Terry Pratchett

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Terry Pratchett (2012)

Sir Terence David John Pratchett , OBE (*  28. April 1948 in Beaconsfield , Buckinghamshire , † 12. March 2015 in Broad Chalke , Wiltshire ) was a British Fantasy - writer . His most famous works are his Discworld novels , which have been translated into 37 languages. Around 85 million of his books have been sold worldwide.

Life

Terry Pratchett's coat of arms , issued by the College of Arms , with the motto Noli timere messorem (“Don't fear the Grim Reaper”).

Terry Pratchett published his first work when he was 13 years old. It was the short story The Hades Business , which was first published in the school newspaper and later in Science Fantasy Magazine .

After leaving school in 1965, Pratchett began training as a journalist with a local newspaper that same year. During his work as a journalist, in an interview with Peter Bander van Duren, a director of a small publishing house, he mentioned that he had also written a novel: The Carpet Peoples .

Pratchett was married to Lyn Marian Purves since 1968; her daughter Rhianna (* 1976) is also a writer.

In 1980 Pratchett became press spokesman for the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB). The CEGB was a state-owned company in Great Britain that regulated the distribution of electricity production across different generation methods. When it became clear that he could make a living from his books, Pratchett quit his work at the CEGB in 1987 and published about two novels a year from then on. In 2003 he was the most successful author in Great Britain after Joanne K. Rowling .

In December 2007, Pratchett announced that he had been diagnosed with a very rare, early-onset form of Alzheimer's disease . Pratchett spoke about the disease on March 13, 2008 in an interview on the BBC radio program Today Program . According to his own statement, he has given up his driver's license and has had difficulty typing, which is why he has been writing his texts with the help of speech recognition software ever since. Pratchett donated a million dollars to the Alzheimer Research Trust and criticized the fact that too little funds are allocated to research into dementias. "I would eat the bum of a dead mole if that helped," he said. In this context he also spoke out in favor of euthanasia . Pratchett led a campaign against the euthanasia ban in Britain. He produced a BBC documentary in which he accompanied two people to suicide in Switzerland. Neil Gaiman said during a lecture that Pratchett had pills for suicide in his vault, so that if in doubt he could have decided for himself when he would die.

Terry Pratchett at a reading in the Bouvier bookstore in Koblenz (2000)

In 1998 Pratchett was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). On 18 February 2009 he was honored for his services to literature from the Queen to Knight Bachelor beaten and allowed to since Sir Terry Pratchett call. On April 28, 2010 it was given its own coat of arms by the Clarenceux King of Arms . This includes an ankh and a Morpork owl , which are taken from the coat of arms of the city of Ankh-Morpork, the scene of many of his works, and the motto "Noli timere Messorem" ("Don't fear the Grim Reaper", an allusion to the song (Don't Fear) The Reaper by Blue Öyster Cult and to the sympathetic nature of the character "Death", who plays a leading role in many disc world novels). In 2004 he received the Locus Award for the first time , and in 2011 the Karl Edward Wagner Special Award . In 2011 he also received the American Library Association's Margaret A. Edwards Award for Great Service in Youth Literature.

Pratchett died on March 12, 2015, at the age of 66 on his estate in Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, of posterior cortical atrophy (PKA, also known as Benson's syndrome), a neurodegenerative disease very similar to Alzheimer's disease.

One of his fans responded to the news of his death with a petition on Change.org demanding that the death return Terry Pratchett. It was signed by over 25,000 fans within two days. Operators of various Internet servers add additional header lines to the outgoing data of their servers to commemorate Pratchett - and based on a form of commemoration presented in Ab die Post .

Literary

Besides Pratchett's very own style of writing, in particular by its genreunüblichen in the fantasy literature Humor through to persiflage , some of his books are characterized by the exuberant partly using footnotes from. The Dutch translation of Good Omens , which Pratchett co-authored with Neil Gaiman , begins with an ironic preface by the translator in which he assures that no additional footnotes have been included to clear up any ambiguity - supplemented with footnotes to clarify Omen and Crowley.

