Path: bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.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: alt.fan.pratchett FAQ Supersedes: Followup-To: alt.fan.pratchett Date: 31 Dec 1993 11:00:26 GMT Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand. Lines: 672 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:11503 news.answers:13482 alt.answers:1521 Archive-name: pratchett/faq Maintained-by: pratchett-faq@vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington) ---------------------------------------- Changes as at $Date: 93/09/15 13:19:51 $: * clarecraft phone no. ---------------------------------------- This is the list of frequently asked questions (and their answers) for the newsgroup alt.fan.pratchett. There is biographical information about Terry Pratchett, a list of his books and their ISBN numbers, as well as information about his books, his collaborators and other fun stuff. Where possible, pointers to existing information (such as books, magazine articles, and ftp sites) are included here, rather than rehashing that information again. If you haven't already done so, now is as good a time as any to read the guide to Net etiquette which is posted to news.announce.newusers regularly. You should be familiar with acronyms like FAQ, FTP and IMHO, as well as know about smileys, followups and when to reply by email to postings. 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/news.answers/pratchett/faq. 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 get archived news.answers posts by e-mail. This FAQ was mostly written by Nathan Torkington, with numerous contributions by readers of alt.fan.pratchett (the Maestro himself included). Credits appear at the end. 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 Biographical Information 1.1 Personal History 1.2 How He came to write 1.3 Neil Gaiman 1.4 Josh Kirby 2 Eccentricities of Books 2.1 Eric 2.2 UK Bookstores 2.3 US Bookstores 2.4 Translations 2.5 Covers and the absence of Kirby 3 Computers and TP 3.1 His E-Mail address 3.2 His Setup 3.3 "The Colour of Magic" Game 4 Merchandising 4.1 The Royal Position 4.2 Discworld Models 4.3 Octarine 4.4 Discworld Maps 4.5 Truckers Video 4.6 Computer Games 4.7 The Mort Film 5 Related Files 5.1 The Terry Pratchett Bibliography 5.2 The Annotated Pratchett 5.3 The Pratchett Archives 6 Miscellany 6.1 Similar Authors 6.2 Rincewind's Name 6.3 More Rincewind 6.4 The Future 6.5 Inconsistencies 6.6 Appearances 6.7 The Hedgehog Song 6.8 Copyright (c) Terry and Lyn Pratchett ---------------------------------------- 1 Biographical Information This section contains the biographical notes from his novels, some notes about how he came to write, and short biographical notes about Neil Gaiman and Josh Kirby. ---------------------------------------- 1.1 Personal History Terry Pratchett is an author of humourous fantasy-based science-fiction novels. He has been favourably compared to Douglas Adams, P.G Wodehouse and Tom Sharpe. A lot of people rather like his books. (This is stolen from his liner notes:) Terry Pratchett is, on average, a sort of youngish middle-aged. He lives in Somerset with his wife and daughter, and long ago chose journalism as a career because it was indoor work with no heavy lifting. Beyond that he positively refuses to be drawn. People never read these biographies anyway, do they? They want to get on with the book, not wade through masses of prose designed to suggest that the author is really a very interesting person so look, okay, he wrote these other books, all right. Most were also about the Discworld, and actually quite a lot of people liked them. He grows carnivorous plants as a hobby; they are a lot less interesting than people believe. * * * For those people who really need to know, Terry Pratchett was born in Buckinghamshire in 1948. He's managed to avoid all the really interesting jobs authors take in order to look good in this sort of biography. In his search for a quiet life he got a job as a Press officer with the Central Electricity Generating Board just after Three Mile Island, which shows his unerring sense of timing. He now writes full time. It's true about the carnivorous plants, though. (and this one is stolen from Guards! Guards!:) Terry Pratchett was born in 1948 and is still not dead. He started work as a journalist one day in 1965 and saw his first corpse three hours later, work experience _meaning_ something in those days. After doing just about every job it's possible to do in provincial journalism, except of course covering Saturday afternoon football, he joined the Central Electricity Generating Board and became press officier for four nuclear power