Last-revised: 9/9/08 (9/9/08 for merkins) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TERRY PRATCHETT BIBLIOGRAPHY part one The Discworld Novels ----------------------------------------------------------------------- bibliography of the british author, Terry Pratchett, OBE. in part one are listed uk & merkin editions of his books which have been published for open sale (i.e. it excludes editions available only to book club members). blurbs to the first uk (& commonwealth) hardcover & paperback editions of each are given, by way of introduction. in #2 are listed his non-Discworld novels, also information on his shorter fiction, and on books and maps of associational interest; and in #3, info[rmation] on "forn language" editions, where this is known to me. this [?non-]FAQ is autoposted lunar monthly, mostly on saturdays to: alt.books.pratchett contributions, corrections, comments and changes should be directed to: ppint. 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The Discworld Series note on uk & merkin discworld novel editions' cover artists 1.1 The Colour of Magic 1.2 The Light Fantastic 1.3 Equal Rites 1.4 Mort 1.5 Sourcery 1.6 Wyrd Sisters 1.7 Pyramids 1.8 Guards! Guards! 1.9 Eric [illustrated by Josh Kirby (save in a-format & mm p/bs)] 1.9a Eric [text-only (a-format & mm p/bs)] 1.10 Moving Pictures 1.11 Reaper Man 1.12 Witches Abroad 1.13 Small Gods 1.14 Lords and Ladies 1.15 Men At Arms 1.16 Soul Music 1.17 The Witches Trilogy (Omnibus of 1.3, 1.6 & 1.12) 1.18 Interesting Times 1.19 Maskerade 1.20 Feet of Clay 1.21 Hogfather 1.22 Jingo 1.23 The Last Continent 1.24 Death Trilogy (Omnibus of 1.4, 1.11 & 1.16) 1.25 Carpe Jugulum 1.26 The Colour of Magic: The Light Fantastic: The First Discworld Novels [Omnibus of 1.1 & 1.2] 1.27 The Fifth Elephant 1.28 City Watch Trilogy (Omnibus of 1.8, 1.15 & 1.20) 1.29 Gods Trilogy (Omnibus of 1.7, 1.13 & 1.21) 1.30 The Truth 1.31 Thief of Time 1.32 The Rincewind Trilogy (Omnibus of 1.5, 1.9 & 1.18) 1.33 The Last Hero [illustrated by paul Kidby] 1.34 The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents 1.35 The Nightwatch 1.36 The Wee Free Men 1.36a The Illustrated Wee Free Men [h/cvr 1/11/07 scheduled] 1.37 Monstrous Regiment 1.38 A Hat Full of Sky 1.39 Going Postal 1.40 Thud! 1.41 Where's My Cow? (children's & adults' picture book) 1.42 Wintersmith 1.43 Making Money [uk p/b on sale by 15/7/08][merkin p/b due 10/08] 7.17, 7.30 & 7.39, The Science of Discworld, The Science of Discworld II: the Globe & The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch, are also Rincewind, the Luggage and the Wizards of Unseen University stories, roughly one-third fiction and two-thirds non-fiction. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ in part 2 of the bibliography, q.v: 2. Non-Series Novels & Collection 2.1 The Carpet People (1st Edition) 2.2 The Carpet People (2nd Edition) 2.3 The Dark Side of the Sun 2.4 Strata 2.5 Once More* *with footnotes 2.6 Nation [uk h/cvr & yp/b on-sale 4/9/08][merkin hardcover scheduled 10/08] 3. The Nomes Series (The Bromeliad) 3.1 Truckers 3.2 Diggers 3.3 Wings 3.4 The Bromeliad (omnibus of 3.1, .2 & .3) 4. The Johnny Maxwell Series 4.1 Only You Can Save Mankind 4.2 Johnny and the Dead 4.3 Johnny and the Bomb 4.4 The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (omnibus of 4.1, .2 & .3) 5. Collaborations 5.1 Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman) 5.2 The Unadulterated Cat (with Gray Joliffe) 6. Miscellany 6.1 Short Stories [their original publication, and subsequent reprints]. 6.2 Truckers [Picture Book based on the Cosgrove Hall animated cartoon] 6.3 Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic - The Graphic Novel 6.4 Terry Pratchett's The Light Fantastic [graphic novel] 6.5 Mort: A Discworld Big Comic [graphic novel] 6.6 Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters - The Play 6.7 Terry Pratchett's Mort - The Play 6.8 Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards! - The Play 6.9 Terry Pratchett's Men at Arms - The Play 6.10 Soul Music: The Illustrated Screenplay 6.11 GURPS Discworld [fantasy role-playing game/sourcebook] 6.11a Discworld Role-Playing game [retitling of 6.11] 6.12 Wyrd Sisters: The Illustrated Screenplay 6.13 Terry Pratchett's Maskerade - The Play 6.14 Terry Pratchett's Carpe Jugulum - The Play 6.15 Guards! Guards! [graphic novel] 6.16 GURPS Discworld Also [fantasy role-playing game sourcebook] 6.17 Terry Pratchett's Lords & Ladies - The Play 6.18 Interesting Times - Stage Adaptation 6.19 The Fifth Elephant - Stage Adaptation 6.20 The Truth - Stage Adaptation 6.21 Terry Pratchett's The Amazing Maurice - The Play 6.22 Terry Pratchett's Hogfather: The Illustrated Screenplay 6.23 Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic: The Illustrated Screenplay [h/cvr 3/08 sched.] 6.24 The Discworld Graphic Novels [omnibus of 6.3 & 6.4] [h/cvr 6/08] 7. Discworld "Non-Fiction" & Art Books 7.1 The Fantasy Art of Josh Kirby (Josh Kirby) [art book] 7.2 In The Gardens of Unearthly Delights (Josh Kirby) [art book] 7.3 The Josh Kirby Portfolio (Josh Kirby) [art book] 7.3a The Josh Kirby Portfolio (Josh Kirby) [art book] 7.4 The Streets of Ankh Morpork (Stephen Briggs, with Terry) [map] 7.5 The Discworld Companion (Stephen Briggs, with Terry) [encyclopedia] 7.5u The Discworld Companion updated edition (Stephen Briggs, with Terry) 7.6 The Discworld Mapp (Stephen Briggs, with Terry) [map] 7.7 Terry Pratchett's Discworld - The Official Strategy Guide (Glenn Edridge) [computer game guidebook] 7.7a Unseen University Challenge (David Langford) [quizbook] 7.9 The Pratchett Portfolio (Paul Kidby + Terry) [art book] 7.10 Terry Pratchett's Discworld II - Missing Presumed...!? The Official Strategy Guide (Paul Kidd) [computer game guidebook] 7.11 Discworld Unseen University Diary 1998 (CMOT Briggs, Terry & Paul Kidby) 7.12 A Tourist Guide to Lancre [tourist's and walker's guide, plus map] 7.13 Terry Pratchett Discworld Collector's Edition 1999 Calendar 7.14 Discworld's Ankh-Morpork City Watch Diary 1999 7.15 Terry Pratchett Discworld Collector's Edition 1999 Day-to-Day Calendar 7.16 Death's Domain [the fourth discworld map] 7.17 The Science of Discworld [mixed discworld fiction & non-fiction; Rincewind (and the wizards of the unseen university, vicariously) explore "Roundworld": and why Roundworld isn't as satisfyingly right as is the Discworld. 7.18 Discworld's Assassins' Guild Diary 2000 7.19 The Terry Pratchett 2000 DISCWORLD Collector's Edition Calendar 7.20 The Terry Pratchett's 2000 DISCWORLD Collector's Edition [Mini] Calendar (small format reissue of 7a.13) 7.21 Terry Pratchett's DISCWORLD Collector's Edition 2000 Day-to-Day Calendar 7.22 Nanny Ogg's Cookbook 7.23 A Cosmic Cornucopia (Josh Kirby) [art book] 7.24 Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature [criticism (essays)] 7.25 Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collector's Edition 2001 Calendar 7.26 Discworld Fools' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2001 7.27 Terry Pratchett: Pocket Essential Guide 7.28 Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collector's Edition 2002 Calendar 7.29 Discworld Thieves' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2002 7.30 The Science of Discworld II: The Globe 7.31 The Wyrdest Link (David Langford) [quizbook] 7.32 Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collector's Edition 2003 Calendar 7.33 Discworld (Reformed) Vampyres' Diary 2003 7.34 The New Discworld Companion 7.35 Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collector's Edition 2004 Calendar 7.36 Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collector's Edition 2005 Calendar 7.37 The Art of the Discworld (Paul Kidby, artwork & Terry, words) 7.38 The Celebrated Discworld Almanac for the Common Year 2005 7.39 The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch 7.40 Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collector's Edition 2006 Calendar 7.41 Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook Discworld Diary 2007 7.42 So you think you know "Discworld" (childrens quiz book) 7.43 The Unseen University Cut-Out Book 7.44 Terry Pratchett's Hogfather Discworld Calendar 2007 7.45 Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collector's Edition 2008 Calendar 7.46 Lu-Tse's Yearbook of Enlightenment & Diary 2008 7.47 The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld [merkin p/b edition scheduled 10/08] 7.48 Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collector's Edition 2009 Calendar [title and date guesstimated 8/08] 7.49 The Folklore of Discworld ------------------------------------------------------------------------ in part 3 of the bibliography, q.v: 7a. Translations 7a.1 Brazilian 7a.2 Croatian 7a.3 Czech 7a.4 Danish 7a.5 Dutch 7a.6 Finnish 7a.7 Estonian 7a.7a French 7a.9 German 7a.10 Greek 7a.11 Israeli 7a.12 Italian 7a.13 Norwegian 7a.14 Polish 7a.15 Romanian 7a.16 Russian 7a.17 Spanish 7a.18 Swedish 7a.19 Turkish 7a.20 Welsh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ in all three parts of the bibliography: 9. Notes on publishers & ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers), and on book formats 9.1 Note on uk publishers & ISBNs 9.2 Note on merkin publishers & ISBNs. 9.3 Note on non-english language editions' publishers & ISBNs. [snipped] 9.4 Note on book formats. ---------------------------------------- The blurbs given here are to UK & Commonwealth editions. Note on Publishers, ISBNs, and book formats at end of this bibliography; but briefly, "p/b" indicates a uk paperback, "mmp/b" a merkin (us) mass market paperback edition, whilst "h/cvr" signifies a hardcover edition; "nyk" = not yet known. %A = author %T = title %I = imprint %D = date of publication ---------------------------------------- 1. The Discworld Series Note on discworld novels' cover artists. Josh Kirby is the single artist most popularly associated with Terry's books, though he was not in fact the first artist to produce cover art for his work - Terry himself did that - nor even that of the very first Discworld novel, _The Colour of Magic_; but he was Transworld's choice for cover artist for the first p/b of this, and graced (or disgraced ) the covers of the uk editions of the Discworld books thence, until his death - with one exception: Transworld tested a "serious" cover by Stephen Player on a printing of The Colour of Magic in an apparent attempt to broaden the sales appeal to encompass sad people hitherto put off what some have described as literature, by visibly non-serious cover art. the attempt was not entirely successful, and was not repeated - or even reprinted. Since Josh Kirby's death, the main cover artist for the Discworld series has been Paul Kidby - and "properly sad^W serious" monochrome covers betokening a serious literary author've appeared upon the "b format" paperback reissues by Transworld, now subsumed into the Random House UK operation. most of the (merkin) mmp/bs from [New American Library, now Penguin] Signet/Roc have featured cover artwork by Darrell K. Sweet that most, but not all, who have compared with Josh Kirby's, concur to be less in sympathy with the feel of the Discworld (though by no means necessarily less strictly true to descriptions of the characters in Terry's text), though the Signet/Roc mmp/bs of The Colour of Magic The Light Fantastic, Equal Rights and Mort first used Josh Kirby's artwork. later merkin h/cvr editions published by HarperCollins have altogether more "serious" cover art: designs deemed symbolic of the novels, rather than illustrative of them, by Michael Sabanosh, & Carl D. Galian. [HarperTorch's art policy's nyk by me, if indeed it be separable. - pp.] ---------------------------------------- 1.1 The Colour of Magic %A Terry Pratchett %T The Colour of Magic %I Colin Smythe (h/cvr) (cover art: Alan Smith) %D 11/83 ISBN 0-86140-089-5 [this edition now out of print] %I St. Martin's (merkin h/cvr) (cvr art: Alan Smith) %D [?11/83] ISBN 0-312-15084-9 %I Corgi (p/b) (cover art: Josh Kirby) %D 1985 [reprinted 14 times; re-set 1993/4 and many reprints since; but see also immediately below:] ISBN 0-552-12475-3 %I Corgi (p/b) (cover art: Stephen Player) %D 1993 ISBN 0-552-13893-2 [this "serious" cover was not a success, and neither was it reprinted, nor the exercise repeated elsewhere.] %I Colin Smythe (h/cvr) (+ intro by Terry; cover art: Josh Kirby) %D 1989 ISBN 0-86140-324-X %I Signet (mmp/b) %D /87 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-451-15705-2 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 1993 ISBN 0-552-14017-1 %I ROC (mmp/b) %D nyk [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-451-45112-0 %I Isis (six-cassette audio/b) %D 1995 ISBN 1-85695-800-0 %I Victor Gollancz (miniature h/cvr) %D 1995 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-575-06165-0 there is also a large-print h/cvr edn: %I Isis %D nyk ISBN nyk %I HarperPrism [retitled "The Color of Magic"] cover: ben perrini %D 3/00 ISBN 0-06-102071-0 [later (11/00 well before 19th printing)] %I HarperTorch same ISBN %I Doubleday (h/cvr) (cover design: nyk) %D 1/9/04 ISBN 0-385-60864-0 [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] %I Corgi (p/b) %D 1/4/05 ISBN 0-552-15292-7 [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b; abr.) %D 8/10/04 ISBN 0-552-15222-6 (with "serious" cover art) %I HarperTorch (p/b) %D 7/05 [scheduled] [re-re-titled "The Colour of Magic"] (trade p/b) ISBN 0-06-......-. %I HarperCollins Perennial [re-re-titled "The Colour of Magic"] (trade p/b) %D 9/05 [scheduled] ISBN 0-06-......