With a few exceptions, Pratchett's works are not divided into chapters. In an interview he justified this with the fact that life also usually does not take place in chapters and, apart from their use in children's books, he could not see any purpose of chapters. Accordingly, Pratchett's youth books in particular contain chapters, but also the novels about the character Feucht von Lipwig. Here, however, they fulfill a function that goes beyond the mere structure of the text: Each chapter begins with a whole series of headings that anticipate parts of the content and can thus evoke certain expectations.

Pratchett's books find an echo that is rather unusual for this genre. A collection of essays on his work can be found in Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature , edited by Andrew M. Butler, Edward James, and Farah Mendlesohn ; a German study, "The Turtle Moves!" by Johannes Rüster, deals with cosmological and theological questions in the disc world novels. Two other books are worth noting, both compiled by David Langford , namely The Unseen University Challenge and The Wyrdest Link .

Discworld novels

Autograph with personal dedication

Terry Pratchett owed his worldwide fame and large fan base to his Discworld novels , which appeared in 1983 . The stories in this series of novels are set on the “disc world”, which is flat and carried by four elephants, which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle that is “rowing” through space.

The Discworld stories are not just classic fantasy novels set in a fictional world - they parody classic fantasy and science fiction motifs as well as everyday life themes such as rock 'n' Roll , films, press credibility, religion, philosophy, economics, Chinese and Egyptian history, politics (e.g. forms of government), war and much more.

Well-preserved first editions of Pratchett's early disc world novels are very valuable within the fan base: The hardcover first edition of The Color of Magic is currently  worth more than £ 2000. A total of 4500 copies were printed, 506 of which were sold in the UK. The Light Fantastic is priced at £ 1000-1500. Josh Kirby designed the covers of all disc world novels sold in the UK up to 2001 . After Kirby's death, Paul Kidby , who had previously done Discworld illustrations, took over the cover design of the British editions. Some of the cover designs with color variations were also used for the German-language editions.

Pratchett was often respectfully called Pterry in his fan circle , a tribute to the silent P of the characters (such as Pteppic ) in the novel Pyramiden , which in turn alludes to Ptolemaios , the Greek name of various Hellenistic pharaohs, and on top of that a link (of the initial) his surname with his first name.

Pratchett had a keen interest in orangutans . This was not limited to the striking figure of the librarian in his Discworld novels, one of his most popular characters. He also worked for the Orangutan Foundation , for example visiting Borneo with a Channel 4 film crew to shoot an episode of Jungle Quest that shows orangutans in their natural habitat. Following Pratchett's good example, fan events such as the Discworld Convention have made the Orangutan Foundation their concern. Whenever Pratchett attended such meetings, there was always an auction at which fans could bid for their name in the next disc world novel. All proceeds went directly to the Orangutan Foundation.

Works

Discworld

Terry Pratchett (Netherlands, April 2005)

List of Discworld novels

Other works

Strata or the Flat World (1983)

Novels

  • Alarm in the carpet kingdom . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau / Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-7941-0142-1 (British English: The Carpet People . Translated by Käthe Recheis , republished by Heyne in 1994 as Die Teppichvölker , translated by Andreas Brandhorst ).
  • The dark side of the sun. Science fiction novel . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-442-23254-6 (British English: The Dark Side of the Sun. Translated by Tony Westermayr, republished by Heyne in 1989 as The Dark Side of the Sun , translated by Andreas Brandhorst).
  • Strata or the flat world. Science fiction novel . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-442-23434-4 (American English: Strata . Translated by Heinz Zwack, republished by Heyne in 1992 as Strata , translated by Andreas Brandhorst).
  • A good omen. The kind and true prophecies of the witch Agnes Spinner . Rogner & Bernhard, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-8077-0247-4 (British English: Good Omens . Translated by Andreas Brandhorst, with Neil Gaiman ).
  • One island . Manhattan, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-442-54655-8 (British English: Nation . Translated by Peder Brehnkmann).
  • Dark rascals . Piper Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-492-70301-7 (British English: Dodger . Translated by Andreas Brandhorst).

