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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: DW ideas
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:07:37 +0000

>So who out there has thought, at some time or other, that they had
>a really good idea which would make good material for a DW book,
>character or even a single gag?

Thanks, Mike.  Aaaargh!  I won't say you've got exactly the next DW plot --
maybe YOU are the real TP -- but have you been sneaking a look in my text
directory? Hah, but by the time I've worked on it, it'll all be different...

Anyone posting DW ideas: PLEASE put on the top TERRY, DON'T READ THIS.  I
hate people giving me DW ideas -- if they're good, I'm stealing, if they're
not, what the hell...Dozens of people have 'suggested' a DW newspapers plot,
and 20,000 words of that one has existed for more than two years.  But it's
in obeyance for various reasons (it seemed to be getting too much like MP)

Terry
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From: gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington)
Subject: Re: DW setting and typoes
Organization: Contract to CSC, Victoria Uni, Wellington, New Zealand
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 02:41:22 GMT
	<1992Jul29.162355.10353@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>

> No chapters in latest DW books

That's an interesting point - it's from around Pyramids onwards
(Pyramids has Books, but not chapters :).  I only just noticed it
three days ago, when a friend pointed it out to me - proving, I guess,
that it doesn't really show.  It makes a brilliant excuse for
mother/hubby/roommate, when they ask "turn off the light and go to
sleep" you can say "when I finish the chapter" :-).

Nat
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From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: Re: DW setting and typoes
In-reply-to: gordon@robots.oxford.ac.uk's message of 28 Jul 92 11:50:26 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 17:05:44 EDT

In article <4141@inca.comlab.ox.ac.uk> gordon@robots.oxford.ac.uk (Gordon Buxton) writes:
>In article <memo.544949@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>>Go on...tell me more about comic timing...
>>
>>
>>Terry
>
>
>Oooooooooh, He flamed me, He flamed me ... <swoon>
>
>Gordon ;-)

Excellent! This puts him at, what, Stage 5 or 6?

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From: rizzoe@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU (Emily Rizzo)
Subject: Re: Unadulterated Cat                       
Organization: New York University
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:35:37 GMT

In article <memo.536487@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
Terry Pratchett writes:

>The Unadulterated Cat is coming out as a mass-market paperback RSN -- in
>August, I think.

Will this also be available in the US?  There seems to be a tremendous 
market for anything about cats here.  Maybe I could even get my sister to 
read it!  I finally forced "Good Omens" on her (I didn't know which TP was 
the best for a reluctant beginner) and she was thrown off by the dedication 
to G. K. Chesterton and hasn't quite recovered -- I think she was expecting
something with more philosophical content.

--
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Department of Economics
New York University 
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                                   --- Mike Cross

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From: echeverr@chaph.usc.edu (5150)
Subject: You geeks
Followup-To: alt.fan.pratchett,misc.test,talk.bizarre
Reply-To: rone@skat.usc.edu (5150)
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 03:57:06 GMT

I've been looking through this group and I've gotta say, what a bunch of
geeks you guys are. You spend all your time ass-licking this Pratchet guy
like he's good or something. Come on, Craig Shaw Gardener wipes the floor
with Pratchet, and that ain't saying much. His books are boring and
repetative, he just recycles the same tired old jokes again and again.
Why waste your time with such a looser?

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RUSH are way, way kool!!!
From: brad@cs.utexas.edu (Brad Blumenthal)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Patrician's assassination, plus two ques
Date: 23 Jul 1992 15:10:47 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: thunderbird.cs.utexas.edu

tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>years -- and liaison over GO was hard enough when we lived 120 miles apart.

Ah, the difference between the UK and the US.  

In the UK, 100 miles is a long way.

In the US, 100 years is a long time.

Take care,
brad
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From: rm104449@ee.tut.fi (M{kinen Riku)
Subject: Re: New reader!  Which book should I read first?
Organization: Tampere University of Technology, FINLAND
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 13:41:29 GMT


In article <crystal.711731652@glia> crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:
...[DELETED]

>What is the first book in the disc world series?  Should they be read in 
>order?  What is the order?
...[deleted]

I think the first book to read is 'Color of magic' and then the sequel, 'The
light fantastic'. Two reasosns: they are the first-ones and they are GOOD 
(I liked Twoflower a lot...). You get a hang of the things better that way.