-. %I Hill House (h/cvr) (cover art: Alan Smith; cvr art: Josh Kirby [two dust-jackets]) %D 3/06 ISBN nyk [this is a facsimile of the Colin Smythe first edition plus a reprint edition's Josh Kirby d-j] 1st edition h/cvr blurb (thanks to colin smythe for the d-j :-) ): Terry Pratchett has invented a phantasmagorical universe in which a blissfully naive interplanetary tourist called Two- flower joins up with a drop-out wizard whose spells only seem to work half of the time. Together they undertake a chaotic voyage through a crazy world filled with monsters and dragons, heroes and knaves. Pratchett has taken the sword and sorcery fantasy tradition and turned it in its ear to create an enter- taining and bizarre spoof. h/cvr blurb (of the 1995 printing): Since the publication of _The Colour of Magic_ in 1983, Terry Pratchett's Discworld series (described by the _Guardian_ as `a sequence of unalloyed delight') now has seventeen bestsell- ing titles currently in print, every one of which has received rapturous reviews. As the American _Publisher's Weekly_ wrote, in this first volume of the series Rincewind, an inept wizard, takes on the job of `shepherding a naive actuary, Two- flower, his world's first tourist, through a series of increasingly hazardous and outrageous adventures. Assisting Rincewind's rather inconsistent powers in protecting Twoflow- er is the Luggage, a sentient trunk that follows him through all manner of adversity on its hundreds of little legs. Heroic barbarians, chthonic monsters, beautiful princesses and fiery dragons; they're all here, but none of them is doing business as usual.' p/b blurb: Jerome K. Jerome meets _Lord of the Rings_ (with a touch of _Peter Pan_)...[this first part omitted from the 1994 re-set p/b edition's blurb] 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_. ---------------------------------------- 1.2 The Light Fantastic %A Terry Pratchett %T The Light Fantastic %I Colin Smythe (h/cvr) [distr. in merkia & canadada by Dufour Editions] %D 6/86 ISBN 0-86140-203-0 %I Corgi (p/b) %D 9/86 [re-set 1994] ISBN 0-552-12848-1 %I Signet (mmp/b) %D 3/88 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-451-15297-2 [ISBN & date of 2nd new american library/penguin printing nyk] %I Roc (mmp/b) (3rd new american library/penguin printing) %D nyk (late '89- 90) [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-451-16241-2 [AE6241 $4.99] %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 1993 ISBN 0-552-14018-X %I Isis (six-cassette audio/b) %D 1995 ISBN 1-85695-831-0 %I Victor Gollancz (miniature h/cvr) %D 1995 ISBN 0-575-06164-2 %I Roc (mmp/b) (4th new american library/penguin printing) %D 6/98 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-451-16241-2 there is also a large-print h/cvr edn: %I Isis %D nyk ISBN nyk %I HarperPrism (merkin mmp/b) cover ben perrini %D 3/00 ISBN 0-06-102070-2 [later (4/01 well before 13th printing)] %I HarperTorch same ISBN %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 1/9/04 ISBN 0-552-15259-5 [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b; abr.) %D 8/10/04 ISBN 0-552-15223-4 (with "serious" cover art) %I HarperCollins Perennial (trade p/b) %D 9/05 [scheduled] ISBN 0-06-......-. h/cvr blurb: In _The Colour of Magic_, the singularly inept and cowardly wiz- ard Rincewind, Twoflower, the Discworld's first tourist, and his remarkable Luggage, were last seen falling off its edge, with no help in sight. In this sequel, the Discworld is moving towards a seemingly in- evitable collision with a malevolent red star, and it has only one possible saviour. Unfortunately this happens to be Rincewind . . . p/b blurb: As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a mal- evolent red star, the Discworld has only one possible saviour. Unfortunately, this happens to be the singularly inept and coward -ly 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. ---------------------------------------- 1.3 Equal Rites %A Terry Pratchett %T Equal Rites %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) "in association with Colin Smythe" %D 1/87 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-575-03950-7 %I Corgi (p/b) %D 1987 [re-set 1994] ISBN 0-552-13105-9 %I Signet (mmp/b) [this edition now out of print] %D 9/88 ISBN 0-451-15704-4 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 1993 ISBN 0-552-14016-3 %I Isis [large-print h/cvr edn] %D c.1994 ISBN 1-85695-387-4 %I Roc (mmp/b) [this edition now out of print] %D nyk ISBN 0-451-45092-2 %I Isis (six-cassette audio/b) %D 1995 ISBN 1-85695-828-0 %I Victor Gollancz (miniature h/cvr) %D 1995 ISBN 0-575-06166-9 %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) [larger format - letterbox design d.j.] %D 11/96 ISBN 0-575-06410-2 %I Roc (mmp/b) [this edition now out of print] %D 4/98 ISBN 0-451-.....-. nyk %I HarperPrism (merkin mmp/b) %D 3/00 ISBN 0-06-102069-9 %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 1/9/04 ISBN 0-552-15260-9 [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b; abr.) %D 8/10/04 ISBN 0-552-15224-2 (with "serious" cover art) %I HarperCollins Perennial (trade p/b) %D 9/05 [scheduled] ISBN 0-06-......-. h/cvr blurb: Plodding through the eternal void is the great turtle A'Tuin. On his back (or hers - the question is unresolved) stand four eleph- ants. And supported on the elephants' shoulders is. . . Discworld, planet of magic and misadventure! Predicting his own death, the wizard Drum Billet sets out to pass on his power and his staff to his predicted successor, the eighth son of an eighth son. But there is a problem. The eighth son turns out to be a daughter, and women aren't supposed to be wizards. (`Where does it say women can't be wizards?' `It doesn't say it anywhere, it says it everywhere.') But it's too late: Eskarina inherits the wizard's staff, and with the reluctant help of the witch Granny Weatherwax sets out to learn her new calling. p/b 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 misogynistic) 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_. ---------------------------------------- 1.4 Mort %A Terry Pratchett %T Mort %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) "in association with Colin Smythe" %D 11/87 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-575-04171-4 %I Corgi (p/b) %D 11/88 ISBN 0-552-13106-7 %I Signet (mmp/b) %D 4/89 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-451-15923-3 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 1994 ISBN 0-552-14015-5 %I Roc (mmp/b) %D nyk [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-451-45113-9 %I Isis (six-cassette audio/b) %D 1995 ISBN 1-85695-845-0 %I Victor Gollancz (miniature h/cvr) %D 1995 ISBN 0-575-06167-7 %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) [larger format; letterbox d.j.] %D 11/96 [this edn. out of print by 1999, reprint overdue] ISBN 0-575-06408-0 %I Roc mmp/b [this edition now out of print] %D 8/98 [scheduled] ISBN 0-451-.....-. nyk %I Isis [large-print h/cvr edn] %D nyk ISBN 1-85089-044-7 %I HarperTorch (merkin p/b) %D 2/01 [scheduled by HarperPrism for mmp/b 4/00: schedule altered] ISBN 0-06-102068-0 %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 1/9/04 ISBN 0-552-15261-7 [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b; abr.) %D 8/10/04 ISBN 0-552-15225-0 (with "serious" cover art) h/cvr blurb: In _Mort_, Terry Pratchett returns to `Discworld', the setting for his popular series of comic fantasy novels, _The Colour of Magic_, _The Light Fantastic_, and _Equal Rites_. Mort is an unpromising, gangling teenager who becomes as apprent- ice to Death, but proves less than gifted at his new task of ush- ering souls out of the world. In fact, when it comes to the rath- er attractive Princess Keli (due to be assassinated) Mort fluffs it completely. He kills the assassin instead, thus interfering with the implacable workings of Fate. But reality isn't changed so easily; history as it should have been begins to take shape around Keli's city-state of Sto Lat. Can Mort save Keli before she is squeezed out of existence? Death, having delegated much of his work to Mort, is displaying disturbingly human characteristics: drinking, dice-playing and becoming curious about the nature of fun. Mort, meanwhile, is becoming much less cheery and showing a worrying tendency to SPEAK IN HOLLOW CAPITALS... p/b 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... ---------------------------------------- 1.5 Sourcery %A Terry Pratchett %T Sourcery %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) "in association with Colin Smythe" %D 5/88 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-575-04217-6 %I Corgi (p/b) %D 5/89 ISBN 0-552-13107-5 %I Signet (mmp/b) (cover art darrel k. sweet) %D 12/89 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-451-16233-1 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 1994 ISBN 0-552-14011-2 %I Isis (six-cassette audio/b) %D 1995 ISBN 1-85695-862-0 %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) [larger format; letterbox design d-j] %D 11/96 [this edition now out of print (by 7/2000)] ISBN 0-575-06409-9 %I Roc (mmp/b) (cover art darrel k. sweet) %D 8/98 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-451-.....-. nyk %I HarperTorch (merkin p/b) %D 2/01 [scheduled by HarperPrism for mmp/b 4/00: schedule altered] ISBN 0-06-102067-2 %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 1/9/04 ISBN 0-552-15262-5 [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b; abr.) %D 8/10/04 ISBN 0-552-15226-9 (with "serious" cover art) h/cvr blurb: A sourcerer is born - a wizard so powerful that by comparison all other magic is just mucking around in pointy hats. And his very existence brings the Discworld, which is of course flat and rides through space on the back of an enormous turtle, to the very verge of all-out thaumaturgical war*. All that stands in the way is Rincewind, the failed magician, who wants to save the world, or at least that part of it which contains him. More new characters join the Discworld ad- venture: Conina the barbarian hairdresser, Nijel the Destroyer (whose mother still makes him wear woolly underwear) and poss- ibly the first yuppie genie, who's into lamps as a growth area. This time the adventure goes east, or hubwards, or whatever. It doesn't simply draw heavily on _Omar Khayyam_, _Raiders of the Lost Ark_, the _1001 Nights_ and every Arabian B-movie ever made, it scribbles on them as well. . . * A bad thing p/b blurb: There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite nat- urally, 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. ---------------------------------------- 1.6 Wyrd Sisters %A Terry Pratchett %T Wyrd Sisters %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) %D 11/88 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-575-04363-6 %I Corgi %D 11/89 (p/b) ISBN 0-552-13460-0 (p/b) %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 1994 ISBN 0-552-14014-7 %I Roc (mmp/b) (cover art darrel k. sweet) %D nyk (mid /90 ) [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-451-45012-4 %I Isis (eight-cassette audio/b) %D 1996 ISBN 0-7531-0021-5 %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) [larger format; letterbox design d-j] %D 11/96 [this edition now out of print (by 7/2000)] ISBN 0-575-06411-0 %I HarperTorch (merkin p/b) %D 2/01 [scheduled by HarperPrism for mmp/b 4/00: schedule altered] ISBN 0-06-102066-4 %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 1/9/04 ISBN 0-552-15263-3 [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b; abr.) %D 8/10/04 ISBN 0-552-15229-7 (with "serious" cover art) h/cvr blurb: Kingdoms wobble, crowns topple and knives flash on the magical Discworld as the statutory three witches meddle in royal polit- ics. But Granny Weatherwax (of _Equal Rites_) and her fellow coven members find it's all a lot more difficult than playwrights would have you believe. . . Everything you'd expect is here - hunchbacked kings, lost crowns and disguised heirs. And they are joined by things you haven't heard of yet, like a stage-struck thunderstorm and the first recorded instance of the in-flight refuelling of a broomstick. Through it all the wyrd sisters ("This cauldron's got all _yuk_ in it!") battle against frightful odds to put the rightful king on the throne. At least, that's what they think. . . _Wyrd Sisters_ is the sixth of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, which are now well-established as the funniest fantasy series ever - and among the funniest novels of any kind currently being published. p/b blurb: Witches are not by their nature gregarious, and they certainly don't have leaders. Granny Weatherwax was the most highly re- garded 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 ... ---------------------------------------- 1.7 Pyramids %A Terry Pratchett %T Pyramids %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) %D 5/89 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-575-04463-2 %I Corgi (p/b) %D 6/90 ISBN 0-552-13461-9 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 1995 ISBN 0-552-14013-9 %I Roc (mmp/b) (cover art darrel k. sweet) %D c.12/90 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-451-45044-2 %I Isis (eight-cassette audio/b) %D 1997 ISBN 0-7531-0140-8 %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) ["letterbox" design d-j] %D 5/97 ISBN 0-575-06484-6 %I Roc (mmp/b) (cover art darryl k. sweet) %D 10/98 [scheduled] [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-451-.....