From: gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington)
Subject: Terry Pratchett Bibliography
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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 and alt.fan.pratchett.
All posts to news.answers are archived, and it is possible to retrieve
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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 -s 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

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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
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
7 Miscellany

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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.

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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_.

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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.

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1.3 Equal Rites

%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Light Fantastic
%I Corgi
%D
ISBN	0 552 13105 9

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_.

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1.4 Mort

%A Terry Pratchett
%T Mort
%I Corgi
%D
ISBN	0 552 13106 7

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 ....

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1.5 Sourcery

%A Terry Pratchett
%T Sourcery
%I Corgi
%D
ISBN	0 552 13107 5

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.

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1.6 Wyrd Sisters

%A Terry Pratchett
%T Wyrd Sisters
%I Corgi
%D 1989
ISBN	0 552 13460 0

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 ...

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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 ...

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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!

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1.9 Eric

%A Terry Pratchett
%T Eric
%I Corgi
%D
ISBN	0 575 05191 4 (Non Illustrated)
	0 575 04836 0 (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.
	When 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.

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1.10 Moving Pictures

%A Terry Pratchett
%T Moving Pictures
%I Corgi
%D
ISBN	0 552 13463 5

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!

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1.11 Reaper Man

%A Terry Pratchett
%T Reaper Man
%I Corgi
%D
ISBN #	0 575 04979 0 (Hardback)
	0 552 13464 3 (Paperback)

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.

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1.12 Witches Abroad

%A Terry Pratchett
%T Witches Abroad
%I Victor Gollancz
%D
ISBN	0 575 04980 4 (Hardback)

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 ...

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1.13 Small Gods

%A Terry Pratchett
%T Small Gods
%I Victor Gollancz
%D
ISBN	0 575 05222 8 (Hardback)

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?)

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1.14 Lords and Ladies

[This book hasn't been released yet]

%A Terry Pratchett
%T Lords and Ladies
%I
%D
ISBN	

Blurb:

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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.

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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:
	[need a blurb]
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2.2 Strata

%A Terry Pratchett
%T Strata
%C
%I
%D
ISBN	0 552 13325 6 (Hardback)

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 ...

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2.3 The Dark Side of the Sun

%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Dark Side of the Sun
%C
%I
%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?

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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).

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3.1 Truckers

%A Terry Pratchett
%T Truckers
%C
%I
%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 ...

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3.2 Diggers

%A Terry Pratchett
%T Diggers
%C
%I
%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?

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3.3 Wings

%A Terry Pratchett
%T Wings
%C
%I
%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 ...

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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).

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4.1 Only You Can Save The World

%A Terry Pratchett
%T Only You Can Save The World
%C
%I Doubleday
%D 1992
ISBN	0 385 40308 9

Blurb:

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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.

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5.1 Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman)

%A Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
%T Good Omens
%C
%I
%D
ISBN	

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 ...

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5.2 The Unadulterated Cat (with Gray Joliffe)

%A Terry Pratchett and Gray Joliffe
%T The Unadulterated Cat
%C
%I
%D
ISBN: 0 575 04628 7

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.

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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").

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6.1 German

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6.2 Swedish

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6.3 French

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6.4 American

The Colour of Magic			0 451 45112 0
					0 451 15705 2 (NEL Edition)
Equal Rites				0 451 45092 2
Mort					0 451 45113 9
Pyramids				0 451 45044 2
Guards! Guards!				0 451 45089 2
Moving Pictures				0 451 45131 7
Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman)		0 894 80853 2 (HB)
					0 425 13215 3 (Berkeley, PB)
Reaper Man				0 451 45168 6 (Roc, PB)
Strata					0 451 45111 2
[Others?  Which of these are HB/PB Editions?]

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7  Miscellany

This section lists short stories, trade articles, and similar items
published by Terry.

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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).

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).

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