Question to Terry: is it a coincidence that in 'Wyrd sisters' Granny thinks
that one shouldn't give noble animals (like goats) names like 'Buttercup'.
I mean, in Robert Asprin's 'Myth' series there's a certain unicorn called
that name.

Riku Makinen (letter a with 2 dots, pronounced not entirely, but almost unlike
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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: DW Ideas                                
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 00:29:33 +0000

Why am I spending so much time doing this?  It must be because the first
draft of Johnny and the Dead is nearly finished.

I suppose, to be honest, I don't like people giving me ideas because
1) what the hell, they should be writing their own books and
2) ideas are 5% of the effort anyway and
3) I got lots.  What I need is TIME.  Now, if anyone would like to say, 'yo,
Terry, here's three months I wasn't doing anything with'...now, THAT I'd
like.
4) And I'm superstitious about it.  Don't ask me why.

   Terry
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From: mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox)
Subject: Where is this FAQ anyway?
Summary: LOST: FAQ list
Keywords: FAQ erm that's it
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 22:28:22 GMT

Can someone tell me who has/is compiling the FAQ list and where it is
available from?  I mean, people keep throwing suggestions for additions
onto the net but I for one have seen no indication on how one goes about obtaining a copy.  It DOES exist doesn't it?

Fox
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From: kcc@wucs1.wustl.edu (Ken Cox)
Subject: Patrician's assassination, plus two questions
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:02:49 GMT

In article <54765@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> nickles@sage.cc.purdue.edu (john a nickles) writes:
>Q: What's this I hear about the Patrician being assasinated?
>It's a clue Terry has dropped about his new novel. We don't know
>any more about it than you, really. Rank does have its priviliges.

Now, let's be careful, people.  Several posters have talked about the
Patrician being assassinated, and some have even used the word "killed".
But as I recall, TP's original post on this subject didn't actually say
he would _die_; the phrase was "the Patrician's assassination", which
is really a marvel of ambiguity.  Indeed, as one poster mentioned, my
first suspect would be the Patrician himself.  (I don't suppose there's
any chance Pteppic might make a cameo appearance?)

First question:  Rumor has it that a sequel to Good Omens, possibly
entitled "668: The Neighbor of the Beast", was contemplated.  Is such
a thing still in the works, and if so what is the status?

Second question:  In Good Omens, there is a telephone salesperson who
wanted to become an international jet-setter (or some such thing) but
her "O-levels" weren't high enough.  I've also read of "A-levels" in
a book by Tom Holt.  From the context, they seem to have something to
do with the British education system.  Would anyone care to enlighten
an American?

Ken Cox
kcc@wucs1.wustl.edu
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From: chrisc@debra.dgbt.doc.ca (Chris Camfield)
Subject: Re: You geeks
Organization: Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 13:42:59 GMT

In article <p2o4otUYGjkl@alcor.usc.edu> rone@skat.usc.edu (5150) writes:
>I've been looking through this group and I've gotta say, what a bunch of
>geeks you guys are. You spend all your time ass-licking this Pratchet guy
>like he's good or something. Come on, Craig Shaw Gardener wipes the floor
>with Pratchet, and that ain't saying much. His books are boring and
>repetative, he just recycles the same tired old jokes again and again.
>Why waste your time with such a looser?
>

Perhaps the real Ron could tell us who might have posted this note,
so that we can go send him flames... *growl*  IMO Gardener should
go back to gardening like his ancestors and leave the writing to
Mr. Pratchett...

A 'born again' DiscWorld fan =]
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From: garton@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Simon Garton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Upcoming Stuff
Date: 25 Jul 92 19:45:56 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1992Jul25.180548.7572@news.ysu.edu> ac463@yfn.ysu.edu (Rich Yauman) writes:
>     Speaking of Rincewind,  I keep waiting for his return from the
>dungeon Dimensions.  Afterall, as the book Sourcery states, a wizzard
>always comes back for his hat.
>-- 

Go read Eric if you haven't seen Rincewind recently : Or I
suddenly think I remember that Eric never made it to the US ...
oh .... see if you can make some friends in the UK ...