stations. He'd write a book about his experiences if he thought anyone would believe it. All this came to an end in 1987 when it became obvious that the Discworld series was much more enjoyable than real work. Since then the books have reached double figures and have a regular place in the bestseller lists. He's also written three books for children (the _Truckers_ trilogy). Occasionally he gets accused of literature. Terry Pratchett lives in Somerset with his wife Lyn and daughter Rhianna. He says writing is the most fun anyone can have by themselves. The Carpet People adds: [TP lives in Somerset] where he grows carnivorous plants and tries to make computers do things they were never intended to do. Only You Can Save Mankind: [TP lives in Somerset], and says he writes for anyone old enough to understand. Lords and Ladies: He also grows carnivorous plants and thinks the world could use more orang-utans. ---------------------------------------- 1.2 How He came to write He started writing short stories, several of which were published. His first, "The Hades Business", which was published in Science Fantasy #60 (vol 20, 1963) was the first story he ever wrote. He got 10/10 for it (the first time he had gotten 10/10 for anything except for a painting which his teacher had *thought* were two dinosaurs fighting) and it was published in the school magazine. There it would have ended, except for his school headmaster who addressed an assembly shortly afterward and announced that he didn't approve of the "moral tone" of the story. Well, the magazine, which would have struggled to break even, sold out within 15 minutes. He learned an important lesson, right then - by writing it is possible to infuriate your enemies as well as please your friends. He then had the story typed up by his Aunt and sold it to Science Fantasy, and with the profits bought a typewriter. This his first act as an income-earner was to fire his Aunt. His mother rewarded this Thatcherite attitude and paid for his typing lessons and he was on his way. ---------------------------------------- 1.3 Neil Gaiman Neil Gaiman is an sf author whose credits include: * the _Sandman Comics_ (monthly, 5 collections so far: - Preludes and Nocturnes [1 85286 326 9], - The Dolls House [0 930289 59 5] and - Dream Country [1 56389 016], - Seasons of Mist [1 56389 041 0]) - A Game of You [? Vertigo/DC comics] * _Black_Orchid_ (a one-off comic in 3 parts, also now collected in a single graphic novel [1 85286 336 6] published by Titan Books), * _Violent_Cases_ [1 85286 372 2] published by Titan Books, or [0 9509568 64] published by Escape. * _Signal_to_Noise_ [0 575 05284 8] published by VG Graphics. This was originally serialised in _The_Face_ magazine. Dark Horse Comics recently released in the US [1 878574 43 4]. * _The Books of Magic_ [1 56389 082 8], separate books I to IV, illustrated by various artists, printed by DC Comics. The ISBN # is for the collection. * _Temps_ (a collection of superhero short stories which claims to be "Devised by Neil Gaiman and Alex Stewart" [0 14 014560 5]), a sequel being _Eurotemps_ [0 14 016713 7], * _Ghastly Beyond Belief_ (an anthology of truly awful SF) [0-09-936830-7], * _The Weerde_ [0 14 014562 1] devised by Mary Gentle, Neil Gaiman & Roz Kaveney * _Villains!_ [0 14 014561 3] created by Mary Gentle & Neil Gaiman * and _Don't Panic: The Official Companion to The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy_ [1 85286 0138 8]. ---------------------------------------- 1.4 Josh Kirby Josh Kirby is an artist who has been drawing covers for many years now. He has done the covers for (among others) Terry Pratchett, Craig Shaw Gardner, Esther Friesner, Dan McGirt and the new editions of Tom Holt's novels. He also illustrated the Discworld (sort-of picture) book "Eric". He has at least two poster books out, one with large versions of the first seven Discworld covers. One is "In the Garden of Unearthly Delights", published by Paper Tiger in 1991. It's ISBN is 1-85028-154-8. It costs #9.95 (pounds sterling) and runs to 143 pages of artwork. The other is "The Josh Kirby Poster Book" (they obviously paid large sums to an advertising agency for that title) published by Corgi in 1991. [ISBN?] ---------------------------------------- 2 Eccentricities of Books Terry's books are available to varying degrees in the different countries around the world. Enclosed here is some information on which books were released where, as well as some addresses for stores that are reliable. ---------------------------------------- 2.1 Eric Eric wasn't released in the US, because Roc were uneasy about the big edition and didn't buy it; people are talking to them now