0 451 45092 2 (ROC PB) Mort 0 451 45113 9 0 451 15923 3 (Signet PB) Sourcery 0 451 16233 1 (Signet PB) Wyrd Sisters 0 451 45012 4 (ROC PB) Pyramids 0 451 45044 2 (ROC PB) Guards! Guards! 0 451 45089 2 (ROC PB) Moving Pictures 0 451 45131 7 (ROC PB) Reaper Man 0 451 45168 6 (ROC PB) Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman) 0 894 80853 2 (HB) 0 425 13215 3 (Berkeley, PB) Strata 0 451 45111 2 (ROC PB) [Others? Which of these are HB/PB Editions?] ---------------------------------------- 6.5 Dutch 6.5.1 The Colour of Magic %A Terry Pratchett %T De Kleur van Toverij %I Het Spectrum %D 1991 ISBN 90 274 2757 7 Blurb: Maak kennis met de schijf van de Wereld die rust op de gebruinde schouders van vier enorme olifanten die getorst worden door De Grote Schildpad. Ga mee op een vrolijke, explosieve, goddeloze expeditie naar de Rand van de Planeet met een hebzuchtige maar totaal onbekwame tovenaar, een naieve toerist wiens bagage zich voortbeweegt op honderden kleine beentjes en met draken die alleen maar bestaan als er in ze geloofd wordt... ---------------------------------------- 6.5.2 The Light Fantastic %A Terry Pratchett %T Dat Wonderbare Licht %I Het Spectrum %D ISBN Blurb: ---------------------------------------- 6.5.3 Equal Rites %A Terry Pratchett %T Meidezeggenschap %I Het Spectrum %D 1992 ISBN 90 274 2901 4 Blurb: Dit verhaal gaat over toverij en waar die heengaat en misschien nog belangrijker: waar die vandaan komt en waarom dan wel, al heeft het niet de pretentie een antwoord te geven op al die vragen of zelfs maar een ervan. Niettemin kan het helpen verklaren waarom Gandalf nooit getrouwd is en waarom Merlijn een man was. Omdat dit verhaal ook handelt over sex, zij het wellicht niet in de atletische, rollebollende, tel-de-benen-en- deel-dan-door-twee betekenis, tenzij de hoofdpersonen de schrijver volstrekt uit de hand lopen. Ze zijn ertoe in staat. Toch gaat dit verhaal vooral over een wereld. Hier komt hij al aan. Kijk goed, de trucs en stunteffecten zijn tamelijk duur... ---------------------------------------- 6.5.4 Mort %A Terry Pratchett %T Dunne Hein %I Het Spectrum %D 1992 ISBN 90 274 2995 2 Blurb: Dunne Hein is een onnozele, talentloze bonestaak en zijn vader is blij wanneer hij een baantje voor hem vindt als leerjongen van De Dood. Maar Hein blijkt ook al niet de gave te bezitten om zielen de wereld uit te leiden. Sterker, wanneer de aantrekkelijke prinses Kiela vermoord gaat worden, verknalt hij het volledig. Hij vermoordt de moordenaar en verstoort daarmee de Onafwendbare Werking Van het Noodlot. En De Dood, die veel te veel aan Dunne Hein overlaat, begint verrassend menselijke trekjes te vertonen: drinken, dobbelen en grappen maken. Dunne Hein daarentegen wordt steeds minder vrolijk en is steeds meer geneigd om IN HOLLE HOOFDLETTERS TE SPREKEN... ---------------------------------------- 6.5.5 Sourcery %A Terry Pratchett %T Betoverkind %I Het Spectrum %D 1992 ISBN 90 274 3103 5 Blurb: Betoverkind is de achtste zoon van de achtste zoon van een achtste zoon. Al op tienjarige leeftijd is hij machtiger dan de machtigste tovenaar van de Schijfwereld. Vergeleken met zijn magie is de rest maar geknoei in een punthoed. Rinzwind is ook een tovenaar, maar een eersteklas prutser en nog laf op de koop toe. Toch is hij het tot wie Conina het barbaarse kapstertje zich wendt om de Hoed der Hoeden in veiligheid te brengen. De Hoed zelf, gewend aan het hoofd van het Hoofd der Tovenaars, is weinig te spreken over haar keuze. Ook Bagage is weer van de partij, de kist met de honderden beentjes, waarvan niemand precies weet of het nu een reiskist, een was- en strijkinrichting, of een maniakale