Rows

  1. Truckers . Heyne Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-453-06263-9 (British English: Truckers . Translated by Andreas Brandhorst).
  2. Burrower . Heyne Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-453-06264-7 (British English: Diggers . Translated by Andreas Brandhorst).
  3. Wing . Heyne Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-453-06265-5 (British English: Wings . Translated by Andreas Brandhorst).
  • The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy:
  1. Only you can save humanity . Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-570-12075-9 (British English: Only You Can Save Mankind . Translated by Sabine Schmidt).
  2. Only you can understand . Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-570-12113-5 (British English: Johnny and the Dead . Translated by Emily Pichelsteiner).
  3. Only you have the key . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-442-43817-9 (British English: Johnny and the Bomb . Translated by Regina Winter).
  • Discworld Scholars:
  1. The scholars of the Discworld . Piper Verlag, Munich / Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-492-28521-X (British English: The Science of Discworld . Translated by Andreas Brandhorst and Erik Simon , with Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen ).
  2. The philosophers of the round world. More from Discworld Scholars . Piper Verlag, Munich / Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-492-28522-8 (British English: The Science of Discworld II: The Globe . Translated by Andreas Brandhorst and Erik Simon, with Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen).
  3. Darwin and the gods of the Discworld . Piper Verlag, Munich / Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-492-26593-6 (British English: The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch . Translated by Andreas Brandhorst and Erik Simon, with Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen).
  4. The Last Judgement. The Science of Discworld 4 . Piper Verlag, Munich / Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-492-26946-9 (British English: The Science of Discworld IV: Judgment Day . Translated by Andreas Brandhorst and Erik Simon, with Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen).
  • Long Earth:
  1. The long earth . Random House, 2013, ISBN 978-3-641-10228-9 (British English: The Long Earth . Translated by Gerald Jung, with Stephen Baxter ).
  2. The long war . Manhattan, 2015, ISBN 978-3-442-54728-9 (British English: The Long War . Translated by Gerald Jung, with Stephen Baxter).
  3. Long Mars . Manhattan, 2015, ISBN 978-3-442-54761-6 (British English: The Long Mars . Translated by Gerald Jung, with Stephen Baxter).
  4. The long utopia . Manhattan, 2016, ISBN 978-3-442-54776-0 (British English: The Long Utopia . Translated by Gerald Jung, with Stephen Baxter).
  5. The long cosmos . Random House, 2017, ISBN 978-3-442-20537-0 (British English: The Long Cosmos . Translated by Gerald Jung, with Stephen Baxter).

Stories and a.

  • Real cats never wear bows . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-426-02792-5 (British English: The Unadulterated Cat . Translated by Sonja Hauser, republished by Goldmann in 2005 as The common house cat ).
  • All the madness. Stories . Piper Verlag, Munich / Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-70155-6 (British English: Once More * With Footnotes . Translated by Andreas Brandhorst).
  • Jack Dodgers London Guide . Piper Verlag, Munich / Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-492-70331-4 (British English: Dodger's Guide to London . Translated by Andreas Brandhorst).
  • Swirling dragons and other stories from the creator of the Discworld . ivᴉ, Munich / Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-70347-5 (British English: Dragons at Crumbling Castle . Translated by Andreas Brandhorst).
  • Big words . Piper, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-492-70499-1 (British English: A Blink of the Screen. Collected Shorter Fiction . Translated by Andreas Brandhorst).

Movies

  • Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die (2011), BBC documentary on active euthanasia

Adaptations

comics

Film adaptations

Feature films

Series

Animation films

  • Truckers. ( Noun trilogy 1) UK 1992, directed by Jackie Cockle, Chris Taylor & Francis Vose, 13 episodes of approx. 11 min each , stop motion and film cut.
  • Welcome to the Discworld. ( Discworld 11) UK 1996, 8 min, animation (fragment of the unfinished film Reaper Man , with Christopher Lee and others).
  • Soul music. (Discworld 16) UK 1997, director: Jean Flynn, 2 h 52 min, animation (with Christopher Lee and others).
  • Wyrd Sisters. (Discworld 6) UK 1997, director: Jean Flynn, 2 h 20 min, animation (with Christopher Lee and others).