-. nyk %I HarperTorch (merkin p/b) %D 8/01 ISBN 0-06-102065-6 %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 1/9/04 ISBN 0-552-15264-1 [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b; abr.) %D 2/8/05 ISBN 0-552-15298-6 (with "serious" cover art) h/cvr blurb: It isn't easy, being a teenage pharaoh. You're not allowed to carry money, uninhibited young women peel your grapes for you, everyone thinks you're responsible for making the sun rise and the corn grow, you keep dreaming about seven thin cows and seven fat cows* and, on top of everything else, the Great Pyramid has just exploded because of paracosmic instability. And then you've got to deal with all these assassins, sphinxes, huge wooden horses, mad high priests, philosophers, sacred croc- odiles, gods, marching mummies, jobbing pyramid builders and Hat, the Vulture-Headed God of Unexpected Guests. And all you _really_ wanted was the chance to do something for young people and the inner cities. Definitely the funniest Discworld book since the last one. *One of them playing a trombone. p/b 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 ... ---------------------------------------- 1.8 Guards! Guards! %A Terry Pratchett %T Guards! Guards! %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr)[this edition now out of print] %D 11/89 ISBN 0-575-04606-6 %I Corgi (p/b) %D 11/90 ISBN 0-552-13462-7 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 1995 ISBN 0-552-14012-0 %I Roc (mmp/b) (cover art darrel k. sweet) %D 7/91 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-451-45089-2 %I Isis (eight-cassette audio/b) %D 1995 ISBN 0-7531-0016-9 %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) ["letterbox" design d-j] [there are two states, both id-ed as the first such edition (see indica on reverse of title page): "This edition first published in Great Britain 1997" a] dj with gold shading of author's name & gold separators of cvr art from rest of dj; only cvr art has gloss finish; remainder is silk matte (or gold); dj price ś15.99 (later over-stickered with victor gollancz ś16.99); paper of book is slightly creamy in colour. back cvr separator is old gold ink, not metal. gold blocking on spine is paler, possibly a little redder, in colour; imprint of publisher is horizontal on spine, whereas author's name & title are vertical. indica on reverse of title page includes the two lines: "Printed in Great Britain by St Edmondsbury Press Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk" b] dj has no gold; is fully gloss finished; is unpriced (stickered with price); paper of book is brilliant white. gold blocking on spine is stronger, possibly a little less red, in colour; imprint of publisher on spine is vertical, as are author's name & title. indica on reverse of title page includes the two lines: "Printed in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc" i do not know the priority of these, but exceptionally, the finish of the areas of solid colour on this letterbox d-j is gloss, rather than the silk- matte of the rest of these soi-disant "collectors editions"; nor are there the gold metallic ink lines bordering the illustration, nor shadowing of terry's name, as on all the other collectors' editions seen. i am advised by colin smythe that b] is almost certainly printed for the book club, though it nowhere bears reference to the bca (book club associates), nor to its true printing & publication details - ppint.] %D 5/97 [this edition now out of print (by 7/2000)] ISBN 0-575-06485-4 %I Roc (mmp/b) (cover art darrel k. sweet) %D 10/98 [scheduled] [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-451-.....-. nyk %I HarperTorch (merkin p/b) %D 8/01 ISBN 0-06-102064-8 %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 1/4/05 ISBN 0-552-15293-5 [this "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b; abr.) %D 1/4/05 ISBN 0-552-15299-4 %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b; abr.) %D 2/8/05 ISBN 0-552-15299-4 (with "serious" cover art) h/cvr blurb: _`Of all the cities in the world it could have flown into, it flew into mine. . .'_ Some night-time prowler is turning the citizens of Ankh- Morpork, greatest city of the fantasy Discworld*, into something resembling small charcoal biscuits. And that's a real problem for Captain Vimes of the City Watch, who must tramp the mean streets of the city search- ing for a seventy-foot-long fire-breathing dragon which, he believes, can help him with their enquiries. In a city thrown into turmoil by magic, charcoal biscuits, secret societies and mad lady dragon breeders (`Just tell him _sit_ if he's bothering you'), he's just looking for the facts. * Which is flat and rides through space on the back of four elephants who stand on the shell of an enormous turtle, as every scholar knows. p/b 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! ---------------------------------------- 1.9 Eric %A Terry Pratchett %T Eric %I Victor Gollancz (very large format illustrated hardback and paperback) [vlf p/b is 7.6"/19.5cm wide by 11"/28cm tall; h/cvr boards a little larger] %D 8/90 (both; simultaneous); each subsequently reprinted once. ISBN 0-575-04636-8 (vlf colour-illustr. h/cvr) ISBN 0-575-06836-0 (vlf clr.-illustr.p/b)[= h/cvr signatures in card covers] [all large format edns. now out of print, both h/cvr and p/b.] %I VGSF ("in association with Corgi") (a format p/b: text only) %D 8/91 (11th impression 11/95) ISBN 0-575-05191-4 [this edition is now out of print, replaced by:] %I Vista ("in association with Corgi Books") (a format p/b: text only) %D '96 [and reprints] (f.cvr. adds embossed gold to terry's name, which is now in caps; also resets "Faust", "Eric", "A Discworld Novel" & even the crossing-out of "Faust" [!!] - which some might account improvements - but reversing the artwork was a *bad* idea; Rincewind, the Parrot, the Luggage and Eric are lost from centre stage, shrunk by five ninths, and ignominiously half-wrapped off its lefthand edge, onto the book's spine.) ISBN 0-575-60001-2 [this edition is now out of print] %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 1/7/97 (actually available 30/6/97) ISBN 0-552-14572-6 %I Roc (mmp/b) (cover art darrel k. sweet) %D 9/95 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-451-45357-3 %I Roc (mmp/b) (2nd penguin printing) (cover art darryl k. sweet) %D 6/98 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-451-45357-3 %I Orion Millennium [apparently not in association with Corgi books] %D 5/2000 [reverts to the earlier gollancz VGSF cover art, ISBN 1-85798-954-6 redesign by courtesy of orion's art director, with all of the previously white background now coloured a deep, very, very slightly pinkened sky blue... oh, and the typography's changed. again.] %I HarperTorch (merkin p/b) %D 2/02 ISBN 0-380-82121-4 [yes, i know: this is an avon isbn. i do not know why that truly fine merkin, rupert murdoch's harper empire changed the imprint but not the isbn - pp.] [merkia lost out on the illustrated, very large format edition of Eric; this was recounted in the Great Eric Saga, subtitled: "Why The US Lose on Eric", in at least one of the afp FAQs - but it seems to have disap- peared into a well-hidden pocket of L-space, at some time after the ap- pearance of the (text-only) Roc mmp/b circa 8/95.] h/cvr (& vlf p/b back cover) blurb: You've heard of Faust... This is Eric. There's a difference. Eric is fourteen, lives on the famed and magical Discworld, and is the first ever demonology hacker. Fortunately, he doesn't succeed in raising any devils, but he does raise Rincewind (the most incompetent wizard in the universe) and the Luggage (the world's most dangerous travel accessory). When Eric turns them loose on an unprotected world, the idea is that Rincewind will grant him his three rather adolescent wishes. You know. The usual three. Live forever, rule the world, meet the most beautiful woman who ever lived. Simple, really... Getting marooned at the dawn of Time, changing the future and meeting history's most embarrassing god is only the start. Creating life on the Discworld is a mere detail. Because Rincewind ends up going through Hell. Literally. It'll never be the same again. a format p/b 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 imm- ortal, 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. With 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. ---------------------------------------- 1.10 Moving Pictures %A Terry Pratchett %T Moving Pictures %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) %D 11/90 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-575-04763-1 %I Corgi %D 11/91 (p/b) ISBN 0-552-13463-5 (p/b) %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 1995 ISBN 0-552-14010-4 %I Roc (mmp/b) (cover art darrel k. sweet) %D 1/92 ISBN 0-451-45131-7 %I Isis (eight-cassette audio/b) %D 1997 ISBN 0-7531-0039-4 %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) ["letterbox" design d-j] %D 5/97 [this edition now out of print (by 7/2000)] ISBN 0-575-06486-2 %I HarperTorch (merkin p/b) %D 2/02 ISBN 0-06-102063-X %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 1/4/05 ISBN 0-552-15294-3 [this "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b; abr.) %D 4/7/05 ISBN 0-552-15300-1 (with "serious" cover art) h/cvr blurb: Cameras roll - which means the imps inside have to paint _really fast_ - in the fantastic Discworld when the alchemists discover the magic of the silver screen. But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood hill? As the alien clich‚s of Tinsel Town pour into the world, it's up to the Disc's first film stars to find out. . . THRILL as 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 even heard of") battle the forces of evil and cinema advertising. . . SCREAM as Gaspode the Wonder Dog nearly saves the day. . . EAT POPCORN as you watch the filming of `Blown Away', the oddest Civil War picture ever made. . . A Passionate Saga Set Against the Background of a World Gone Mad! This Will Amaze You! With a Thousand Elephants! ("And afterwards, why not dine at Harga's House of Ribs, for the best in international cuisine; only two minutes from this book . . .") p/b 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! ---------------------------------------- 1.11 Reaper Man %A Terry Pratchett %T Reaper Man %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) %D 5/91 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-575-04979-8 %I Corgi (p/b) %D 5/92 ISBN 0-552-13464-3 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 11/96 ISBN 0-552-14009-0 %I Roc (mmp/b) (cvr Darrell K. Sweet) %D 7/92 ISBN 0-451-45168-6 %I Isis (six-cassette audio/b) %D 1995 ISBN 0-7531-0019-3 %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) ["letterbox" design d-j] %D 5/97 ISBN 0-575-06483-8 %I HarperTorch (merkin p/b) %D 8/02 ISBN 0-06-102062-1 %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 1/4/05 ISBN 0-552-15295-1 [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b; abr.) %D 4/7/05 ISBN 0-552-15301-X (with "serious" cover art) h/cvr blurb: [paras. ?] Death is missing - presumed ... er ... gone. Which leads to the kind of chaos you _always_ get when an import- ant public service is withdrawn. Ghosts and poltergeists fill up the Discworld. Dead Rights act- ivist Reg Shoe - `You Don't Have to Take This Lying Down' - sud- denly has more work than he had ever dreamed of. And newly de- ceased 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 impedim- ent, 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. p/b blurb: *DEATH IS MISSING - PRESUMED ... ER ... GONE*. Which leads to the kind of chaos to _always_ expect when an im- portant public service is withdrawn. 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 gathered in... ---------------------------------------- 1.12 Witches Abroad %A Terry Pratchett %T Witches Abroad %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) %D 11/91 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-575-04980-4 %I Corgi (p/b) %D 11/92 ISBN 0-552-13465-1 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 1996 ISBN 0-552-14415-0 %I Isis (eight-cassette audio/b) %D 1995 ISBN 0-7531-0020-7 %I Roc (mmp/b) (cover art darrel k. sweet) %D 2/93 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-451-45225-9 %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) ["letterbox" design d-j] %D 8/98 ISBN 0-575-06580-X %I Roc (mmp/b) (cover art darrel k. sweet) %D 1/99 ISBN 0-451-.....-. nyk %I HarperTorch (merkin p/b) %D 9/02 ISBN 0-06-102061-3 %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 1/4/05 ISBN 0-552-15296-X [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b; abr.) %D 2/8/05 ISBN 0-552-15302-8 (with "serious" cover art) h/cvr 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 ... p/b blurb as h/cvr blurb, omitting "For one thing.. ..power of the Story." ---------------------------------------- 1.13 Small Gods %A Terry Pratchett %T Small Gods %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) %D 5/92 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-575-05222-8 %I Corgi (p/b) %D 5/93 ISBN 0-552-13890-8 %I HarperCollins (merkin h/cvr) %D 4/94 ISBN 0-06-017750-0 %I HarperCollins (mmp/b) %D 11/94 ISBN 0-06-109217-7 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 5/96 ISBN 0-552-14416-9 %I Isis (eight-cassette audio/b) %D 1997 ISBN 0-7531-0141-6 %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) ["letterbox" design d-j] %D 8/98 ISBN 0-575-06579-6 %I HarperTorch (merkin p/b) %D 3/03 ISBN 0-06-109217-7 %I Corgi (p/b) %D 1/4/05 ISBN 0-552-15293-5 [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b; abr.) %D 2/8/05 ISBN 0-552-15303-6 (with "serious" cover art) h/cvr blurb: [paras. ?] 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?) p/b blurb: In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: "Hey, you!" For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please... ---------------------------------------- 1.14 Lords and Ladies %A Terry Pratchett %T Lords and Ladies %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) %D 11/92 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-575-05223-6 %I corgi (p/b) %D 11/93 ISBN 0-552-13891-6 %I Harper Prism (merkin tp/b) %D 8/95 ISBN 0-06-109216-9 %I Isis (eight-cassette audio/b) %D 1996 ISBN 0-7531-0018-5 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 10/96 ISBN 0-552-14417-7 %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) ["letterbox" design d-j] %D 8/98 ISBN 0-575-06578-8 %I HarperTorch (merkin p/b) %D 3/03 ISBN 0-06-105692-8 (query: was this originally the isbn of a harperprism p/b) %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 1/8/05 ISBN 0-552-15315-X [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b; abr.) %D 2/8/05 ISBN 0-552-15318-4 (with "serious" cover art) h/cvr blurb: [paras. ?] It's a hot Midsummer Night. The crop circles are turning up everywhere -- even on the mustard-and-cress of Pewsey Ogg, aged four. And Magrat Garlick, witch, is going to be married in the morning... Everything ought to be going like a dream. But the Lancre All-Comers Morris Team have got drunk on a fairy mound and the elves have come back, bringing all those things _traditionally_ associated with the magical, glittering realm of Faerie: cruelty, kidnapping, malice and evil, evil murder.