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From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Patrician's assassination, plus two questions
Date: 23 Jul 92 15:15:01 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Jul23.122024.13169@vela.acs.oakland.edu> mwlucas@vela.acs.oakland.edu ( ) writes:
>This is the only newsgroup that I've been on since its creation that hasn't
>had a good, old-fashioned, all-out flamefest/rumorfest/backstabbing-growling-
>throwing-things-even-quite-heavy-furniture-fest.  You people are all too
>complacent and peaceful.  The rest of the Internet is going to get wind of
>this, and who knows where it'll wind up!  They might end up disbanding us
>as a threat to the network's violent integrity...

Amazing ain't it? When I saw TP had his own alt group, my first thoughts were
"great, now he's going to get hammered just like the others (aspirin, anthony,
etc.). I just guess we Discworld fans are a step up from those other miserable
dung-grubbing totally worthless shreds of human debris, huh?

P.S. Shouldn't that really be "Diskworld?"
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From: nlc@vulcan.xtel.co.uk (Neil Cook)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Terry Pratchett GIF on a.b.p.m
Date: 23 Jul 92 10:05:45 GMT
Organization: X-Tel Services Ltd.

Oh dear, I think I'm going to get into trouble for this.

A picture of Terry in a rustic setting... minus fedora!

He IS wearing all black though, so I'll forgive him.

The picture is 200 dpi, 16 grey levels.

It's from the inside cover of Wyrd Sisters.

My next post will be from hospital...

Nurse: (Cheery voice)
        "Well sir, how did you get those bones in the end of your fingers
	broken? They really are quite difficult to break you know!"


Neil (I could murder a curry!).

P.S. Speaking of murdering curries - don't ever get a takeaway from the Shama
Curry House in Beeston, Nottingham. I had one last night and it was HORRIBLE!
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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: Tue, 28 Jul 92 02:24:53 GMT

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

>It's about war (the Gulf War is going on in 'real time' in the book) and
>games and our whole strange attitude to both of them.

You mean war isn't a game?  Wow, better not tell them thar generals about it. 
They might sulk!

Fox
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From: pdcawley@cix.compulink.co.uk (Piers Cawley)
Subject: Re: DW setting and typoes
Reply-To: pdcawley@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 07:09:00 +0000


TITLE: Re: DW setting and typoes

> In article <4132@inca.comlab.ox.ac.uk> gordon@robots.oxford.ac.uk
> Do the humour possibilities of this stage interest you then? A
> specific example is the part in Reaper Man when Death talks to Azrael.
> I found it a bit off putting to read the conversation on the left hand
> page, with this *HUGE* 'YES.' staring out from the page opposite,
> destroying the comic tension (IMHO).  The surprise (and therefore
> humour) element could have been immeasurably improved by arranging the
> page breaks so that the 'YES.' came at the top of a left hand page,
> ie. it's *supposed* to be the first thing you read, rather than the
> first thing you *actually* read.

  Well, in the UK hardback edition the YES does come on a left hand
  page. Then again, you could still see the that there was a massive
  YES, but you had to be looking carefully.


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From: dcnnnghm@unix1.tcd.ie (Donal Cunningham)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Reaperman YES,Finland,really dumb offer.
Date: 30 Jul 92 08:42:31 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

1). The YES is one of the reasons why I'm getting two friends to club together and get it in hardback instead of two (different!) paperbacks for my birthday.

2). People in Finland and other far flung places wot ain't got no UK DW covers,
as I said before, if you have trouble with the addresses that Terry posted,
which I doubt, give me a bell. I will check the postage and mail you back.
Mind you, this is all subject to availability, but that isn't really a big probelm in Ireland.

		Donal.
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From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
Subject: New reader!  Which book should I read first?
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:14:12 GMT

Hi!

I've had several people over the last few months mention that they thought
I'd like this author.  But when I ask which one to start with, no one can 
tell me!

What is the first book in the disc world series?  Should they be read in 
order?  What is the order?

I just got this news group...

Thanks!! 