Radio plays

Audio books

Discworld novels

  • The light of the imagination. ( Scheibenwelt 2) Heyne Verlag 1999, read by Sebastian Krumbiegel , 3 CDs, 3 h 47 min, ISBN 978-3-453-16589-2 .
    • also available unabridged as download, Random House Audio 2013, read by Volker Niederfahrenhorst, 9 h 8 min.
  • The fifth elephant. (Scheibenwelt 24) Random House Audio 2000, read by Dirk Bach , 3 CDs, 3 h 49 min, ISBN 978-3-89830-126-8 .
    • also available as a download in full, 2011, read by Michael-Che Koch , 14 h 54 min.
  • The whole truth. (Scheibenwelt 25) Random House Audio 2001, read by Dirk Bach, 3 CDs, 3 h 57 min, ISBN 978-3-89830-275-3 .
    • also available as a full download, 2011, read by Michael-Che Koch, 13 h 12 min.
  • The time thief. (Discworld 26) Random House Audio 2002, read by Dirk Bach, 3 CDs, 3 h 30 min, ISBN 978-3-89830-419-1 .
    • also available as a download in full, 2012, read by Michael-Che Koch, 12 h 33 min.
  • The night watchman. (Discworld 29) Random House Audio 2003, read by Peer Augustinski , 3 CDs, 3 h 50 min, ISBN 978-3-89830-608-9 .
    • also available as a download in full, 2012, read by Michael-Che Koch, 14 h 3 min.
  • Let's go. (Discworld 33) Random House Audio 2005, read by Peer Augustinski, 4 CDs, 4 h 40 min, ISBN 978-3-86604-036-6 .
    • also available as a download in full, 2013, read by Michael-Che Koch, 15 h 16 min.
  • Little free men. (Discworld 30) Random House Audio 2006, read by Boris Aljinovic , 4 CDs, 4 h 40 min, ISBN 978-3-86604-094-6 .
    • also available as a full download, 2013, read by Michael-Che Koch, 9 h 9 min.
  • A hat full of stars. (Discworld 32) Random House Audio 2006, read by Boris Aljinovic, 4 CDs, 4 h 40 min, ISBN 978-3-86604-095-3 .
    • also available as a download in full, 2014, read by Michael-Che Koch, 10 h 7 min.
  • Clone! (Discworld 34) Random House Audio 2006, read by Boris Aljinovic, 4 CDs, 4 h 23 min, ISBN 978-3-86604-331-2 .
    • also available as a download in full, 2012, read by Michael-Che Koch, 13 h 54 min.
  • All scythe! (Discworld 11) Schall & Wahn 2007, read by Rufus Beck , 5 CDs, 6 h 20 min, ISBN 978-3-86604-720-4 .
    • also available unabridged as a download, 2011, read by Volker Niederfahrenhorst, 10 h 35 min.
  • Rolling Stones. (Discworld 16) Random House Audio 2007, read by Rufus Beck, 6 CDs, 7 hours, ISBN 978-3-86604-574-3 .
    • also available unabridged for download, 2012, read by Michael-Che Koch, 12 h 46 min.
  • Pig gallop. (Discworld 20) Schall & Wahn 2007, read by Rufus Beck, 6 CDs, 7 h 20 min, ISBN 978-3-86604-721-1 .
    • also available as a download in full, 2011, read by Volker Niederfahrenhorst, 12 h 51 min.
  • The winter smith. (Discworld 35) Random House Audio 2007, read by Boris Aljinovic, 5 CDs, 6 h 20 min, ISBN 978-3-86604-493-7 .
    • also available as a full download, 2014, read by Michael-Che Koch, 11 h 32 min.
  • Nice bills. (Discworld 36) Random House Audio 2007, read by Boris Aljinovic, 5 CDs, 6 h 7 min, ISBN 978-3-86604-691-7 .
    • also available unabridged as download, 2013, read by Michael-Che Koch, 15 h 1 min.
  • Totally bewitched. (Scheibenwelt 12) Schall & Wahn 2008, read by Katharina Thalbach , 6 CDs, 7 h 15 min, ISBN 978-3-86604-858-4 .