[*] Granny Weatherwax and her tiny argumentative coven have _really_ got their work cut out this time... With full supporting cast of dwarfs, wizards, trolls, Morris Dancers and one orang-utan. And lots of hey-nonny-nonny and blood all over the place. [*] But with tons of _style_. p/b blurb: THE FAIRIES ARE BACK - BUT THIS TIME THEY DON'T JUST WANT YOUR TEETH... Granny Weatherwax and her tiny coven are up against _real_ elves. It's Midsummer Night. No Time for dreaming... With full supporting cast of dwarfs, wizards, trolls, Morris dancers and one orang-utan. And lots of hey-nonny-nonny and blood all over the place. ---------------------------------------- 1.15 Men At Arms %A Terry Pratchett %T Men At Arms %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) %D 11/93 [print run 40k; repr 7.5k] [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-575-05503-0 %I corgi (p/b) %D 11/94 ISBN 0-552-14028-7 %I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr; says tp/b in its own indica! - pp) %D 3/96 ISBN 0-06-109218-5 %I Isis (eight-cassette audio/b) %D 1996 ISBN 0-7531-0017-7 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 5/97 1996 ISBN 0-552-14423-1 %I HarperPrism (merkin mmp/b) (cvr michael sabanosh) %D 4/97 ISBN 0-06-109219-3 %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) ["letterbox" design d-j] %D 8/98 ISBN 0-575-06577-X %I HarperTorch (merkin p/b) %D 6/03 ISBN 0-06-109219-3 %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 1/8/05 ISBN 0-552-15316-8 [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b; abr.) %D 2/8/05 ISBN 0-552-15317-6 (with "serious" cover art) h/cvr blurb: ``Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City watch needs MEN!'' But what it's -got- includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), Lance-constable Angua (a woman ... most of the time) and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving). And they need all the help they can get. Because there's evil in the air and murder afoot and something very nasty in the streets. It'd help if it could all be sorted out by noon, because that's when Captain Vimes is officially retiring, handing in his badge and getting married. And since this is Ankh-Morpork, noon promises to be not just high, but stinking. p/b blurb: `Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City Watch needs MEN!' But what it's _got_ includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-Constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-Constable Detritus (a troll), Lance-Constable Angua (a woman...most of the time) and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving). And they need all the help they can get. Because they've only got twenty-four hours to clean up the town and this is *Ankh-Morpork* we're talking about... ---------------------------------------- 1.16 Soul Music %A Terry Pratchett %T Soul Music %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) %D 5/94 ISBN 0-575-05504-9 %I Corgi (p/b) %D 5/95 ISBN 0-552-14029-5 %I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr) %D 1/95 ISBN 0-06-105203-5 %I HarperCollins Prism (merkin mmp/b) %D 10/95 ISBN 0-06-105489-5 %I HarperTorch (merkin p/b) %D 6/03 ISBN 0-06-105489-5 (yes, same ISBN) %I Isis (eight-cassette audio/b) %D 1996 ISBN 0-7531-0120-3 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 11/96 ISBN 0-552-14424-X %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) ["letterbox" design d-j] %D 4/11/99 [delayed from 5, then 6, then 8, then 9/99 by cassell's ISBN 0-575-06689-X sale to orion] %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 1/10/05 ISBN 0-552-15319-2 [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b; abr.) %D 2/10/05 ISBN 0-552-15320-6 (with "serious" cover art) h/cvr blurb: _Other children got given xylophones. Susan just had to ask her grandfather to take his vest off._ Yes. There's a Death in the family. It's hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe - especially when you have to take over the family business, and everyone mistakes you for the Tooth Fairy. And especially when you have to face the new and addictive music that has entered the Discworld. It's Lawless. It changes people. It's called _Music with Rocks In._ It's got a beat and you can dance to it, but ... It's _alive._ And it won't fade away. p/b blurb: OTHER CHILDREN GET GIVEN XYLOPHONES. SUSAN JUST HAD TO ASK HER GRANDFATHER TO TAKE HIS VEST OFF. Yes. There's a Death in the Family. It's hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe - especially when you have to take over the family business, and everyone mistakes you for the Tooth Fairy. And *especially* when you have to face the new and addictive music that has entered Discworld. It's lawless. It changes people. It's called *Music with Rocks In.* It's got a beat and you can dance to it, but... It's *alive.* And it won't fade away. ---------------------------------------- 1.17 The Witches Trilogy %A Terry Pratchett %T The Witches Trilogy %I Victor Gollancz (exclusive edition for W.H.Smith) (h/cvr) %D 9/94 [this edition now out of print.] ISBN 0-575-05896-X %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) [n.b. the pages of this h/cvr are not properly sewn in signatures and then sewn to a backing strip of cloth that is then bound between the boards of the cover: they are merely trimmed and glued to a flexible bound-in backing strip.] %D 3/95 [this edition out of print mid 1998.] [2nd printing dated 1999 not seen 'til 12/00.] ISBN 0-575-05896-X [same isbn as for w.h.smith's exclusive edition.] Omnibus collecting Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad. Witches are not by nature gregarious and they certainly don't have leaders. Granny Weatherwax was the most highly regarded of the leaders they didn't have... Here are three novels featuring one of Terry Pratchett's most celebrated characters, along with her sidekicks, the fertile Nanny Ogg and the New Age's favourite witch, Magrat Garlick: EQUAL RITES Women aren't supposed to be wizards - but nobody told Eskarina, the eighth daughter of an eighth son, when she inherited her father's staff, and with Granny Weatherwax's reluctant help she sets out to learn her new calling. WYRD SISTERS In which Granny discovers that meddling in royal politics is a _lot_ more difficult than certain playwrights would have you believe. WITCHES ABROAD The funniest Grand Tour anywhere, as Granny, Nanny and Magrat travel to distant Genua - to make sure a servant girl _doesn't_ marry the prince. ---------------------------------------- 1.18 Interesting Times %A Terry Pratchett %T Interesting Times. %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) %D 11/94 ISBN 0-575-05800-5 [this edition now o/p] %I Corgi (p/b) %D 11/95 ISBN 0-552-14235-2 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 7/96 ISBN 0-552-14425-8 %I Isis (six-cassette audio/b) %D 1995 ISBN 1-85695-814-0 %I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr) (cvr: michael sabanosh) %D 4/97 ISBN 0-06-105252-3 %I HarperPrism (merkin p/b) %D 4/98 ISBN 0-06-105690-1 %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) ["letterbox" design d-j] %D 4/11/99 [delayed (5 to 6 to 8 to 9 to 11/99) by cassell's sale to orion] ISBN 0-575-06688-1 [actually on sale by 22/10/99] there is also a large-print h/cvr edn: %I Isis %D (not yet known) ISBN (not yet known) %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 1/10/05 ISBN 0-552-15321-4 [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b; abr.) %D 2/10/05 ISBN 0-552-15322-2 (with "serious" cover art) h/cvr blurb: Mighty Battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and his sons Terror and Panic, and Daughter Clancy). The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise *What I Did On My Holidays*. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. Warlords are struggling for power. War (and Clancy) are spreading through the ancient cities. And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is: Rincewind the Wizard, who can't even spell the word `wizard'... Cohen the barbarian hero, five foot tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime's experience of not dying ... ...and a very /special/ butterfly. p/b blurb: MIGHTY BATTLES! REVOLUTION! DEATH! WAR! (AND HIS SONS TERROR AND PANIC, AND DAUGHTER CLANCY). The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise *What I Did On My Holidays*. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. War (and Clancy) are spreading through the ancient cities. And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is: Rincewind the Wizard, who can't even spell the word `wizard'... Cohen the barbarian hero, five foot tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime's experience of not dying ... ...and a very *special* butterfly. ---------------------------------------- 1.19 Maskerade %A Terry Pratchett %T Maskerade %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) [first h/cvr with letterbox style d-j. ab initio.] %D 11/95 (actually available in october) ISBN 0-575-05808-0 %I corgi (p/b) %D 11/96 ISBN 0-552-14236-0 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 11/96 ISBN 0-552-14426-6 %I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr) (cvr: carl d. galian) %D 10/97 ISBN 0-06-105251-5 %I HarperPrism (merkin mmp/b) %D 10/98 ISBN 0-06-105691-X % HarperTorch (merkin p/b) %D 6/04 [scheduled] same ISBN 0-06-105691-X %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 1/10/05 ISBN 0-552-15319-2 [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b; abr.) %D 2/10/05 ISBN 0-552-15324-9 (with "serious" cover art) h/cvr blurb: The Opera House, Ankh Morpork . . . a huge, rambling building, where masked figures and hooded shadows do wicked deeds in the wings . . . where dying the death on stage is a little bit more than just a metaphor . . . where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by an evil mastermind in a hideously deformed evening dress . . . Where . . . there's a couple of old ladies in pointy hats eating peanuts in the stalls and looking at the big chandelier and saying things like: 'There's an accident waiting to happen if ever I saw one'. Yes . . . Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, the Discworld's greatest witches, are back for an innocent night at the opera. So there's going to be _trouble_ (but nevertheless a good evening's entertainment with murders you can really _hum_) p/b blurb: The Opera House, Ankh Morpork . . . a huge, rambling building, where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by an evil mastermind in a hideously deformed evening dress... At least, he hopes so. But Granny Weatherwax, Discworld's most famous witch, is in the audience. _And she doesn't hold with that sort of thing._ So there's going to be _trouble_ (but nevertheless a good evening's entertainment with murders you can really _hum_...) ---------------------------------------- 1.20 Feet of Clay %A Terry Pratchett %T Feet of Clay %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) [h/cvr with letterbox style dj. ab initio.] %D 5/96 (actually available in april) [c. sm. has advised date 6/6/96 !] ISBN 0-575-05900-1 %I Corgi (p/b) %D 2/5/97 (actually available from 28/4/97) ISBN 0-552-14237-9 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 1/7/97 (actually available 30/6/97) ISBN 0-552-14573-4 %I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr) (cvr: - ? - [not seen]) %D 10/96 ISBN 0-06-10....-. nyk %I HarperPrism (merkin mmp/b) (cvr: michael sabanosh) %D 10/97 ISBN 0-06-105764-9 % HarperTorch (merkin p/b) %D 3/04 ISBN 0-06-.....-. %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 1/10/05 ISBN 0-552-15325-7 [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b; abr.) %D 2/10/05 ISBN 0-552-15326-5 (with "serious" cover art) h/cvr blurb: Who's murdering harmless old men? who's poisoning the Patrician? As autumn fogs hold Ankh-Morpork in their grip, the City Watch have to track down a murderer who can't be seen. Maybe the golems know something - but the solemn men of clay, who work all day and night and are never any trouble to anyone, have started to commit suicide ... It's not as if the Watch hasn't got problems of its own. There's a werewolf suffering from Pre-Lunar Tension. Corporal Nobbs is hob-nobbing with the nobs, and there's something really strange about the new dwarf recruit, especially his earrings and eyeshadow. Who can you trust when there are mobs on the streets and plotters in the dark and all the clues point the wrong way? In the gloom of the night, Watch Commander Sir Samuel Vimes finds that the truth might not be out there at all. *_It may be in amongst the words in the head._* A chilling tale of poison and pottery. p/b blurb: THERE'S A WEREWOLF WITH PRE-LUNAR TENSION IN ANKH-MORPORK. AND A DWARF WITH ATTITUDE AND A GOLEM WHO'S BEGUN TO THINK FOR ITSELF. But for Commander Vimes, Head of Ankh-Morpork City Watch, that's only the start... There's treason in the air. A crime has happened. He's not only got to find out whodunit, but howdunit too. He's not even sure what they dun. But as soon as he knows what the questions are, he's going to want some answers. ---------------------------------------- 1.21 Hogfather %A Terry Pratchett %T Hogfather %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) [h/cvr with letterbox style dj. ab initio.] %D 11/96 (actually available 10/96) ISBN 0-575-06403-X %I Corgi (p/b) %D 2/11/97 [announced] (actually on sale in netherlands & scandawegia 10/97) ISBN 0-552-14542-4 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 12/12/97 (was scheduled for 1/11/97) ISBN 0-552-14574-2 %I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr) %D 10/98 ISBN 0-06-105046-6 %I HarperPrism (merkin mmp/b) cvr by roger de muth %D 10/99 ISBN 0-06-105905-6 or (? and ?) %I HarperTorch (merkin p/b) %D 11/03 ISBN 0-06-105905-6 %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 10/06 [scheduled] ISBN 0-552-.....