Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE (April 28, 1948 – March 12, 2015), better known as ***Terry Pratchett***, was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, after which he wrote two books a year on average.

Pratchett, with more than 85 million books sold worldwide in 37 languages, was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998 and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours.

In December 2007, Pratchett announced that he had been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. He later made a substantial public donation to the Alzheimer's Research Trust (now Alzheimer's Research UK), filmed a television programme chronicling his experiences with the disease for the BBC, and also became a patron for Alzheimer's Research UK.

### Discworld

Discworld is a planet-sized flat disc carried through space on the backs of four huge elephants – Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon and Jerakeen – who themselves stand on the shell of Great A'Tuin, a gigantic sea turtle. The surface of the disc contains oceans and continents, and with them, civilisations, cities, forests and mountains.

#### November 24, 1983: The Colour of Magic

* Rincewind

***The Colour of Magic*** is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, and is the first book of the Discworld series. The first printing of the British edition consisted of 506 copies. Pratchett has described it as "an attempt to do for the classical fantasy universe what Blazing Saddles did for Westerns."

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 ... wiki.lspace.org

#### 1989: Guards! Guards!

* City Watch

1990: Eric

* Rincewind

#### 1992: "Troll Bridge"

* A short story published in After the King: Stories in Honour of J R R Tolkien (1992)
* Features Cohen the Barbarian

#### 1993: "Theatre of Cruelty"

* City Watch
* Originally written for W H Smith Bookcase magazine and then slightly modified and extended for the OryCon 15 convention programme (November, 1993)
* Included in The Wizards of Odd (1996) compilation of humorous short science fiction/fantasy stories.

#### November 4, 1993: Mapps - The Streets of Ankh-Morpork

* Brief guide and map of the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork.

#### November 9, 1995: Mapps - The Discworld Mapp

Large, fold out map of the Discworld fictional world, drawn by Stephen Player to the directions of Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs. It also contains a short booklet relating the adventures and explorers of the Disc and their discoveries.

#### 1998: "The Sea and Little Fishes"

* Witches
* Published in Legends (published August 25, 1998) an anthology of stories from fantasy authors

#### 1998: Mapps - A Tourist Guide to Lancre

Shows the mountain country of Lancre, with the Ramtops drawn in a vertigo-inducing perspective shot, rather than as a relief diagram. The accompanying booklet details the history, geography and folklore of the country, with contributions from both Gytha Ogg (anticipating the style of Nanny Ogg's Cookbook) and Eric Wheelbrace, the Discworld's most famous hillwalker (a parody of Alfred Wainwright).

#### 1999: Mapps - Death's Domain

Shows the parasite universe of Death's Domain. The accompanying booklet provides various details of the Domain.