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External links

Newsgroups

Publishers' Websites

  • Terry Pratchett - Bibliography, forums and features from Verlagsgruppe Random House / Doubleday / etc.
  • Terry Pratchett Books - A very active forum with members from around the world. Main page also includes current news and information about the books and Terry Pratchett. (HarperCollins)

Blogs and Discussion

Conventions

  • DWCon - the International Discworld Convention, held in the UK (1996, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014. 2016, 2018, 2022, 2024, 2026)
  • Die Scheibenwelt Convention - the German Discworld Convention (2007, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2023, 2025)
  • AusDWCon - the Australian Discworld Convention, "Nullus Anxietas" (2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2024, 2026)
  • IDWCon - the Irish Discworld Convention (2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025)
  • NADWCON - the North American Discworld Convention (2009, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2019; website no longer available)
  • Dutch DWCon - "Cabbagecon", the Dutch Discworld Convention (2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2022, 2024; website no longer avaiable)
  • The Ineffable Con - Good Omens fan convention (2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025); also run smaller events
  • Llamedos Holiday Camp - a Welsh Discworld event (2020, 2022, 2024, 2026)

National Sites

Peripherals

Forums

Mastodon server

Wikis

Podcasts

Moved to their own page: Podcasts.

Teaching Guides

Criticism, biography, commentary

See also

  • Fan fiction
  • TV tropes - a really neat and entertaining site discussing the recurring "tropes", ie literary shortcuts, stereotypes and literary conventions present in TV, literature and art. A lot of space is given over to Pratchett's work, detailing how the tropes, those conventions, hooks and short-cuts present in the universal consciousness of all creative writers, work in the Discworld.

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