    • also available as a download in full, 2018, read by Annette Frier, 10 h 37 min.
  • Bright bards. (Discworld 15) Schall & Wahn 2008, read by Rufus Beck, 6 CDs, 6 h 50 min, ISBN 978-3-86604-861-4 .
    • also available unabridged as download, 2015, read by Volker Niederfahrenhorst, 13 h 11 min.
  • Mummery. (Scheibenwelt 18) Schall & Wahn 2008, read by Katharina Thalbach, 5 CDs, 5 h 50 min, ISBN 978-3-86604-941-3 .
  • Hot hops. (Discworld 22) Schall & Wahn 2009, read by Rufus Beck, 3 CDs, 3 h 55 min, ISBN 978-3-8371-0039-6 .
  • Keep calm! (Scheibenwelt 23) Schall & Wahn 2010, read by Katharina Thalbach, 6 CDs, 7 hours, ISBN 978-3-8371-0313-7 .
  • The Invisible Scholars Club. (Discworld 37) Random House Audio 2010, read by Boris Aljinovic, 6 CDs, 7 h 11 min, ISBN 978-3-8371-0402-8 .
  • Hollow heads. (Discworld 19) Schall & Wahn 2011, read by Rufus Beck, 6 CDs, 7 h 50 min, ISBN 978-3-8371-0787-6 .
    • also available unabridged as a download, 12 h 30 min.
  • The midnight dress. (Discworld 38) Random House Audio 2011, read by Boris Aljinovic, 4 CDs, 5 h 18 min, ISBN 978-3-8371-0818-7 .
    • also available unabridged as a download, read by Michael-Che Koch, 13 h 17 min.
  • The Grim Reaper. (Scheibenwelt 4) Schall & Wahn 2012, read in full by Volker Niederfahrenhorst, 10 h 21 min, only available as a download.
  • MacBest. (Discworld 6) Schall & Wahn 2012, read by Katharina Thalbach, 6 CDs, 7 h 50 min, ISBN 978-3-8371-1576-5 .
    • also available as a download in full, 11 h 39 min.
  • Guards! Guards! (Discworld 8) Schall & Wahn 2012, read in full by Stefan Kaminski , 13 h 31 min, only available as a download.
  • Lords and Ladies. (Scheibenwelt 14) Schall & Wahn 2012, read by Katharina Thalbach, 6 CDs, 7 h 50 min, ISBN 978-3-8371-1327-3 .
    • also available unabridged as a download, 12 h 22 min.
  • Stiff pinch. (Scheibenwelt 39) Der Hörverlag 2012, read in full by Jens Wawrczeck , 2 MP3 CDs, 15 h 40 min, ISBN 978-3-86717-884-6 .
  • The colors of magic. (Discworld 1) Schall & Wahn 2013, read in full by Volker Niederfahrenhorst, 7 CDs, 8 h 30 min, ISBN 978-3-8371-2069-1 .
  • The magic hat. (Discworld 5) Schall & Wahn 2014, read in full by Volker Niederfahrenhorst, 9 CDs, 12 h 30 min, ISBN 978-3-8371-2263-3 .
  • Simply divine. (Scheibenwelt 13) Der Hörverlag 2014, read in full by Jens Wawrczeck, 12 h 11 min, only available as a download.
  • Great steam ahead. (Scheibenwelt 40) Der Hörverlag 2014, read in full by Jens Wawrczeck, 2 MP3 CDs, 16 h 26 min, ISBN 978-3-8445-1530-5 .
  • Really magical. (Scheibenwelt 17) Schall & Wahn 2015, read in full by Volker Niederfahrenhorst, 8 CDs, 12 hrs, ISBN 978-3-8371-2746-1 .
  • The shepherd's crown. (Scheibenwelt 41) Der Hörverlag 2015, read in full by Volker Niederfahrenhorst, 1 MP3-CD, 10 h 47 min, ISBN 978-3-8445-2062-0 .
  • Fully in the picture. (Scheibenwelt 10) Random House Audio 2018, unabridged by Volker Niederfahrenhorst, 13 h 29 min, only available as a download, ISBN 978-3-8445-3204-3 .
  • Women regiment. (Scheibenwelt 31) Schall & Wahn 2018, read abbreviated by Volker Niederfahrenhorst, 2 MP3-CD, 11 h 40 min, ISBN 978-3-8371-4205-1 .
    • also available unabridged as a download, 15 h 24 min.