-. [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b; abr.) %D 23/10/06 [scheduled] ISBN 0-552-15429-6 (with "serious" cover art) %I HarperTorch (merkin p/b) %D 12/06 [scheduled] ISBN 0-06-......-. h/cvr blurb: It's the night before Hogswatch. And it's too quiet. There's snow, there're robins, there're trees covered with decorations, but there's a notable lack of the big fat man who delivers the toys . . . He's _gone_. Susan the governess has got to find him before morning, other- wise the sun won't rise. And unfortunately her only helpers are a raven with an eyeball fixation, the Death of Rats and an oh god of hangovers. Worse still, _someone_ is coming down the chimney. This time he's carrying a sack instead of a scythe, but there's something regrettably familiar . . . Ho. Ho. Ho. It's true what they say. `_You'd better watch out . . ._' p/b blurb: IT'S THE NIGHT BEFORE HOGSWATCH. AND IT'S TOO QUIET. Where is the big jolly fat man? Why is _Death_ creeping down chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho? The darkest night of the year is getting a lot darker... Susan the gothic governess has got to sort it out by morning, otherwise there won't _be_ a morning. Ever again... [The 20th..novel..a festive feast of darkness and Death (but with jolly robins and tinsel too).] As they say: You'd better watch out... ---------------------------------------- 1.22 Jingo %A Terry Pratchett %T Jingo %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) [h/cvr with letterbox style dj. ab initio.] %D 6/11/97 [on sale in uk by 22/10/98] ISBN 0-575-06540-0 %I Corgi (p/b) %D 5/11/98 ISBN 0-552-14598-X %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.) %D 5/11/98 ISBN 0-552-14684-6 %I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr) %D 5/98 ISBN 0-06-105047-4 (cover art by michael sabanosh) %I HarperPrism (merkin mmp/b) %D 3/99 ISBN 0-06-105906-4 (cover art by michael sabanosh) % HarperTorch (merkin p/b) %D 6/04 ISBN 0-06-105906-4 %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 1/2/06 ISBN 0-552-15416-4 [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b; abr.) %D 2/2/06 ISBN 0-552-15417-2 (with "serious" cover art) h/cvr blurb: A weather cock has risen from the sea of Discworld, and suddenly you can tell which way the wind is blowing. A new land has surfaced, and so have old feuds. And as two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch has got just a few hours to deal with a crime so big that there's no law against it. It's called `war'. He's facing unpleasant foes who are out to get him... that's just the people on _his_ side. The enemy might be even worse. And his pocket Dis-organiser says he's got _Die_ under `Things To Do Today'. But he'd better not, because the world's cleverest inventor and its most devious politician are on their way to the battlefield with a little package that's _guaranteed_ to stop a battle... Discworld goes to war, with armies of sardines, warriors, fisher- men, squid and at least one very camp follower. p/b blurb: DISCWORLD GOES TO WAR, WITH ARMIES OF SARDINES, WARRIORS, FISHER- MEN, SQUID AND AT LEAST ONE VERY CAMP FOLLOWER As two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch faces unpleasant foes who are out to get him...and that's just the people on his side. The enemy might be even worse. ---------------------------------------- 1.23 The Last Continent %A Terry Pratchett %T The Last Continent %I Doubleday (h/cvr) [non-letterbox style dj.] [this edition possibly %D 2/5/98 [on sale in uk & europe by 24/4/98] now out of print] ISBN 0-385-40989-3 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.) %D 30/4/98 ISBN 0-552-14650-1 %I Isis (?six- or eight-? cassette audio/b) %D 2/99 ISBN 1-85695-...-. %I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr) %D 3/99 ISBN 0-06-105048-2 2 %I corgi (p/b) %D 29/4/99 [on sale 5/5/99 in israel, the netherlands, switzerland] ISBN 0-552-14614-5 %I HarperPrism (merkin mmp/b) %D 2/00 ISBN 0-06-105907-2 %I HarperTorch (p/b) %D 11/04 [scheduled] same ISBN 0-06-105907-2 %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 1/2/06 ISBN 0-552-15418-0 [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b; abr.) %D 2/2/06 ISBN 0-552-15419-9 (with "serious" cover art) h/cvr blurb: This is the Discworld's last continent, a completely separate creation. It's hot. It's dry . . . very dry. There was this thing once called The Wet, which no one now believes in. Practically everything that's not poisonous is venomous. But it's the best bloody place in the world, all right? And it'll die in a few days, except . . . Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Champion sheep shearer, horse rider, road warrior, beer drinker, bush ranger and someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's _sober?_ A man in a hat, whose Luggage follows him around on little legs, who's about to change history by preventing a swagman stealing a jumbuck by a billabong? Yes . . . all this place has between itself and wind-blown doom is Rincewind, the inept wizard who can't even _spell_ wizard. He's the only hero left. Still . . . no worries, eh? Terry Pratchett would like it to be known that _The Last Continent_ is not a book about Australia. It's just vaguely australian. p/b blurb: IT'S THE DISCWORLD'S LAST CONTINENT AND IT'S GOING TO DIE IN A FEW DAYS, EXCEPT... Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Sheep shearer, beer drinker, bush ranger, and someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's sober. A man in a hat whose luggage follows him on little legs. Yes, it's Rincewind, the inept wizard who can't even spell wizard. He's the only hero left. Still...no worries, eh? ---------------------------------------- 1.24 Death Trilogy %A Terry Pratchett %T Death Trilogy %I Gollancz (h/cvr) [non-letterbox style dj.] [n.b. as with The Witches Trilogy, 1.17, the pages of this h/cvr are not properly sewn in signatures, and then sewn to a backing strip of cloth that is then bound between the boards of the cover: they are merely trimmed and glued to a flexible bound-in backing strip.] %D 22/10/98 [on sale by 7/10/98] ISBN 0-575-06584-2 Omnibus collecting Mort, Reaper Man and Soul Music. Introducing the Discworld's most popular character - the fellow with the white horse and the ultimate weight-loss programme . . . DEATH Here are three novels featuring Terry Pratchett's most celebrated denizen of the Discworld, together with the usual motley cast, including Death's granddaughter Susan, Binky and the Death of Rats. MORT Death, having delegated most of his duties to his new apprentice, the uncompromising, gangling teenager Mort, is showing disturb- ingly human characteristics: drinking, dice-playing and becom- ing curious about the nature of Fun . . . REAPER MAN Death is missing, presumed. . . er . . . gone. Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn. SOUL MUSIC It's hard to grow up normally when grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe - especially when you have to take over the family business and everyone keeps mistaking you for the Tooth Fairy. But Susan must face the new music that has entered the Discworld: it's lawless, it changes people . . . it's called Music With Rocks In. And it won't fade away . . . ---------------------------------------- 1.25 Carpe Jugulum %A Terry Pratchett %T Carpe Jugulum %I Doubleday (h/cvr) %D 5/11/98 [on sale holland, belgium, scandawegia, and in merkia (!!) a week earlier] ISBN 0-385-40992-3 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.) %D 5/11/98 ISBN 0-552-14653-6 %I corgi (p/b) %D 4/11/99 ISBN 0-552-14615-3 %I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr) cvr by carl d. galian %D 10/99 ISBN 0-06-105158-6 %I HarperTorch (merkin p/b) cvr carl d. galian %D 8/00 ISBN 0-06-102039-7 %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 2/06 ISBN 0-552-.....-. [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] h/cvr blurb: Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. He thought he'd come to the mountain kingdom of Lancre for a simple little religious ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches, and he's not sure there _is_ a right side. There're the witches - young Agnes, who is _really_ in two minds about everything, Magrat, who is trying to combine witch- craft and nappies, Nanny Ogg, who is far too knowing... and Granny Weatherwax, who is big trouble. And the vampires are _intelligent_ - not easily got rid of with a garlic enema or by going to the window, grasping the curtains and saying, "I don't know about you, but isn't it a bit stuffy in here?" They've got style and fancy waistcoats. They're out of the casket and want a bite of the future. Mightily Oats knows he has a prayer, but wishes he had an axe. ---------------------------------------- 1.26 The Colour of Magic: The Light Fantastic: The First Discworld Novels %A Terry Pratchett %T The Colour of Magic: The Light Fantastic: The First Discworld Novels %I Colin Smythe (h/cvr) [h/cvr with letterbox-style dj] %D 8/5/99 ISBN 0-86140-421-1 [merkin distr. Dufour, stickered & re-isbned 0-86140-421-1][i assume the "re-isbnning" changes the barcode info to give the dollar price. ppint.] %T ?The Colour of Magic: The Light Fantastic: The First Discworld Novels? %I Gollancz (h/cvr) [h/cvr (?with letterbox-style dj?)] [blurb nyk also] %D 10/08 [scheduled] ISBN 978-0-575-.....-. This is how the Discworld began... In _The Colour of Magic_ the failed wizard Rincewind burst upon the world and hasn't stopped running since. This was the book that started the phenomenally successful series. Here is the sapient pearwood luggage, a mobile trunk which launders any clothes put it in [sic] and incidentally homicidally defends its owner. Here is Twoflower, an innocent tourist in a world of nightmares and fairy tales gone wrong. Here is Cohen the Barbarian, the world's oldest and greatest hero. Here is Death, not such a bad sort when you get to know him... They have adventures. It'd take too long to explain. Just read it! [source: colin smythe 4/99][the dj blurb error noted above will be corrected during the life of the first edition of the omnibus - source: colin smythe 4/5/99][which corrected dj + volume will technically constitute the second state of the first edition. ppint.] ---------------------------------------- 1.27 The Fifth Elephant %A Terry Pratchett %T The Fifth Elephant %I Doubleday (h/cvr) %D 4or 5/11/99 [on sale in airports & continental europe by mid 10/99] ISBN 0-385-40995-8 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.) %D 4 or 5/11/99 [in i.m.t. 1/11/99, but i've not heard of it being sold ISBN 0-552-14720-6 ahead of publication date anywhere] %I corgi (p/b) [the p/b bears copies of the adverts in the p/b of %D 2/11/00 1.25 _Carpe Jugulum_ in the back: ignore that for ISBN 0-552-14616-1 the convention in 2000 (which did not take place).] %I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr) %D 3/00 ISBN 0-06-105157-8 %I Isis (unabridged audio/b) %D 12/00 ISBN (nyk) %I HarperTorch (merkin p/b) %D 4/01 ISBN 0-06-102040-0 %I Thorpe Charnwood (large print h/cvr) %D 12/2000 ISBN 0-7089-9210-2 %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 6/06 ISBN 0-552-.....-. [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] Sam Vimes is a man on the run. Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of police and the ambassador to the mysterious, fat-rich country of Uberwald. Now he has nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (don't ask). It's snowing. It's freezing. And if he can't make it through the forest to civilization there's going to be a terrible war. But there are monsters on his trail. They're bright. They're fast. They're werewolves - and they're catching up. Sam Vimes is out of time, out of luck and already out of breath... ---------------------------------------- 1.28 City Watch Trilogy (Omnibus of 1.8, 1.15 & 1.20) %A Terry Pratchett %T City Watch Trilogy %I Gollancz (h/cvr) [non-letterbox style dj. from 1.15 Guards! Guards!] %D 18/11/99 (delayed from 21/10/99) [on sale by 11/11/99] ISBN 0-575-06798-5 [n.b. - in contrast to The Witches Trilogy, 1.17, the pages of this h/cvr _are_ properly sewn in signatures which are then sewn together (but then seemingly glued to stiffened endpapers, not sewn to a flex- ible cloth backing strip before being bound between the boards of the cover; but this would appear to be a far better binding, than that of the earlier two discworld omnibuseseseses, 1.17 + 1.24... - ppint.)] Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City Watch needs MEN! (Or dwarves or trolls or gargoyles or werewolves. . .) _The City Watch_ is a bumper volume containing three of Terry Pratch- ett's celebrated novels in which those noble defenders of Ankh-Mor- pork, the greatest city of the Discworld*, come face to face with some of the most heinous crimes in history. GUARDS! GUARDS! Some night-time prowler is turning the (mostly) honest citizens of Ankh-Morpork into something resembling small charcoal biscuits. And that's a real problem for Captain Vimes, who must tramp the mean streets of the naked city looking for a seventy-foot-long fire-breath- ing dragon which, he believes, can help him with his enquiries. MEN AT ARMS There's evil in the air and murder afoot and something very nasty in the streets. And it'd help if it could all be sorted out by noon, be- cause that's when Captain Vimes is officially retiring, handing in his badge and getting married. FEET OF CLAY Someone is murdering harmless old men and poisoning the Patrician. As autumn fogs hold Ankh-Morpork in their grip, the City Watch have to track down a murderer who can't be seen, and the golems, who may know something, have started committing suicide. Who can you trust when there are mobs on the street and plotters in the dark and all the clues are pointing the wrong way? *Which is flat and rides through space on the back of four elephants who stand on the shell of an enormous turtle, as everyone knows. ---------------------------------------- 1.29 Gods Trilogy (Omnibus of 1.7, 1.13 & 1.21) %A Terry Pratchett %T Gods Trilogy %I Gollancz (h/cvr) [non-letterbox style dj. from 1.7 Pyramids] %D 20/7/00 ISBN 0-575-07036-6 The Discworld is, as _everyone_ knows, and no one should now need to be told, flat. It rides through space on the back of four elephants* which, in turn, are standing on the shell of an enormous turtle. But just because it is being borne through space on the back of a turtle, doesn't mean it doesn't need gods . . . PYRAMIDS It isn't easy, being a teenage pharaoh: you're not allowed to carry money, uninhibited young women peel grapes for you and the Great Pyramid has just exploded because of paracosmic instability . . . SMALL GODS Bruth is the Chosen One. His god has spoken to him, admittedly while curr- ently in the shape of a tortoise; Brutha now has a mission. HOGFATHER It's the night before Hogswatch . . . and it's too quiet. There's snow, there're robins, there're trees covered with decorations, but there's a notable lack of the big fat man who delivers the toys . . . He's _gone_. *There used to be five, but that's another story entirely. [again, the signatures of this omnibus are properly sewn; they are then glued onto the (non-cloth) flexible backing-strip, which in turn is bound between the boards of the cover. - ppint.] ---------------------------------------- 1.30 The Truth %A Terry Pratchett %T The Truth %I Doubleday (h/cvr) (non-letterbox design dj.) %D 2/11/00 (on-sale in iceland by late 8/00, netherlands 10/00...) ISBN 0-385-60102-6 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.) %D 11/00 ISBN 0-552-14793-1 %I HarperCollins (merkin h/cvr) cvr boris zlotsky %D 11/00 ISBN 0-380-97895-4 [isbn is an Avon/Harper Eon no.] on acid-free paper %I Isis (unabridged audio/b) %D 2001 ISBN 1-85695-...-. (n.y.k.) % HarperTorch (merkin p/b) %D 9/01 ISBN 0-380-81319-1 [isbn is an Avon/Harper Eon ISBN] %I corgi (p/b) %D 29/10/01 [on-sale in "open market" countries 9/01] ISBN 0-552-14768-0 %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 6/06 ISBN 0-552-.....-. [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] h/cvr blurb: William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a jour- nalist's life - people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, a man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes. William just wants to get at THE TRUTH Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition... p/b blurb: WILLIAM JUST WANTS TO GET AT THE TRUTH. UNFORTUNATELY, EVERYONE ELSE WANTS TO GET AT WILLIAM. AND IT'S ONLY THE THIRD EDITION... William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a jour- nalist's life - people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, a man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes. ---------------------------------------- 1.31 Thief of Time %A Terry Pratchett %T Thief of Time %I Doubleday (h/cvr) [non-"letterbox" cvr; art by josh kirby] %D 30/4/01 [on sale in some uk shops the previous week; and in iceland & various other countries a fortnight or so earlier] ISBN 0-385-60188-3 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.) %D 5/01 ISBN 0-552-.....-. (n.y.k.) %I HarperCollins (h/cvr) %D ?30/4?/01 ISBN 0-06-019956-3 % HarperTorch (merkin p/b) [cvr art ben perini] %D 5/02 ISBN 0-06-103132-1 %I corgi (p/b) %D 5/02 ISBN 0-552-14840-7 % HarperTorch (merkin p/b) %D 3/04 [scheduled] ISBN 0-06-103132-1 (SAME ISBN No.) %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 6/06 ISBN 0-552-.....-. [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] h/cvr blurb (p/b blurb adds excerpts from newspapers): Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like underwater - how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time. But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will only be the start of everyone's problems. THIEF OF TIME comes complete with a full supporting cast of heroes and villains, yetis, martial artists and Ronnie, the fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (who left before they became famous). ---------------------------------------- 1.32 The Rincewind Trilogy (Omnibus [of 1.5, 1.9 & 1.18) %A Terry Pratchett %T The Rincewind Trilogy %I Gollancz (h/cvr) non-letterbox design dj, art by josh kirby %D 17/5/01 ISBN 0-575-07236-9 Rincewind is a wizard. At least, he is generally referred to as a wizard. He is tall, thin and scrawny, with a raggedy beard that looks like the kind of beard that looks like the kind of beard worn by people who aren't cut out by Nature to be beard-wearers. `To call his understanding of magical theory "abysmal" is to leave no suitable word to describe his grasp of its practice,' said one of his tutors at the Unseen University. He does have a gift for languages and can shout `Don't kill me!' and be understood in a hundred different coun- tries. He is also good at practical geography, which means he always knows exactly where it is he is running away from. _The Rincewind Trilogy_ is a bumper volume containing the complete text of: SOURCERY A Sourceror is born - a wizard so powerful that by compar- ison, all other magic is just mucking about in pointy hats. And his very existence brings the Discworld to the brink of all-out thaumaturgical war.* All that stands in the way is Rincewind . . . ERIC Eric is the Discworld's only Demonology hacker. Pity he's not very good at it. Instead of calling up a nice tractable demon, he gets Rincewind and the extremely _in_tractable Luggage . . . INTERESTING TIMES Mighty Battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and his sons Terror and Panic, and daughter Clancy). And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is Rincewind . . . * A Bad Thing [again, the signatures of this omnibus are properly sewn; they are then glued onto the (non-cloth) flexible backing-strip, which in turn is bound between the boards of the cover. - ppint.] ---------------------------------------- 1.33 The Last Hero (profusely illustrated by paul kidby) %A Terry Pratchett %T The Last Hero %I Gollancz (h/cvr) %D 18/10/01 [seen on-sale in odd uk shops c.8/10/01] ISBN 0-575-06885-X %I Gollancz (gold-blocked incl. image of Cohen black cloth "de luxe" h/cvr) %D 10/01 [1st print. out of print; 2nd print. distributed by 4/02] ISBN 0-575-07370-5 %I HarperCollins %D 11/01 (merkin h/cvr) ISBN 0-06-104096-7 %I HarperCollins (merkin "de luxe" h/cvr) %D 10/01 ISBN 0-06-......-. (n.y.k.) %I Gollancz (large format p/b; includes 16pp [8 double-p illos] extra) %D 8/02 (f.cvr of Rincewind holding his head and screaming from pp126-7) ISBN 0-575-07377-2 % HarperCollins Eos (large format p/b; includes 16pp [8 double-p illos] extra) %D 9/02 ISBN 0-06-050777-2 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.)(possibly) %D 11/02 [guesstimated] ISBN 0-552-.....-. (n.y.k.) h/cvr blurb: He's been a legend in his own lifetime. He can remember the great days of High Adventure. He can remember when a great hero didn't have to worry about fences and lawyers and civilisation. He can remember when people didn't tell you off for killing dragons. But he can't always remember, these days, where he put his teeth . . . He's really not happy about that bit. So now, with his ancient sword and his new walking-stick and his old friends - and they're very old friends - Cohen the Barbarian is going on one final quest. It's been a good life. He's going to climb the highest mountain in the Discworld and meet his gods. He doesn't like the way they let men grow old and die. It's time, in fact, to give something back. The last hero in the world is going to return what the first hero stole. With a vengeance. That'll mean the end of the world, if no-one stops him in time. Someone is going to try. So who knows who the last hero really is ? p/b blurb: [follows h/cvr blurb 'til "...grow old and die.", drops the next sentence, turns the next paragraph's final "." into three (". . ."), and drops the final sentence.] n.b. large format p/b is properly sewn in signatures. ---------------------------------------- 1.34 The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents [p/b est. 11/02] %A Terry Pratchett %T The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents %I Doubleday (h/cvr) cvr art by david wyatt %D 29/10/01 [on-sale in some uk shops 22/10/01] ISBN 0-385-60123-9 %I Corgi (audio/b) cvr art as for h/cvr %D 29/10/01 ISBN 0-552-14924-1 %I HarperCollins Childrens (merkin h/cvr) %D 11/01, , 3/05 (third printing) ISBN 0-06-001233-1 %I Corgi (p/b) %D 11/02 ISBN 0-552-54693-3 % HarperCollins (merkin mmp/b) %D c.11/02 ISBN 0-06-001235-8 %I Corgi (b format p/b) %D 2004 ISBN 0-552-55202-X h/cvr blurb: Imagine a million clever rats. Rats that don't run. Rats that fight... Maurice, a streetwise tomcat, has the perfect money-making scam. He's found a stupid-looking kid who plays a pipe, and he has his very own plague of rats - rats who are strangely educated, so Maurice can no longer think of them as "lunch". And everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers... But when they reach the stricken town of Bad Blintz, the little con suddenly goes down the drain. For someone there is playing a different tune. A dark, shadowy tune. Something very, very bad is waiting in the cellars. The educated rats must learn a new word. EVIL It's not a game any more. It's a rat-eat-rat world down there. And that might only be the start... ---------------------------------------- 1.35 Night Watch %A Terry Pratchett %T Night Watch %I Doubleday (h/cvr) [non-"letterbox" front cover art by paul kidby] %D 7/11/02 (seen on-sale in the uk late 10/02) ISBN 0-385-60264-2 %I Corgi (twin-cassette audio/b approx. 3hrs) %D 11/02 ISBN 0-552-14898-9 %I Corgi (cd audio/b approx. 3hrs?) %D 11/02 ISBN 0-552-15074-6 %I HarperCollins (merkin h/cvr) %D 11/02 ISBN 0-06-001311-7 on acid-free paper %I Fantastic Audio (unabridged audiobook) %D 11/02 [scheduled] ISBN 1-57453-534-X %I corgi (p/b) cvr art from the h/cvr %D 10/03 [scheduled] ISBN 0-552-14899-7 % HarperTorch (merkin p/b) %D 9/03 ISBN 0-06-001312-5 %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 10/06 [scheduled] ISBN 0-552-.....-. [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he's back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck. Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger self how to be a good copper and change the outcome of a bloody rebellion. There's a problem: if he wins, he's got no wife, no child, no future. A Discworld Tale of One City, with a chorus of street urchins, ladies of negotiable affection, rebels, secret policemen and other children of the revolution. Truth! Justice! Freedom! And a Hard-Boiled Egg! ---------------------------------------- 1.36 The Wee Free Men %A Terry Pratchett %T The Wee Free Men %I Doubleday (h/cvr) cvr art by paul kidby %D 5/03 ISBN 0-385-60533-1 %I Corgi (four-cd [?] audio/b approx. 3hrs) %D 5/03 [guessed] ISBN 0-552-.....-. %I HarperCollins (merkin h/cvr) cover art by chris gall %D 5/03 ISBN 0-06-001236-6 %I Fantastic Audio (unabridged audiobook) %D 5/03 [guessed] ISBN 1-57453-...-. %I ISIS Audio Books (4?-cd unabridged audiobook) %D 9/03 ISBN 0-7531-1853-X %I ISIS Audio Books (8?-cassette unabridged audiobook) %D 9/03 ISBN 0753118688 %I Harper Children's Audio (CC) %D 1/10/03 ISBN 0-06-056625-6 %I corgi ("b" format p/b) cvr art from h/cvr %D 5/04 ISBN 0-552-54905-3 % HarperTrophy (merkin mmp/b) %D 1/6/04 ISBN 0-06-001238-2 % HarperTempest (merkin m?mp/b) %D 8/06 [scheduled] ISBN 0-06-.....-. There's trouble on the Aching farm - a monster in the river, a headless horseman in the driveway and nightmares spreading down from the hills. And now Tiffany Aching's little brother has been stolen by the Queen of the Fairies (although Tiffany doesn't think this is entirely a bad thing). Tiffany's got to get him back. To help her, she has a weapon (a frying pan), her granny's magic book (well, _Diseases of the Sheep_, actually) and - `Crivens! Wht aboot us, ye daftie!' - oh yes. She's also got the Nac Mac Feegle, the Wee Free Men, the fightin', thievin', tiny blue-skinned pictsies who were thrown out of Fairyland for being Drunk and Disorderly... A wise, witty and wonderfully inventive adventure set on the Discworld (R). p/b blurb: `Crivens! Wht aboot us, ye daftie!' There's trouble on the Aching farm - nightmares spreading down from the hills. And Tiffany Aching's little brother has been stolen away. To get him back, Tiffany has a weapon (a frying pan), her granny's magic book (well, _Diseases of the Sheep_, actually) - and the Nac Mac Feegle, the Wee Free Men, the fightin', thievin', tiny blue-skinned pictsies who were thrown out of Fairyland for being Drunk and Disorderly... Set on the Discworld (R)A wise, witty and wonderfully inventive adventure comes from the author of _The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents_, winner of the 2001 Carnegie Medal. ---------------------------------------- 1.36a The Illustrated Wee Free Men %A Terry Pratchett and Stephen Player %T The Illustrated Wee Free Men %I Doubleday (h/cvr) %D 1/11/07 [scheduled] 10/08 [?re?