Crystal
  ;>

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From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: Re: Reading matter..                        
In-reply-to: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk's message of Sat, 18 Jul 1992 10:25:46 +0000
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 92 22:28:11 EDT

In article <memo.530162@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:

>When the World Fantasy Con was in Tucson I hired a pickup and drove down to
>Benson, Arizona, purely because of 'Dark Star' (the ladies in Benson's town
>museum had never heard of the film, or the song).

Ooh! Jealosy. I've wanted to make a pilgrimage to Benson for YEARS
now. That and Hoople, North Dakota.

A few years back I did fulfill a goal of visiting the corner of Pico
and Alvarado in LA.

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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: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 07:17:32 GMT

gordon@robots.oxford.ac.uk (Gordon Buxton) writes:

>Oooooooooh, He flamed me, He flamed me ... <swoon>

Mail me if you want to join our support group.


May the Cool be with You!

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From: lis@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Elisabeth Riba)
Subject: Cat Book?
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 02:06:17 GMT

I had heard of a cat humor book written by Terry Pratchett.  Does
anyone have the title, and is this book available in the US?

Thanks!
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From: graeme@transquest.oe.fau.edu (Graeme Rae)
Subject: Reepor Man
Reply-To: rae@sol.cse.fau.edu
Organization: Advanced Marine Systems Group 
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 14:02:36 GMT


Welll, I wasnt going to do this cos I thought bugging old Tel would
be a bit naff, but.... Terry, I dont know if you are aware, but the US
edition of Reaper Man (which I finally tracked down yesterday) is 
riddled with typos, spelling mistakes etc. After I got through about 
a hundred pages or so, it became so noticable that I started noting
them down, and found three in the next 40 pages. 

I think its time the publishers learnt who they're messing with here,
TP and his army of computer nerds, people to whom a spell check isnt
just an 'additional feature'* but a way of life. 


If its any use here's the details :
First Roc Printing, July 1992
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 (what are these numbers for anyway!??)

And I bought it in Florida.



*Of course this doesnt apply to IBM owners

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From: lpj@col.hp.com (Laura Johnson)
Subject: Re: O-levels and A-levels (Re: Patrician's assassination, plus two questions)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:14:17 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
> 
> The O-levels and A-levels are achievement examinations.  Kind of like the
> College Board Achievement Tests in the U.S., except given in a lot more
> subjects and not used just for college admission.
> 
> --PSW

I've gotten (somewhere) the impression that O=Ordinary and A=Advanced,
thus making A-levels the more difficult...is this right?

-Laura
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From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
Subject: Erm. Excuse me?
Distribution: world
Organization: Indexed; Access: Random.
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 18:13:23 +0000

In article <1992Jul24.040754.11178@news.columbia.edu> jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu writes:

>           first printing of MOVING PICTURES (don't know about
>subsequent printings) which has "Terry Pratchet" [sic] emblazoned atop
>every left-hand page...

Roc (who they?) must obviously have the machine-readable format too,
because they use 8 character names ...

Nick Leverton
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From: gip10@sci.kun.nl (gip cursus)
Subject: Remarks
Summary: odds 'n ends
Keywords: discworld terry pratchett
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 11:11:31 GMT

Hello again(oh no! not him again!)

First, thanks for the extensiv reply. I think that now it is possible to get some normal distribution around here(Thats holland for you folks!).
I heard from Some Guys Who Should Know that Citadel is a good manufacturer for the small models.
Does anybody know if the illustrated version of Eric is still available? I havn't seen in here. If so, let me know.
I also heard some rumours about a Discworld Almanack, could anyone comment on that?
I would like to know because there is going to be an rpg convention at Nijmegen(holland) this autumm, where(if nothing goes wrong) an DW rpg example session will be held. The system that is going to be showed is still under costruction, and where still looking for similar rpg's to put our system to test.

A crazy(and still slightly mad) DM.

(No remarks here!)

THE END.    

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From: mol@jyu.fi (Mika O. Latokartano)
Subject: Re: You geeks
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:58:53 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


  One little twitch in the DNA and something like this guy turns up.
  Evolution is full of surprises.