Other novels

  • Truckers. (Noun trilogy 1) Patmos 2006, read in full by Rufus Beck, 5 CDs, 6 h 25 min, ISBN 978-3-491-91208-3 .
  • Burrower. (Noun trilogy 2) Patmos 2007, read in full by Rufus Beck, 4 CDs, 5 h 9 min, ISBN 978-3-491-91218-2 .
  • Wing. (Noun trilogy 3) Patmos 2007, read in full by Rufus Beck, 4 CDs, 5 h 35 min, ISBN 978-3-491-91219-9 .
    • also available as a complete edition: The Nomen Trilogy. Schall & Wahn 2012, read in full by Rufus Beck, 14 CDs, 17 h 10 min, ISBN 978-3-8371-1578-9 .
  • An island. Random House Audio 2009, read by Stefan Kaminski, 4 CDs, 4 h 40 min, ISBN 978-3-86604-978-9 .
    • also available unabridged as a download, 12 h 5 min.
  • with Stephen Baxter: Long Earth. (Lange Erde 1) Der Hörverlag 2013, read in full by Jens Wawrczeck, 2 MP3 CDs, 12 h 49 min, ISBN 978-3-8445-1183-3 .
  • with Stephen Baxter: The Long War. (Lange Erde 2) Der Hörverlag 2015, read in full by Volker Niederfahrenhorst, 2 MP3-CDs, 16 h 6 min, ISBN 978-3-8445-1814-6 .
  • with Stephen Baxter: Long Mars. (Lange Erde 3) Der Hörverlag 2015, read in full by Volker Niederfahrenhorst, 2 MP3-CDs, 14 h 6 min, ISBN 978-3-8445-1936-5 .
  • with Stephen Baxter: The Long Utopia. (Lange Erde 4) Der Hörverlag 2016, read in full by Volker Niederfahrenhorst, 2 MP3 CDs, 13 h 52 min, ISBN 978-3-8445-2312-6 .
  • with Stephen Baxter: The Long Cosmos. (Lange Erde 5) Der Hörverlag 2017, read in full by Volker Niederfahrenhorst, 2 MP3 CDs, 14 h 31 min, ISBN 978-3-8445-2811-4 .
  • The carpet peoples. The Hörverlag 2015, read in full by Volker Niederfahrenhorst, 7 h 39 min, only available as a download.
  • Dark rascals. OSTERWOLDaudio 2015, read in full by Stefan Kaminski, 2 MP3 CDs, 11 h 27 min, ISBN 978-3-86952-255-5 .

Stories and a.

  • Dangerous antics and other narratives. The Hörverlag 2006, read by Christian Tramitz , 1 CD, 1 h 8 min, ISBN 978-3-86717-013-0 .
  • Swirling dragons and other stories from the creator of Discworld. OSTERWOLDaudio 2015, read in full by Stefan Kaminski, 4 CDs, 4 hours, ISBN 978-3-86952-260-9 .
  • Mrs. Bradshaw's most useful handbook for all routes on the Ankh-Morpork and Sto Plain Hygienic Railroad. The Hörverlag 2015, read in full by Hildegard Meier and Volker Niederfahrenhorst, 2 h 56 min, only available as a download.

Awards (excerpt)

Web links

Commons : Terry Pratchett  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Wikiquote: Terry Pratchett  - Quotes

Interviews

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ To Embuggerance . ( Memento from April 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) paulkidby.com, February 13, 2008
  3. ↑ BBC: Pratchett funds Alzheimer's study. , March 13, 2008
  4. ^ Sir Terry Pratchett calls for euthanasia tribunals. In: The Guardian . February 1, 2010, accessed March 6, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Peter Mühlbauer: Death without a "Teutonic" accent. In: Telepolis. June 16, 2011, accessed June 16, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Lecture: Neil Gaiman on how stories last. , At around 1:35:00 am, Gaiman starts talking about Pratchett.
  7. ↑ Autorenportrait on harpercollins.com, accessed on March 4, 2013
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  10. ↑ Knights and Dames at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
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Books by Terry Pratchett