about the mass market version. (source, Terry Pratchett post on 8 Aug 1992). ---------------------------------------- 2.2 UK Bookstores Andromeda Books, 84 Suffolk Street, Birmingham, BA1 1TA, UK Forbidden Planet, 11 (I think, but what the hell, it'll find them) New Oxford Street, London ---------------------------------------- 2.3 US Bookstores [?] ---------------------------------------- 2.4 Translations [?] ---------------------------------------- 2.5 Covers and the absence of Kirby Later US editions don't have Kirby covers. Apparently the Kirby covers make for confusion with Craig Shaw's Gardner's "humourous" fantasy (which isn't at all in Terry's league). This is only true of Sourcery and later books. The Colour of Magic through Mort had the same Kirby covers as the UK editions. Non-Kirby covers are coming out on reprints of his earlier Discworld books, in the hopes of attracting an audience that would otherwise be put off by the Kirby covers. ---------------------------------------- 3 Computers and TP Terry is not only interested in computers, but is also on the net. ---------------------------------------- 3.1 His E-Mail address His e-mail address is TerryP@unseen.demon.co.uk. He warns that "people who email me direct will get terse answers to the 'Hey, you're not really TP, are you?' type questions, which still seem to be turning up -- and I also tend to get a bit brief when its questions that get regularly aired in the conference. Apart from that, I'm a real polite correspondent -- if I have time ...". ---------------------------------------- 3.2 His Setup He owns the fastest 486 he could buy, he writes with WordPerfect 4.2 and uses a laptop when travelling. He doesn't like windows or mice. He also used to own an Amstrad, and is a fan of the classic isometric perspective games, _Batman_ and _Head Over Heels_. ---------------------------------------- 3.3 "The Colour of Magic" Game There was a game called "The Colour of Magic" released by Delta 4, which contained passages straight from the book. It was available for 8-bit machines, the Spectrum and C64. It was produced by the company behind _Bored of the Rings_, _Robin of Sherlock_ and _The Boggit_, using the Quill adventure creator. It even had a picture of Death when you died, wearing a "Have a nice day" badge. ---------------------------------------- 4 Merchandising There are a lot of informal efforts at merchandising around, but no really commercial ones. This section explains why. ---------------------------------------- 4.1 The Royal Position "'Everything works if people are sensible': It's all down to who's doin what, for whom, and what might loosely be called the spirit of the whole thing. Fans doing things for other fans, such as Octarine does in the UK, (t-shirts and stuff for cost+) -- that's fine. And I've let people do more than that to raise funds for a con. I'd only get twitchy if it looked as though we were in real merchandising territory -- four-colour sweatshirts in Forbidden Planet, adverts in magazines ... and my concern there would be as much about fans getting value for money as anything else." ---------------------------------------- 4.2 Discworld Models Thanks to gds@ukc.ac.uk (G.D.Staines) for this: Discworld characters - everyone from Death to Great A'Tuin himself (or herself) - step (or crawl) out of the page in a new range of models by Bernard Pearson, ClareCraft, Woolpit, Suffolk IP30 9SH. Tel:+44 359 241277 for a list of stockists or further information. ---------------------------------------- 4.3 Octarine Terry has this to say: The officially unofficial Not-the-Terry-Pratchett-Fan-Club. The guy to write to is Chris Tregenza, 14 Runswick Drive, Wollaton, Nottingham, NG8 1JN. It's like this: a couple of years ago they approached me, and I said I thought it would be an amazingly bad idea (I mean, what do you do after issue three of the magazine: 'Um. He's done another book. It's great/okay/ not as good as the last one IMHO. Um. Is he losing more hair, or what?' So I suggested they broaden the base to include humourous sf/fantasy generally. And it seems to have worked. They resemble ZZ9 a lot and there's an overlap of members; I'd say it's probably more an organisation that people who like the DW books might enjoy belonging to rather than a fan club). I go along to their birthday meetings (to merry cries of "Who's he?", "Throw him out!" and so on). But there's no learned articles on the DW, no signed photos of The Master, no 'official news' ... and that's fine by me. ---------------------------------------- 4.4 Discworld Maps A map of A-M is being prepared for the Discworld Companion. The guy doing it had to pinpoint the Assassins' Guild, for