-scheduled] ISBN 0-385-61254-0 [11/07 scheduled isbn as advised] ISBN 978-0-385-61254-. [? - 10/08 isbn-13 digit] %I Harper (merkin h/cvr) %D 10/08 [scheduled] ISBN 978-0-06-......-. ---------------------------------------- 1.37 Monstrous Regiment %A Terry Pratchett %T Monstrous Regiment %I Doubleday (h/cvr) cvr art by paul kidby %D 10/03 (patchily on sale late september 2003) ISBN 0-385-60340-1 %I Corgi (four-cd [?] audio/b approx. 3hrs) %D 10/03 [guessed] ISBN 0-552-.....-. %I HarperCollins (merkin h/cvr) %D 10/03 ISBN 0-06-001315-X %I Fantastic Audio (unabridged audiobook) %D 10/03 [guessed] ISBN 1-57453-...-. %I corgi (p/b) %D 10/04 ISBN 0-552-14941-1 % HarperTorch (merkin mmp/b) %D 9/04 ISBN 0-06-001316-8 %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 10/06 [scheduled] ISBN 0-552-.....-. [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] It began as a sudden strange fancy. . . Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape took more time. . . And now she's enlisted in the army, and is searching for her lost brother. But there's a war on. There's always a war on. And Polly and her fellow recruits are suddenly in the thick o f it, without any training, and the enemy is hunting them. All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army and a vampire with a lust for coffee. Well. . . they have the Secret. And as they take the war to the heart of the enemy, they have to use all the resources of. . .the Monstrous Regiment. ---------------------------------------- 1.38 A Hat Full of Sky %A Terry Pratchett %T A Hat Full of Sky %I Doubleday (h/cvr) cover art by paul kidby %D 5/04 [scheduled; on-sale patchily in uk last week in April 2004] ISBN 0-385-60736-9 %I Random House Children's (four-cd [?] audio/b approx. 3hrs %D 29/4/04 read by Tony Robinson) ISBN 1-85681-454-8 %I HarperCollins (h/cvr) cover art by chris gall %D 5/04 ISBN 0-06-058660-5 %I Fantastic Audio (unabridged audiobook) %D 5/04 [guessed] ISBN 1-57453-...-. %I corgi (p/b) %D 5/05 (new cover art by Paul Kidby) ISBN 0-552-55144-9 % Harper? (merkin m?mp/b) %D 6/05 [scheduled] ISBN 0-06-.....-. % HarperTempest (merkin m?mp/b) %D 8/06 [scheduled] ISBN 0-06-.....-. A real witch can ride a broomstick, cast spells and make a proper shambles out of anything. _Eleven-year-old Tiffany Aching can't._ A real witch never casually steps out of her body, leaving it empty. _Tiffany does._ And there's something just waiting for a handy body to take over. Something ancient and horrible, which can't die. Now she's got to fight back and learn to be a real witch really quickly, with the help of arch-witch Mistress Weatherwax and the truly amazing Miss Level... "Crivens! And us?" Oh, yes. And the Nac Mac Feegle - the rowdiest, toughest, smelliest bunch of fairies ever to be thrown out of Fairyland for being drunk at two in the afternoon. They'll fight anything. And even they might not be enough... ---------------------------------------- 1.39 Going Postal %A Terry Pratchett %T Going Postal %I Doubleday (h/cvr)(cover art by Paul kidby) %D 7/10/04 [scheduled] (on sale during September) ISBN 0-385-60342-8 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.) %D 8/10/04 ISBN 0-552-14942-X %I Corgi (three-cd [?] audio/b abr.) %D 8/10/04 ISBN 0-552-15228-5 (with kidby art) %I HarperCollins %D 10/04 [expected] ISBN 0-06-001313-3 %I Fantastic Audio (unabridged audiobook) %D 10/04 [guessed] ISBN 1-57453-...-. %I corgi (p/b)(cvr art from h/cvr) %D 1/10/05 ISBN 0-552-14943-8 % HarperTorch or Harper Eos (merkin mmp/b) %D 1/10/05 ISBN 0-06-050293-2 %I Corgi (p/b) (cover design: nyk) %D 10/06 [scheduled] ISBN 0-552-.....-. [this monochrome "serious" cover is aimed at people ashamed to be seen reading fantasy - or perhaps, terry pratchett books] Moist van Lipwig is a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It's a tough decision. But he's got to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers' Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer. Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too. Maybe it'll take a criminal to succeed where honest men have failed, or maybe it's a death sentence either way. Or perhaps there's a shot at redemption in the mad world of the mail, waiting for a man who's prepared to push the envelope... ---------------------------------------- 1.40 Thud! %A Terry Pratchett %T Thud! %I Doubleday (h/cvr) (excellent cover art Paul Kidby) %D 1/10/05 [scheduled; on-sale in uk on/by 27th September 2005] ISBN 0-385-60867-5 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.) %D 2/10/05 ISBN 0-552-15362-1 %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b abr.) %D 2/10/05 ISBN 0-552-15363-X %I HarperCollins (merkin h/cvr) [*awful* cover art - ppint.] %D 10/05 [scheduled; on-sale September 2005] ISBN 0-06-081522-1 %I Fantastic Audio (unabridged audiobook) %D 10/05 [guessed] ISBN 1-57453-...-. %I corgi (p/b) %D 1/10/06 [on-sale by third week-end in September] ISBN 0-552-15267-6 [changing to 978-0-552-15267-9 from January 2007] % HarperTorch (merkin p/b) still that cover, by Scott McKowan %D 10/06 [guessed] ISBN 0-06-081531-0 Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago. But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vines of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office. With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution. And darkness is _following_ him. Oh...and at six o'clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, he must go home to read _Where's My Cow?_, with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy. There are some things you _have_ to do. [.. - pp.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1.41 Where's My Cow? [h/cvr 10/05] (a picture-book, not a novel) %A Terry Pratchett [text] & Melvyn Grant [art] %T Where's My Cow? %I Doubleday (h/cvr) cover art by Melvyn Grant %D 1/10/05 [scheduled & on-sale date] ISBN 0-385-60937-X %I HarperCollins (merkin h/cvr) %D 10/05 [scheduled] ISBN 0-06-087267-5 %I corgi (p/b) %D 10/06 [guessed] ISBN 0-552-.....-. % Harper Childrens? (merkin p/b) %D 10/06 [guessed] ISBN 0-06-.....-. [...and reading this to your "young sam" is one of them - pp.] This is a book about reading a book, which turns into a different book. But it all ends happily! "...wonderfully instructive" Tuppence Swivel, the Times of Ankh Morpork "...Are we not all, in some way, looking for our cow?" Brian Yeast, Ankh-Morpork Literary Gazette and Paradigm Shifters' Monthly ---------------------------------------- 1.42 Wintersmith %A Terry Pratchett %T Wintersmith %I Doubleday (h/cvr) cover art by paul kidby %D 10/06 [on-sale by third week-end in September] ISBN 0-385-60984-1 [changing to 978-0-385-60984-5 from January 2007] %I Doubleday (y/pb) cover art by paul kidby %D c. 10/06 [?] ISBN 0-385-61149-8 [changing to 978-0-385-61149-7 from January 2007] %I Corgi (four-cd [?] audio/b approx. 3hrs) %D 10/06 [guessed] ISBN 0-552-.....-. %I HarperTempest (merkin h/cvr) %D 10/06 ISBN 0-06-......-. %I Fantastic Audio (unabridged audiobook) %D 10/06 [guessed] ISBN 1-57453-...-. %I corgi (p/b) %D 10/07 [guessed] ISBN 0-552-.....-. % HarperTeen (merkin m?mp/b) %D 10/07 ISBN 978-0-06-089033-9 [the third Tiffany Aching book, extracts read by terry at the 2004 Discworld Convention, i am advised - pp.] Tiffany Aching put one foot wrong, made one little mistake... And now the spirit of winter is in love with her. He gives her roses and icebergs, says it with avalanches and showers her with snowflakes - which is tough when you're thirteen, but also just a little bit...cool And just because the Wintersmith wants to marry you is no excuse for neglecting the chores. So she must look after Miss Treason, who is 113 and has far too many eyes, learn the secret of Boffo, catch Horace the cheese, stop Annagramma Hawkin from becoming an embarrassment to all witches, avoid Nanny Ogg giving her a lecture on sex, stop the gods from seeing her in the bath- `Crivens!' - oh, yes, and be helped by the Nac Mac Feegles, whether she wants it or not. It's unfair, but as Granny Weatherwax says, no-one ever said it was going to be fair. And if Tiffany doesn't work it all out, there will never be another springtime... ---------------------------------------- 1.40 Making Money %A Terry Pratchett %T Making Money %I Doubleday (h/cvr) %D 1/10/07 [scheduled; on-sale by or during third week 9/07] originally advertised as ISBN 0-385-61101-3, but appeared as: ISBN 978-0-385-61101-5 %I Corgi (three-cd audio/b abr.) %D c. 9/07 ISBN 978-0-552-.....-. %I HarperCollins (merkin h/cvr) %D c. 9/07 ISBN 978-0-06-116164-3 %I corgi (p/b) %D c. 8/08 [on sale in uk by 15/7/08] ISBN 978-0-552-15490-1 % HarperTorch (merkin p/b) %D 10/08 [scheduled] ISBN 978-0-06-0.....-. It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life. But, as former conman Moist von Lipwig is learning, life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), and it turns out that the Royal Mint runs at a loss. A three-hundred-year-old wizard is after his girlfriend, he's about to be exposed as a fraud, but the Assassin's Guild might get him first... In fact, a lot of people want him dead. Oh. And every day he has to take the Chairman for walkies. Everywhere he looks he's making enemies. What he _should_ be doing is . . . Making Money! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ terry has, more than once, said he feels he may slow down, or take a holiday from the discworld - and equally often discovered that there was another discworld story that insisted on being told, or another story that proved to be as well-suited to being set therein; and, that he has no intention of writing "the last discworld novel", other than in the sense that he himself is mortal and that he will not permit his creation to be franchised or otherwise given the artificial semblence of life thereafter, by any other hand. i, for one, will eagerly pounce upon any novel i find with his byline, whatever the world in which it be set, having greatly enjoyed all that he's had published, and not just the nowadays best-selling discworld novels: see part two of this bibliography for quite how many more stories than just the discworld novels are available. - ppint.] ---------------------------------------- 9. Notes (on publishers, ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers), formats... ---------------------------------------- 9.1 Note on uk publishers, ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers) n.b. 10-digit ISBNs are being replaced by 13-digit ISBNs formed by prefixing the former number with 978-. this will, of course, alter the final check digit of the former number. The ten-digit International Standard Book Number is used to uniquely identify an edition of a book (though not, in uk usage, each printing). it consists of a first section, identifying the language ("0-" or "1-" indicates english); a second section identifying the publisher, some- times, now, the imprint - where one publisher has been taken over by another). it is the last part of the isbn that is peculiar to the part- icular edition of a book from the publisher identified by these prefixes (the final tenth figure is a check digit, that allows transmission and typing errors to be caught by computer systems - or, in theory, by hand). UK publishers of Terry's books, and of anthologies containing his stories. 0-00- & 0-586- HarperCollins_Publishers_ (formerly William Collins & Sons, before that truly fine merkin citizen, Rupert Murdoch, then xxxxian, added them to his swagbag): included are the imprints HarperCollins, Voyager, etc; Collins, whose p/b imprint was Fontana, had by then bought Granada Publish- ing, who had themselves absorbed Mayflower, Rupert Hart-Davis, McGibbon & Kee, Arco, Paladin, and others - not least, Panther, which house went back to the fifties, when Panther Books was set up as an imprint of the publish- ers, Hamilton & Co., Staffs... Pan Books (see 0-330-) was formerly associat- ed with Collins by shared ownership of Pan, but was operationally separate; 0-09- indicates a book published by the Arrow division of Random House UK, formerly part of Century-Hutchinson, formerly Arrow Books, the p/b imprint of the long-established uk publishers, Hutchinson & Co., who were for a decade or so owned by London Weekend Television. imprints included Legend (now sold to Little, Brown [Warner UK], who own the Orbit imprint, and are re-badging as Orbit books, as they reprint - and changing ISBNs accordingly [see 1-85723-] - as of mid-1997), Ebury Press, Vermilion, & Red Fox, whose p/bs and h/cvrs also use this prefix: Random House has recently been bought by Bertelsmann, who also own Transworld Publishers [0-385-, 0-552- below]; who have therefore, naturally, been incorporated into Random House UK... ...who've now been re-christened The Random House Group Ltd.); 0-19- is the prefix identifying Oxford University Press; 0-285- indicates Souvenir Press; 0-330- identifies Pan Books, formerly owned by a consortium of William Collins, Granada and Thomas Tilling/British Electric Traction; now an imprint of Macmillan Publishers, who owned, but now are a sister company of, the merkin publisher, St. Martins Press (the owners of Tor Books till this reorganisation): all are now parts of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings; 0-7522- is the prefix Macmillan use on their Boxtree imprint, formerly an independent publisher; 0-385- and 0-552- are, respectively, the Doubleday (h/cvr) and Corgi (p/b) imprints of Transworld Publishers, now owned by the Bertelsmann group of Germany, as are the merkin publishers Bantam Doubleday Dell, who have the rights to distribute these editions in Canada, where these rights are clear to so do [and as also, now, are both Random House and Random House U.K. into which latter Transworld Publishers have recently been incorporated]; Doubleday and Corgi are also imprints of Random House Children's Books, using the same isbn prefixes; but as this is in turn a division of The Random House Group Ltd, i doubt anyone is any more confused than before. 