moordmachine is, en draagt het zijne ertoe bij de chaos op de Schijfwereld nog groter te maken... ---------------------------------------- 6.5.6 Wyrd Sisters %A Terry Pratchett %T De Plaagzusters %I Het Spectrum %D ISBN Blurb: Koninkrijken wankelen, kronen wiebelen en messen flitsen op de toverwereld van de Schijf als heksen zich gaan bemoeien met de koninklijke politiek. Wanneer Opoe Wedersmeer (uit _Meidezeggenschap_) voor het eerst met haar heksenkringcollega's het theater bezoekt, ziet ze daar alles wat je ook in het echt tegenkomt: gebochelde koningen, weggeraakte kronen, doodgestoken prinsen en vermomde erfgenamen. Alleen, Opoe ziet geen verschil tussen toneel en werkelijkheid en verdeelt de rollen op haar eigen manier. Vandaar die onweersbui met plankenkoorts en een heksenbezem die in de vlucht wordt bijgetankt. Ze zal alles op alles zetten om de rechtmatige koning op de troon te krijgen... ---------------------------------------- 6.6 Spanish El color de la magia The Colour of Magic La luz fantastica The Light Fantastic Ritos iguales Equal Rites Mort Mort Rechicero Sourcery Piromides Pyramids There is no translation of _Wyrd Sisters_ available yet, but there are translations of the Truckers series, and a rumour is going round about a translation of _Good Omens_. ---------------------------------------- 6.7 Italian %T I colori della Magia %I Mondadori ISBN 88-04-35085-7 %X Contains: The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Equal Rites. %A Terry Pratchett %T Il mondo del Disco %I Mondadori ISBN 88-04-36520-X %X Contains: Mort, Sourcery, Wyrd Systers. %A Terry Pratchett %T Il piccolo popolo dei grandi magazzini %I Salani ISBN 88-7782-174-4 %X Italian translation of Truckers %A Gray Jolliffe, Terry Pratchett %T Il gatto doc %I Sperling&Kupfer ISBN 88-200-1096-8 %X Italian translation of The Unadulterated Cat ---------------------------------------- 6.8 Finnish The Unadulterated Cat has been published in Finnish as ``Tosikissa ei kirppuja kiroile'' (Art House, 1990, Helsinki). Wyrd Sisters is translated as ``Noitasiskot'' with the original Josh Kirby cover. ---------------------------------------- 7 Miscellany This section lists short stories, trade articles, and similar items published by Terry. ---------------------------------------- 7.1 Short Stories His first short story was "The Hades Business", published in Science Fantasy #60 (vol 20, 1963). He has also sold "Night Dweller" in _New Worlds_ (187), and _Time Out_ magazine's Christmas 1987 issue (number 904/5) had "Twenty Pence With Envelope and Seasonal Greeting". He has short stories in several collections: * Digital Dreams. This is a collection of computer related sf short stories. [?] * After The King. This is a Tolkien tribute of fantasy stories. His story is "Troll Bridge" and features Cohen the Barbarian, from the Discworld. [ISBN ?] * Forbidden Planet SF Anthology 2. "Forbidden Planet" is an SF/fantasy/comics specialist shop in London. The ISBN is 1 85286 332 8. * Now We are Sick, edited by Neil Gaiman and Stephen Jones. A collection of grim poetry. Two editions: the Limited Edition (ISBN 0-9630944-0-8) and the Trade Edition (ISBN 0-9630944-1-6). * "Hidden Turnings", edited by Diana Wynne Jones. His story is "Turntables of the Night". The book was first published in Great Britain by Methuen Children's book in 1989. Then published 1990 by Teens Mandarin, an imprint of Mandarin Paperbacks (Mandarin is an imprint of the Octopus Publishing Group). ISBN 0 74970279 6. * "The Drabble Project", edited by Rob Meads and David B. Wake. It was published in 1988. The title of Terry's story is "Incubust". ----------------------------------------