>
>-- 
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	- Mika



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From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: Re: Yawn.
Reply-To: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 08:20:18 GMT

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

>    Maybe I'll do one of "Eric" instead, for our American friends...
> 
> Yup - I think some enlightened criticism and informed debate is called
> for: "Pbbbbbbt!!  Look what we've got.  Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah!"

You got it. This has been said before, but what the heck: Some devious
part of me *so* enjoys the plaintive squeals of our American fellow fans -- 

"We get discworld novels one year later!" 
"The artwork sucks!"
"It's full of typo's!" 
"Nobody's gonna release 'Eric'!"  

Oh, I love it.

It should do them good to finally experience a bit of what e.g. Europeans
(especially those in non-english speaking countries, ahem!) have to go through
*all the time* for almost every bloody book, movie, or tv series.

> Classic.  Hmm, would it be okay with Terry if we collected together
> the best gags and quoted and explained them?  That way we avoid things
> like "that witty bit on p196 where Brutha points out that the lion den
> has steps on it" and other circumlocutory prolix.

Where possible we should try for explicit quotes, preferably with page 
numbers, but I think for some of the running gags or more complex
references you're gonna have to be a bit more descriptive, e.g. you
can hardly quote the entire Tolkien spoofing section of "Witches Abroad"
verbatim, even though I am sure people unfamiliar with Tolkien are
going to find sentences like 

    "'ullo," it said. "It'sss my birthday.",

and the witches' subsequent comments ("Looked like a troublemaker to me")
extremely puzzling and (what's worse) unfunny. Dwarf bread is funny in
its own right, even if you're not aware of lembas. But obscure Gollum
references?

> Exactly.  I think the FAQ is in danger of becoming too large - it should
> be informational, but not exhaustive.

Ok, lets make it official. The Annotated Pratchett Project is now in 
full swing. I'll post a first version, incorporating the current FAQ
stuff and everything else, sometime next week. To repeat the Call
For Participation:

> If there is any in-joke in a Terry Pratchett book that you feel people 
> might easily "not get" because they are not familiar with the subject 
> matter it refers to, mail an explanation to me at
> 
>        leo @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl
> 
> And I will collect and post the results back to the net. 
-- 
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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: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 08:07:46 GMT

gordon@robots.oxford.ac.uk (Gordon Buxton) writes:

>Do the humour possibilities of this stage interest you then? A
>specific example is the part in Reaper Man when Death talks to Azrael.
>I found it a bit off putting to read the conversation on the left hand
>page, with this *HUGE* 'YES.' staring out from the page opposite,
>destroying the comic tension (IMHO).  The surprise (and therefore
>humour) element could have been immeasurably improved by arranging the
>page breaks so that the 'YES.' came at the top of a left hand page,
>ie. it's *supposed* to be the first thing you read, rather than the
>first thing you *actually* read.

I guess it wouldn't have been of much use, though. The 'YES.' would have
shone through and even if you wouldn't have been able to read it you'd
have turned the page out of sheer curiosity. I would.


Apathy Cooled the Cat!

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: mol@jyu.fi (Mika O. Latokartano)
Subject: Re: Argh! (Was Re: Yawn.)
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 04:54:34 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.151801.2427@samba.oit.unc.edu> Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy) writes:
>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 guess this can be spoiler material, so...


  Yes, I do.
  Er.  I'm not absolutely certain which part of my comment actually
  spoiled anything.  The bit about Eric summoning Rincewind was already
  mentioned on the back of the book.  Was the part about the King of Demon
  then _the_ spoiler?  I'm not trying to be arrogant here, I'm terribly sorry
  if my article spoiled your fun, it definately wasn't my intention.
  I just don't feel I was giving away really anything.  Maybe I should
  have dropped the King bit, but other than that..?

>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!

  Like I said, I am really sorry.  I'm usually very careful about these
  spoiler-thingys.  I can't totally figure this one out.

>
>Grrrrrrr....

  Sorry :(

	- Mika
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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Upcoming Stuff 
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 12:47:57 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.185253.20158@dircon.co.uk> tdc1004@dircon.co.uk (Barry Freeman) writes:
>And when are we going to see the Wizards experimenting with 
>computers? eh?