Ooops, Oh well.. if anyone stuck this side of the Atlantic wants
clues hints and spoilers,....... email me. 

Simon.
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From: Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy)
Subject: Re: DW setting and typoes
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:56:32 GMT

In article <4141@inca.comlab.ox.ac.uk> gordon@robots.oxford.ac.uk (Gordon Buxton) writes:
>In article <memo.544949@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>>Go on...tell me more about comic timing...
>>
>>Terry
>
>Oooooooooh, He flamed me, He flamed me ... <swoon>
>
>Gordon ;-)

Ooooo! You lucky man! I am like so totally jealous!
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From: johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis)
Subject: Re: Reepor Man                              
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:01:57 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA

In article <memo.536489@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>Graeme, if you've got them noted can you email me so of the more stupid ones?
>And I'll hit Roc with them.

I thought it was accepted practice to hit things with rocks, and not the
other way around?  Although I do seem to recall a flying rock being hit
with a wizzard and a tourist . .

Oh - you said Roc?  Never mind!
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From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Subject: Re: Terry Pratchett GIF on a.b.p.m
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:42:31 GMT

Talking of pictures...
I can't receive any pictures and the only one of TP I know is the one
inside Good Omens. But what I simply can't decide is: Who's who?
The description youngish middle-aged could fit to both, depending on
what's stronger (youngish or middle-aged). So is it the guy in white or
the guy in black. (I won't reveal personal hypotheses, because it would
be even more embarrassing if I were wrong than it is now.)

I'd just like to be sure about some things before I die.


May the Cool be with You All the More!

(C)OOL mcmxcii
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From: Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy)
Subject: Argh! (Was Re: Yawn.)
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:18:01 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.053031.761@jyu.fi> mol@jyu.fi (Mika O. Latokartano) writes:
>-----------------------------
>
>  And a couple of points about "Eric", which I'm about 3/4 through.

[spoilers DELETED!]


ARGH! *That* was an unforgivible spoiler for those of us who haven't
read the book yet!  And with no bloody warning!  I mean, yeah, so I
would have read it anyway, but at least I would have known what I was
getting myself into! Have a little heart, eh? 

I don't mind hearing about alligator jokes, but when something involves
an unresolved thread of *that* magnitude -- ?! Bast help me, but I hope
that was a base red herring fib!

Grrrrrrr....
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From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Subject: Re: Comic Books 
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 08:43:40 GMT

gribbish@milton.u.washington.edu (Toonatic) writes:

>I recently picked up issue one of "The Light Fantastic" from my local comics
>  retailer.

There's Pratchett Comics?!!!
Gotta have'm! Could You mail me publisher and ISBN, or whatever comics
have?


May the Cool be with You!

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From: Ann.Feeney@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Ann Feeney)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Upcoming Stuff
Date: 25 Jul 92 17:52:41 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <memo.536490@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>Just so's you know:
>
[Lots of stuff about lots of upcoming books deleted.]
>
>Terry

THANKS a LOT!  What, Mr. Pratchett, are you trying to do?
Eat my _entire_ paycheck?  Turn me into the Great Book Thief? ;-)

But seriously...keep them coming! 

Ann


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From: mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (mike blaser)
Subject: Re: Terry, don't read this, DW sug
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 02:37:04 GMT

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and dare I add

AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!

You CANNOT put that kind of <censored> into a <censored> discworld book. 
For god's sake, these aren't vehicles for a load of <censored> computer
geeks to rant about their latest add-ons to their pocket calculators. If 
people are going to put any ideas down at all then can they at least try 
and make them universally amusing instead of this sort of 'in joke'?

Fox, who's begining to regret starting this thread

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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: New Questions for the FAQ
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:08:01 +0000


You could add to the FAQ that Terry generally answers mail, eventually, but
can no longer be having with the blunt 'Hey, are you Terry Pratchett or
what?' messages.

Terry
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From: mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox)
Subject: Re: Erm. Excuse me?
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 21:52:28 GMT

gnort@daimi.aau.dk (Lars Balker Rasmussen) writes:

>>subsequent printings) which has "Terry Pratchet" [sic] emblazoned atop
>>every left-hand page...

>That IS just one typo! Be gentle!

Oh come on.  That's like saying that Germany only made ONE mistake
by invading Poland!