example, from references in six different books. Worked, too. (Don't ask when it's coming out -- one day ...). Did you know there are no fewer than eight eating/drinking places mentioned in A-M? TP didn't. More information - the guy doing it is Steven Briggs (the chap who is also adapting books for theatre) and it will probably, weighing one thing with another, in the balance of circumstance, given full reservation and understanding that the world is an uncertain place, be out in late '93. ---------------------------------------- 4.5 Truckers Video There is a video of _Truckers_ available. The details are: Thames Television International, Video Collection International VHS TV 8159, 110 minutes, VHS-PAL, price: approx. 8 pounds. ---------------------------------------- 4.6 Computer Games See section 3.3. The company went out of business, so currently there are no Discworld computer games. Terry wants you to seek his OK before you write Discworld MUDs. His e-mail address is in section 3.1 ---------------------------------------- 4.7 The Mort Film A production company was put together and there was US and Scandinavian and European involvement, and I wrote a couple of script drafts which wet down well and everything was looking fine and then the US people said "Hey, we've been doing market research in Power Cable, Nebraska, and other centes of culture, and the Death/skeleton bit doesn't work for us, it's a bit of a downer, we have a prarm with it, so lose the skeleton". The rest of the consortium said, did you read the script? The Americans said: sure, we LOVE it, it's GREAT, it's HIGH CONCEPT. Just lose the Death angle, guys. Whereupon, I'm happy to say, they were told to keep on with the medication and come back in a hundred years. Currently, since the amount of money available for making movies in Europe is about sixpence, the consortium is looking for some more intelligent Americans in the film business. This may prove difficult. It could have been worse. I've heard what Good Omens was looking like by the time Sovereign's option mercifully ran out -- set in America, no Four Horsemen...oh god. (from Terry himself, 2 Nov 1992) ---------------------------------------- 4.8 Plays The Guards! Guards! play (early June next year): Write to: Stephen Briggs, 23 Elms Drive, Old Marston, Oxford OX3 ONN ... who is in the bemused state of taking tons of orders ALREADY. In the wind also are another version of MORT and, aha, a musical based on Wyrd Sisters. There are also various tentative plans for DW productions in Australia and California (GAG ME WITH A SPOON). As soon as things are firm, they'll get posted here and on CIX in the UK. (Terry himself, 29 Oct 1992) MORT...the Play. The three-thespian version of Mort was by the Flying Thing Theatre Company of Liverpool and was on in that city earlier this year. I've just heard that they're well into planning a tour in SW England for the first three months of '93. They're worth seeing. I laughed a lot (even though they're partly mime artists). As soon as I hear their finalised tour dates, I'll post them here and on CIX. (Terry himself, 2 Nov 1992) ---------------------------------------- 5 Related Files Terry is a popular chappie. Here are some other electronically available documents which you might like to look at. ---------------------------------------- 5.1 The Terry Pratchett Bibliography Circulated by Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz this contains ISBN numbers, titles and blurbs for all TP's books. It should be available (soon) via FTP as ftp.uu.net:/pub/usenet/news.answers/pratchett/bibliography This is posted around the first and fifteenth of every month to alt.fan.pratchett alt.answers and news.answers ---------------------------------------- 5.2 The Annotated Pratchett Circulated by leo@cp.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart), this explains the subtleties of Terry's works. It is currently at v5.0 and can be retrieved via anonymous FTP from the Pratchett Archives. ---------------------------------------- 5.3 The Pratchett Archives Leo Breebaart (leo@cp.tn.tudelft.nl) maintains an FTP site of Pratchett related material that is mirrored around the world. The home site is: ftp.cp.tn.tudelft.nl:pub/pratchett It is mirrored in the USA by theory.lcs.mit.edu:/pub/pratchett rincewind.mech.virginia.edu:pub/pratchett and in Australia by ftp.uts.edu.au:/Mirror/Pratchett This FAQ, the Annotated Pratchett, the bibliographic information, rules for Cripple Mr Onion, lyrics to the Hedgehog Song, and gifs of all the covers are kept on these sites as well as quote files and .sig files. ---------------------------------------- 6 Miscellany Here's