The colors of magic (1983, German 1985) • The light of fantasy (1986, German 1989) • The legacy of the magician (1987, German 1989) • Grim Reaper (1987, German 1990) • The Magic Hat (1988 , Ger. 1990) • MacBest (1988, Ger. 1992) • Pyramiden (1989, Ger. 1991) • Wachen! Guards! (1989, German 1991) • Faust Eric (1990, German 1992) • Full in the picture (1990, German 1993) • Alles Sense (1991, German 1994) • Totally bewitched (1991, German 1994) • Simple divine (1992, German 1995) • Lords and Ladies (1992, German 1995) • Helle Barden (1993, German 1996) • Rolling Stones (1994, German 1996) • Really magical (1994, German 1996) • Mummenschanz (1994, German 1997) • Hollow heads (1996, German 1998) • Schweinsgalopp (1996, German 1998) • Flying scraps (1997, German 1999) • Hot hops (1998, German 1999) • Calm blood (1998, German 2000) • The Fifth Elephant (1999, German 2000) • The Full Truth (2000, German 2001) • The Time Thief (2001, German 2002) • Wahre Helden (2001, German 2001) • Maurice, der Kater (2001, German 2004) • The Night Watchmen (2002, German 2003) • Little Free Men (2003, German 2005) • Women's Regiment (2003, German 2004) • A hat full of stars (2004, German2005). 2006) • Off the Post (2004, German 2005) • Klonk! (2005, German 2006) • The winter smith (2006, German 2007) • Schöne Scheine (2007, German 2007) • The Club of Invisible Scholars (2009, German 2009) • The Midnight Dress (2010, German 2011) • Stiff pinch (2011, German 2012) • Great steam ahead (2013, German 2014) • Die Krone des Schäfers (2015, German 2015)

Scholarly Fiction
(with Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen )

The Scholars of the Disc World (1999, German 2004) • The Philosophers of the Round World. More from the scholars of the Discworld (2002, German 2004) • Darwin and the Gods of the Discworld (2005, German 2006) • The Last Judgment. The Science of Discworld 4 (2013, German 2013)

Other books

The Disc World from A – Z (with Stephen Briggs ; 1994, German 1996) • The Disc World Album (1996, German 2001) • GURPS Disc World (with Phil Masters ; 1998, German 1999) • Nanny Oggs Cookbook (1999, German 2001) . 2001) • GURPS Discworld Also (with Phil Masters ; 2001) • The Art of Discworld (2004, German 2006) • Where's my Cow (2005) • Wit and Wisdom of Discworld (2007, German 2010) • Myths and legends the Discworld (with Jacqueline Simpson ; 2008, German 2009) • The World of Poo (2012) • Fools, Thieves and Vampires - The best of ten years of Discworld calendars (with Stephen Briggs ; 2012, German 2012)

Discworld maps

The Streets of Ankh-Morpork - A Discworld Map (1993; Ger. 1996) • The Discworld Mapp (1995) • A Tourist Guide to Lancre - A Discworld Mapp (1998) • Death's Domain - A Discworld Mapp (1999) • More complete and indispensable Ankh-Morpork city guide (2012, German 2013) • Mrs. Bradshaw's most useful handbook for all routes of the Hygienic Railway Ankh-Morpork and Sto Plain (2014, German 2015)

Trucker (1989, German 1992) • Wühler (1990, German 1992) • Wing (1990, German 1992)

The Johnny Maxwell trilogy

Only you can save humanity (1992, German 1994) • Only you can understand it (1993, German 1995) • Only you have the key (1996, German 1997)

Long Earth
(with Stephen Baxter )

The Long Earth (2012, German 2013) • The Long War (2013, German 2015) • The Long Mars (2014, German 2015) • The Long Utopia (2015, German 2016) • The Long Cosmos (2016, German 2017)

Standalone novels

The Carpet Peoples (1971, German 1972) • The dark side of the sun (1976, German 1977) • Strata (1981, German 1992) • The common house cat (1989, German 1991) • A good omen. The friendly and accurate prophecies of the witch Agnes Spinner (with Neil Gaiman ; 1990, German 1991) • An Island (2008, German 2009) • Dark Scoundrels (2012, German 2013) • Jack Dodger's London Guide (2013; German 2009) 2014)

Short story collections

The whole madness (2004, German 2007) • Big words (2012, German 2018) • Twisted dragon (2014, German 2015) • The vacuum-sucking fright screw (2016, German 2018)

personal data
SURNAME Pratchett, Terry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pratchett, Terence David John (full name); Pterry (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British fantasy writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Beaconsfield , Buckinghamshire
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2015
Place of death Broad Chalke , Wiltshire