Well, there's those druid computer technicians busily flying rocks up to
those big stone circles on the plains.
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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Re: Erm. Excuse me?
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:07:37 +0000

>In article <memo.536485@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
>writes:
>Well, to prove I wasn't mad I just ran a word check on the entire DW files
>and I'M pretty sure the whole tiger/eternal flame sequence turns up only in
>Sourcery.  There was a dungeon scene in WS, yes, but with a whole range of
>fresh (well, more or less fresh) dungeon gags.
>
>Oh dear - you *really* shouldn't have posted this message.  You've just
>announced to the world that you have the DW books in machine-readable form.
>You're going to be inundated with requests for copies.
>Johnf@apollo.hp.com

Oh, lawdy lawdy.  OF COURSE I have the DW books in machine readable form.
Think about it for a moment, will you?


Terry
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From: mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox)
Subject: Re: You geeks
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 03:04:37 GMT

uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann) writes:

>bradfiel@phakt.usc.edu (The B-field) writes:

>>Well, he's had his say so let's just ignore him and keep up the IQ level
>>of the Internet.

>Yeah, let's not post any follow-ups to it.


>May the Cool be with You!

>(C)OOL mcmxcii

Follow-ups to what? *8)

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From: daniel@csunb0.dcs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow)
Subject: Re: Armageddon the Musical
Organization: School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds
Distribution: scs
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 13:36:29 GMT
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In article <1992Jul28.110853.9780@cs.nott.ac.uk>, nlc@vulcan.xtel.co.uk (Neil Cook) writes:
> Well, I've nearly finished reading the aformentioned book, good fun,
> I would recommend it.
> 
> However, I wanted to comment on the cover, which has quotes from Terry
> on the front and back, talking about Robert Rankin like he was the next best
> thing since sliced bread. Come on Terry, why the effusive praise? Do you
> love him that much, or was it a deal with Corgi to get the back of the book
> filled with trailers for DW books? ;)
> 
> Also, Robert Rankin's style reminds of someone else, and I couldn't quite
> remember until a minute ago... In the book (ATM), Rankin goes on about the
> Fundamentalists merging with the L Ron Hubbard church. Well, I think the
> Scientologists are extremely dodgy etc, but I have read a couple of the "Mission
> Earth" books in an idle day at the library, and they are the books that I was
> reminded of whilst reading ATM. Wyrd...
> 
> Neil Cook.

Hmmm... haven't read any L. Ron (what a guy) so i don't know about the
similarity, but I have to agree with Neil's comments about the TP
quotations on the cover of ATM. I thought it (Armageddon) was okay but
rather derivative (much in the way that Douglas Adams' work is derivative
of Robert Sheckley) and stale. Terry's books are more (IMHO) imaginative
and vibrant than Rankin's, I thought the quotation over played the
book (I wouldn't have read it without the TP recomendation).

-- 
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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Dropping in...                          
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:15:42 +0000

I don't know, I get on with things for a few days and all kinds of stuff
happens...

Apologies if I've missed some questions, but there's about sixty messages
here:

Robert Rankin: well, I only praise authors I like, such as Robert Rankin this
time and, more recently, Caitlin Moran.  Honest.  There aren't any deals.
Maybe Armageddon: The Musical wasn't as good as the Brentford Trilogy, which
was superb, but he's an author to watch for.

Azrael: oh dear.  He's the Angel of Death, guys.  Islamic legend has a lot to
say about him -- the description in Reaper Man is fairly mild by comparison.
He's the last creature to die.  According to a source I'm trying to check,
he's also in huge chains, in case he kills the universe.  But he knows how to
kick back and party...

The Fresh Start Club for the Recently Undead will, I think, be coming back in
the next DW book I write.  And probably even Gaspode.



Terry
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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: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 11:10:17 GMT

mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (mike blaser) writes:

>I know what you mean about the *** Y E S *** being off putting.  When I turned
>over the previous page in question I was almost blasted off my chair by the 
>force of the 24 point *8)

You were? I see, and now I also know what "Sun"-readers find so refesh-
ing about their literature.


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