some stuff that didn't fit into any other category. ---------------------------------------- 6.1 Similar Authors P.G. Wodehouse, Douglas Adams, Jerome K. Jerome, Robert Rankin, Tom Sharpe, Tom Holt, Calvin Trillin, P.J O'Rourke and Dave Barry are some people whose styles are similar. ---------------------------------------- 6.2 Rincewind's Name Terry himself pronounces it to rhyme with "Mince pinned" and in Eric, Rincewind meets his ancestor whose translated name means "Washer [Rinser?] of Winds". Evidence would then tend to point to this pronounciation. ---------------------------------------- 6.3 More Rincewind Terry has said that he will write another Rincewind novel. When? Well, that's a different question :-) [more?] ---------------------------------------- 6.4 The Future The next DW book will be a sequel to Guards! Guards!, containing a slightly expanded City Watch (a troll and a dwarf now on the strength as a result of affirmative action hiring procedures) Captain Vimes' wedding day, and Carrot learning a thing or two.... The title is "Men at Arms", and it will be published in November. ---------------------------------------- 6.5 Inconsistencies Well, he *is* fallible. Known inconsistencies are: * the number of eyes that Greebo has in _Witches_Abroad_ * in _TCOM_, All's Fallowe is the one night of the year when witches stay home in bed. In _Wyrd_Sisters_ however, this occurs on Hogswatch night. * there are inconsistencies about smells: in _TLF_, Rincewind asks what a smell is, and Twoflower thinks that it is bacon. Later on, however, Twoflower is described as having "no sense of smell". Rincewind, in _Sourcery_, is an Ankh-Morporkian who (like all Ankh-Morporkians) has no sense of smell. * there are lots of geographical inconsistencies, which caused TP to preface _Sourcery_ with "This book does not contain a map. Please feel free to draw your own". One of the major inconsistencies which few people spot is that given the size of the Disc, and the distance the sun would therefore need to travel around it in 24 hours, and that light travels at the speed of sound in the high magical field, then the sun is actually orbiting the Disc at twice the speed of its own light. * When Rincewind meets Death in Ankh-Morpork, in _The_ Colour_Of_Magic_, people walk through Death. Whereas later on, people are described as avoiding him. * In TCOM, Death kills a fly. The Death from Mort and later books would never do such a thing - it changes reality. * In TCOM, Liessa is referred to as "Liessa" right through the book, until the bit where she rescues Hrun from the long drop off Twoflower's dragon. Then she gets called "Lianna". * REAPER MAN: Miss Flitworth refers to "[her] Reggie" about midway through the book, but refers to "Rufus" when the two lovers' souls are finally reunited. ---------------------------------------- 6.6 Appearances Book signings: None. We cut his arms off so he wouldn't sign any more books and he'd just get on with writing them. Well, maybe: 29th October: Belfast (Easons?) 30th Dublin (FP or Waterstones) and then dropping in on Octacon in the afternoon 3rd November HAMMICKS, Harrow - 7pm 4th Waterstones, Leadenhall Mkt, London - 12.30 " Books Etc, Oxford St - 6.30 5th Dillons, Ealing Boradway Centre - 12.30 " Murder 1, Charing Cross Road - 5.00 6th Andromeda, Suffolk St, Birmingham - 10.30 " Forbidden Planet, London -- 3.30 18th HEFFERS, Trinity St, Cambridge - 1pm 19th GEORGE'S, Park Street, Bristol - 12.30 " W H Smiths, Union Street, Bath - 4pm 20th H J LEARS, Royal Arcade, Cardiff - 11.30 " Forbidden Planet, Lear St, Cardiff - 3pm 23rd Waterstones, Orchard Square, Sheffield - 12.30 " Probably Dillons or Waterstones in York 24th Austicks, Wood House Lane, Leeds - 12.30 " Waterstones (talk/signing) Albion St, Leeds - 7pm 25th Waterstones, Southport, Merseyside - 12.30 " Waterstones. Fishergate, Preston -- 7.30 (and afterwards talking to the local SF society. 26th SHERRATT & HUGHES, St Ann's Square, Manchester - 12.30 - then on to one at Odyssey 7 in the Precinct Centre at 4.30 Cons: Orycon - Portland, Oregon, November 1993 ---------------------------------------- 6.7 The Hedgehog Song It would appear that there was a Hedgehog song around the '20s, if not before, with the same refrain as the Discworld song. However, Terry says "since I doubt it ever could have been in print, I can bravely plead parallel evolution at most. There is a certain, how shall I put it, natural cadence to the words." ---------------------------------------- 6.8 Copyright (c) Terry and Lyn Pratchett Terry assigns copyright to himself and his wife for financial reasons (tax, etc). 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