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Portals Navigate here to browse through the articles Bibliography: Books and other material written by Terry Pratchett Characters: Pratchett characters Places: Agatea to Zambingo, even a Place Where The Sun Does Not Shine Discworld Stuff: Anything belonging to the Discworld or Terry Pratchett's writings in general Annotations: Comments by readers relating to Pratchett books. Categories: elements of Pratchettia by groups. About Terry Pratchett Fandom: About or produced by people who read Terry Pratchett's books Reading suggestions: There's a life beyond Pratchett, and after triple-reading every book and map this is where you start that life Webcomic and Graphic Novel Suggestions - a more visual spin-off from Reading Suggestions. Categories Many articles are also collected in different categories Discworld Series: Discworld books Watch Series: Books starring the Ankh-Morpork city watch Publishers: Publishers of Terry Pratchett's writings Leading characters: Main characters of the books ... All categories A meeting place: The Mended Drum To discuss non-content matters (what do we do with content disputes, vandalism, etc, what do we want to do with this wiki, and so on), use this location: Discworld & Pratchett Wiki:Mended Drum See the talk page for more ideas on what should be in this wiki, as well as discussions on languages etc. Are you new to wikis and want to try out how it works? On the Sandbox you can edit as much as you like and get used to working with a wiki. Breaking news about Terry Thursday, March 12th 2015: Sir Terry Pratchett died at home in Wiltshire today following a long battle with Alzheimer's. At present no further details are known. [BBC report, 3:26pm GMT] July 7th 2014: From Terry's Twitter feed: "Just to let you all know, the book that's on the screen in front of us - and is well underway - will be the 5th Tiffany Aching novel." April 8th 2014 The first International Sir Terry Pratchett Day, instigated by The International Authors Forum, was celebrated at The London Book Fair' Nov 24th 2013: This wiki failed completely to note the thirtieth anniversary of the Discworld and the publication of The Colour of Magic. A belated happy anniversary to all of us! May 30th 2012: Sir Terry Pratchett wins Wodehouse comic fiction award TP is to have a pig named in his honour after winning the 13th Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. He won for his 50th book Snuff, which has become one of the fastest-selling hardback novels since records began. See here for more. June 13th 2011: Sir Terry Pratchett has told Newsnight that visiting the Dignitas centre to make the documentary Choosing to Die has not changed his mind about assisted suicide. The best-selling author suffers from Alzheimer's and says he wants to die at a time of his choosing. Choosing to Die screened on BBC TV on 13/06/11 at 9:00pm. See here for more. And here for even more.

Featured Article Please, help to maintain the excellent standard of the articles in this wiki. Regularly a key article will be chosen which should be the focus of contributors. Alphabetical list of characters in the works of Terry Pratchett When including characters, please also add them to the Pratchett characters category. This popular page is fourth in views after the Main Page but it has not been updated regularly. Discuss Featured articles | Also in need of editing | Empty pages Latest and Upcoming Publications by Terry Pratchett 22 Oct 2015: expected release of The Compleat Discworld Atlas Thursday 27th August 2015: Release of the final Discworld Novel The Shepherd's Crown. 15 June 2015: the anticipated release date for the fourth book in the Long Earth series, The Long Utopia 20th February 2015: The Rince Cycle, a theatrical adaptation starring Rincewind and based on the early Discworld novels, by Stephen Briggs and Terry Pratchett. 9 Oct 2014: Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook, a guide to railway travel around the Sto Plains, was released. 24 Sep 2014: A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction Writings was released. 11 Sep 2014: Dragons At Crumbling Castle, a collection of short stories for children (and their grandparents) was released. 19 Jun 2014: The Long Mars, the third in the SF series co-written with Stephen Baxter was released. 18th Nov 2013: A musical version of Wintersmith is to be released, based on old and original English folk music, performed by Maddy Prior and Steeleye Span (of Two Magicians fame - see Equal Rites) 7 Nov 2013: Raising Steam, the 40th book in the Discworld series, released. The Disc's first train comes steaming into town. Radio:- In December 2014, BBC Radio Four is to broadcast an adaptation of Good Omens in six parts, culminating in the Amageddon which will happen on one hour on Christmas Day. Be sure to eat your Christmas dinner and open your presents first. Television:- In Feb. 2009. Terry has broadcast two one-hour documentaries for the BBC in which a production team shadows him for a year while he lives with the awareness of his Alzheimers' Disease and its implications. Previous releases:- Television series of Johnny and the Bomb TV film of Hogfather, December 2006. TV film of The Colour of Magic, Easter 2008. TV production of Going Postal, May 2010 Did you know that ... ... the motto carved above the doors of Unseen University means Now you see it, now you don't? ... there are only six references to Harry Potter on this entire Wiki? ... Sto Lat is a Polish song, the expression meaning "may you live a hundred years"? ... someone has actually made a Discworld cake? ... the article Multiple exclamation marks has attracted more than 50,000 views?!!! And that was on the old Wiki: even allowing for the shiny new-ness of this new home, "M.E.M." has attracted over 36,000 viewings while many popular characters and books haven't reached 10,000. What is it about this page? A picture says more than a thousand words... If you have any artwork to contribute, go to the Upload page. As with all content, make sure you are allowed to post the image here. If you're not the copyright holder, check the license and whether it's compatible with the license used on this site. The upload link can also be found in the Toolbox in the left sidebar.

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