0-416- and 0-7497- indicate Methuen Childrens Books imprints of the Reed (a.k.a. Octopus Publishing) group, formerly imprints of A.B.P. Ltd. - their adult consumer books imprints have recently (1997) been bought by Random House U.K., who might've varied isbns on later reissue (isbn pre- fix 0-09-); but whose Legend adult sf & fantasy list has, in turn, since been sold on to Little, Brown (Time-Warner uk); the destination of Magnet & Mammoth (ABP's Children's list p/bs) & MCB is Egmont Children's Books. 0-417- identifies Methuen Books, formerly an imprint of the Reed (a.k.a. Octopus Publishing) group, formerly an imprint of A.B.P. Ltd, being one of the publishers that went form that company together with Eyre & Spottiswoode. The Methuen general publishing list (?but not imprint?) was sold to Random House U.K, who have absorbed it into their other imprints' lists. I'm not yet sure whether Methuen Drama are now owned by another of the publishing/publisher-owning conglomerates, or no. 0-450- indicates N.E.L. (New English Library), owned by Times-Mirror, inc., of Los Angeles [iirc] when they published the first of their paperback editions of two of Terry's early novels, but merely an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton by the time they published the first p/b edition of _Strata_; now an imprint of Hodder Headline, upon Hodder's being taken over by Headline Publishers, who have themselves since been bought by W.H.Smith's, who've since sold them onto Hachette of france, who also own Orion, and are in turn owned by Lagardere. 0-55214- and 0-5521- both indicate Prima Publishing, a division of Prima Communications, Inc: the former, in the uk, and the latter, in merkia; 0-573- denotes publications of Samuel French Ltd. 0-575- identifies the once-independent Victor Gollancz Ltd., and its VGSF imprint: both of these became imprints of Cassell, which is itself now owned by Orion (since late 1998), who are in turn themselves owned by Hachette of rance [and the banks and pension funds, etc.], and also Vista, which Cassell launched as an imprint of Cassell using that same stem, after they bought Gollancz from merkin publishers, Houghton Miflin (who were the owners of Victor Gollancz Ltd. from their purchase of it upon the retirement of Livia Gollancz); see also 0-75281- etc. (Orion); titles on the vista list are being re-badged and -isbn-ed as Orion Millennium books as they are reprinted. 12/99: or were; Millennium seemed to be in the process of being transformed into the p/b imprint of Gollancz sf (both still being imprints of Orion...) 1999-2000, and is now (2000-1) being rebadged Gollancz ! 10/2001: Victor Gollancz ltd is now credited as a subsidiary of the Orion publishing group, which is owned by Hachette of france, now [2004] owned by Lagardere. 0-7522- is the prefix Macmillan use on their Boxtree imprint (see 0-330-); 0-75281- and 0-75280- indicate Orion, whose Millennium imprint formerly used (and again, now, sometimes still uses) 1-85798- as its prefix. 70% owned by Hachette, the french publishing conglomerate, since mid 1998, in turn now (2004) owned by Lagadere; see also 0-575- (Gollancz, Vista) prefix, above. 0-7531-, 1-85089-, and 1-85695- identify Isis Publishing Ltd: these are large print h/cvr editions and unabridged audio/bs (cassette & now cd); Isis are now owned by Ulverscroft/Thorpe, who are using their Thorpe Spectrum (p/b) and Thorpe Charnwood (h/cvr) imprints for titles they are publishing (2001 onwards), and the isbn prefix 0-7089-. 0-86140-, 0-900675- and 0-901072- all indicate Colin Smythe Ltd. Colin is Terry's agent, and was the first to publish his books; 1-85028- and 1-85585- indicate the Paper Tiger imprint, once of Dragon's World: both became imprints of Collins-Brown, taken by over Chrysalis, and then sold off to their publishing interests' management; while 1-85286- identifies Titan Books Ltd; 1-85487- is used by Robinson Publishing, on their Mammoth imprint (not to be confused with the children's imprint of Methuen, as was], as well as upon others, such as Raven, and even Robinson; 1-85723- indicates the Orbit imprint of Little, Brown & Co. Ltd, the uk book-publishing arm of Hachette/Lagadere; originally the SF imprint of the independent Futura Publishing, who were absorbed by that great czech briton, robert maxwell, and sold off by the liquidators after he took an ill-advised leak; Little, Brown & Co renamed Time-Warner UK and then AOL- Time-Warner UK; then re-renamed Time-Warner UK - and then the entire kit & kaboodle here and in merkia sold by Time-Warner to Lagadere (the french conglomerate, owners of Hachette and therefore Orion & Gollancz); the uk branch now (mid-2006) re-re-renamed Little, Brown Book Group; the "Orbit" imprint is being kept, and, indeed, the merkin Warner sf & fantasy imprint "Aspect" has been closed down and replaced by "Orbit". 1-870824- identifies Beccon Publications. 1-876- is borne by Ink calendars; a subsidiary of Gibson Greetings Intl. outside of xxxxia, but still an independent (if partially a Gibson-owned) publisher therein (n.b. ownership information now over a decade old). 1-903047- indicates titles from No Exit Press. ---------------------------------------- 9.2 Note on merkin publishers & ISBNs. Merkin publishers of Terry's books, and of anthologies containing his stories. 0-06- HarperCollins_Publishers_, inc. (formerly Harper & Row, before that truly fine merkin citizen, Rupert Murdoch, added them to his swagbag): in- cluded are the imprints HarperCollins, HarperPrism, etc; from 21 september 1999, HarperPrism has ceased to exist as an imprint, save for legacy stock, being folded into the Eos imprint of murdoch's recent acquisition, Morrow/ Avon, from Hearst. see 0-380-. (terry's merkin p/bs' imprint is now HarperTorch. or HarperTempest. or HarperTrophy. probably. unless HarperManglement've dreamed up aught else.) 0-312- and 0-812- identify St. Martins Press (h/cvr & tp/b) and Tor Books (mmp/b) respectively, Tor was formerly an independent publisher, though the former prefix is now used on Tor h/cvr editions; i don't recall what the St. Martins' isbns of Terry's early novels were, but they did not pro- duce their own editions, iirc; rather, they re-dust-jacketed, and St. Mar- tins-stickered, (run-ons of) Colin Smythe's editions for merkin distribn. they were owned by Macmillan uk [not associated with Collier-Macmillan] until february '98; all are now parts of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings; 0-380- indicates Avon, formerly an independent publisher, but acquired by that truly fine merkin citizen, Rupert Murdoch, for his swagbag, from the Hearst conglomerate. the HarperPrism list is being subsumed into Avon's AvonEos sf/f list; no future HarperPrism titles will appear after those already in production (2000). i don't yet know whether the backlist will be rebadged and re-isbned, but the imprint current merkin discworld titles bear is now HarperCollins, for the hardcovers, and HarperTorch for the p/bs. 0-425- and 0-441- are both identifiers of the Berkley Publishing Group, until recently owned by Matsushita of Japan, were then sold off to the canadadadian drinks giant, Seagram, and are currently being absorbed by the merkin wing of Penguin, which was renamed Putnam-Penguin, then Dutton- Penguin, and seems to've settled upon Penguin Books, inc... for a while. 0-441- indicates use of the Ace imprint, once an independent publisher set up and owned by A. A. Wynn; eventually sold to Grosset & Dunlap, and i believe for a while associated with the Filmways studios, before being bought by the Berkley-Putnam group. 0-451- indicates merkin imprints of New American Library (- originally set up as merkin Penguin by Ian Ballantine and others; at the time they started to publish merkin editions of Terry's books, they were owned by Times-Mirror group of Los Angeles, and were the mother, or a sister, com- pany of the british publisher, New English Library), Signet & Roc. They are now imprints of Penguin USA, inc., or Putnam-Penguin (or whatever the Great Penguin in darkest Harmondsworth has decided to call its merkin publishing wing this week - possibly, "Dutton-Penguin"...). has also been used by Penguin for Signet imprint in the uk - where, rather confusingly, the Roc imprint borrowed from merkia uses the isbn prefix 0-140- as well as 0-451-. happily, for booksellers, bibliographers, collectors and librarians ("ooook !"), no Signet/Roc uk book contains aught by Terry - leastways, not *yet*... 0-5521- and 0-55214- both indicate Prima Publishing, a division of Prima Communications, Inc: the former, in merkia, and the latter, in the uk; 0-7867- is the prefix for books published by Carroll and Graf; 0-86140- indicates Dufour, who distribute Colin Smythe's editions of Terry's books, stickered and re-isbned appropriately; 0-894- identifies Workman Publishing, while 0-9630944- identifies Dreamhaven Books, and 1-55634- publications of Steve Jackson Games, whilst 1-57453- identifies Fantastic Audio audiobooks, and 1-886778- NESFA, the New England Science Fiction Association. ---------------------------------------- 9.3 Non-english language editions' ISBNs. [snipped from parts one & two of the bibliography: see part three] ---------------------------------------- 9.4 Notes on book formats. audio/b "Audiobook" - a reading of the novel, or an abbreviation of it, recorded on a number of compact cassettes or cd. the Corgi audio/b list is of abridgements narrated by Tony ("Baldrick") Robinson, filling two cassettes per novel, running time circa three hours each; the Isis audio/b range is of the complete novels narrated by either Nigel ("Neil") Planer [or Celia Imries, on the first two witches novels] and occupying variously six, or eight, cassettes (and more recently also upon cds); the running time varying widely between seven and a half, and eleven hours. Neither publishers' audio/b cassettes are differentiated in a way that blind or visually impaired (poorly-sighted) people can easily distinguish; this is of less consequence with the corgi audio/bs, as there are only two cassettes per novel to confuse; however, the isis audio/b packaging does allow strict order to be followed - IF the cassettes are ALWAYS returned to the appropriate position (& preferably, the earlier, "odd" sides upper- most, or if suitably-embossed, stiff plastic sticky tape (e.g. dymo(R) ) is used). h/cvr "Hardcover" - the printed pages are published bound between boards (generally cloth-covered: hence h/cvr editions also referred to as "cloth"). the pages are properly sewn into signatures, and collected by being sewn to cloth tapes, and sewn and glued onto a backing cloth, which is then glued to the inside edges of the cloth-covered boards. the endpapers are then glued in to cover the insides of the cloth-covered boards, and to the spine edges of the fly pages. n.b. the gollancz/cassell/orion editions of The Witches Trilogy and The Death Trilogy, and Nanny Ogg's Cookbook are not so bound, being in effect p/bs which happen to have board covers... n.b. the gollancz/cassell miniature h/cvrs are not so bound, in that the cloth elements of a proper binding are completely omitted. [this note will need rewriting, should editions of Terry's books ever be published in quarter, half, three-quarter or tasty full leather bindings.] mmp/b "Mass Market Paperback" - this term is descriptive of the distribut- ion system used to make these merkin p/bs available to the retailer; essentially, mmp/bs are treated as monthly magazines, their covers being stripped and returned for credit, if unsold on the arrival of the following month's titles. in _size_, the mmp/b is approximately the same as the uk "a format p/b"; but virtually all uk p/bs are in fact tp/bs. (cf. "p/b", "tp/b", "yp/b") p/b "Paperback" - the signatures are blocked together and then trimmed, with the resultant individual pages then being glued to the inside spine of a card cover (also known as "perfect" binding). although p/bs have been produced with their pages sewn in signatures, these in turn being glued either to the inside spine of the card cover (or first into paper or cloth tape, and this to the card cover), no such editions exist of Terry's books. [but see the feetnotes to "h/cvr".] the uk "a format p/b" is roughly the same size as the merkin mmp/b; the "b format p/b" is approximately an inch and a quarter taller and wider that the a format p/b. (see also "mmp/b", "tp/b" and "yp/b") n.b. p/bs listed above are "a format p/b", unless otherwise indicated. tp/b "Trade Paperback" - this term is descriptive of the distribution system used to make these (nowadays mostly merkin, for fiction) p/bs available to the retailer; tp/bs are not sold via the news wholesalers, nor the retail outlets they supply (news-stand, chain-store and/or mom+pop store racks, etc.), but via the book trade. also, they are not "strippable" (for credit). the tp/b may be a p/b of any size, & so is not strictly of any particular format. (cf. "mmp/b", "p/b" & "yp/b") yp/b "Yuppieback" - this term is descriptive of uk p/bs manufactured from trimmed signatures of the h/cvr printing: it is a recent uk innovation, normally published at the same time as (or three, or six months after) the h/cvr. the term was derived from the somewhat res- tricted perceived custom for this edition: "those who can afford it (the space as well as the cost) buy the hardcover, and normal people like you and me buy the paperback: that only leaves yuppies, to buy the yuppiebacks." the yp/b is necessarily of the dimensions of the trimmed h/cvr edition signatures. (cf. "mmp/b", "p/b" and "tp/b") ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9/9/08 (9/9/08 for merkins) update and revision copyright (c) by p.pinto further information, explanation and detail welcome... love, ppint. 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