Fox
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From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Subject: Re: DW setting and typoes
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 12:02:40 GMT

gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington) writes:

>> No chapters in latest DW books

>It makes a brilliant excuse for
>mother/hubby/roommate, when they ask "turn off the light and go to
>sleep" you can say "when I finish the chapter" :-).

So I'm not the only one having experienced this phenomenon. (It's like
taking a piece of cake before cutting it.) But I'd really be interested
in why it is thus. Do ideas flow better when you don't divide your out-
put? Not that I particularly dislike it or anything. I just find it ra-
ther odd finding no table of contents in the beginning because all it
would contain were "Table of Contents.....5, Text..........7".


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From: chrisc@debra.dgbt.doc.ca (Chris Camfield)
Subject: Re: The U.S.A. is being let down
Organization: Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 13:39:15 GMT

In article <1992Jul26.055624.5411@news.ysu.edu> ac463@yfn.ysu.edu (Rich Yauman) writes:
>
>Yes we in the U.S.A. are being let down, being let down by publishers
>who don't bring Terry Pratchett's books over here.  Ok so Some books
>do get here, but what about this book ERIC that I just heard about
>because I mentioned Rincewind.  When I see a new Discworld book I buy

ERIC >is< available in Canada!  If you have had any thoughts in your mind
that Canada is just like the U.S., you can throw them all away now! *grin*
(Hm, maybe Terry Pratchett books will start reversing the cross-border
shopping flow!)
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From: a_copeab@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Minatures and Merchandise
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:42:21 CST
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

In article <14559@umd5.umd.edu>, mvw@anywhere.umd.edu (Martin V. Walser) writes:
> 
> Should this be moved to rec.games.frp.miniatures?   :)

	I doubt it. The miniatures aren't for a game since technically there
isn't a DW game :-)

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From: woerdeho@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Hendrik Woerdehoff)
Subject: Re: Erm. Excuse me?
Originator: woerdeho@hphalle9i.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 10:45:19 GMT


In article <1992Jul25.181118.7840@news.ysu.edu>, ac463@yfn.ysu.edu (Rich Yauman) writes:
|> Did you notice that the only DW character that knows how to spell, is 
|> the dead leader of the dead rights group in Reaper Man.  I wonder if
|> we will see this character again.
|>  
|> Rich Yauman ac463@yfn.ysu.edu 

Well, Carrot in Guards!Guards! is fairly good in spelling too. His letters home
only show some additional capital letters. And his reports are very well
formulated compared to the ones written by Captain Vimes.

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From: mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (mike blaser)
Subject: Re: Upcoming Stuff 
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 21:06:13 GMT

tdc1004@dircon.co.uk (Barry Freeman) writes:


>And when are we going to see the Wizards experimenting with 
>computers? eh? I mean, they have the High Energy Magic facility, 
>sure they need some form of computer to run it all? Does the 
>Librarian know about virus' (virii?) Do they have a debugger 
>for complex spells?

Wizards don't use computers.  Druids do remember (was it the Colour of Magic or
the Light Fantastic when Rincewind landed on a huge slab of sillicaceous
rock heading for a huge terminal?

Fox

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From: mueller@grmnntp.grump.com
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Minatures and Merchandise
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:55:56 -0400
Organization: Grumman Space & Electronics systems - Princeton

The manufacturer of the Phineous Phingers phigures _was_
Dark Horse Miniatures, now defunct. Among their other unique
efforts were the Groo the Wanderer figures and the Weird Fantasy
figures like "Ork Girls on Roller Skates" and "Skeletons on
Tricycles". 
I havn't used any of these against our players, but I pull them
out occasionally to guard the dice.

I second Julie Guthrie as DW sculptor.
Tom Meir would be way cool too. His tendancy to overdo ornament
would be perfect for members of the Unseen University faculty!

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From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Subject: Re: DW setting and typoes 
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:57:39 GMT

tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:

>Total different thing: you might also enjoy the latest edition of Bill and
>Ted's comic -- the one with Death working in the fast food joint, and the new
>Death called Morty...the ideas just FLOW, it's amazing....

Don't take this lightly. They just might sue you. I always do before
they do it to me.  :-)


May the Cool and Sleezy Shyster be with You!

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