[R] Terry Pratchett Bibliography #1/2 [FAQ]
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TERRY PRATCHETT BIBLIOGRAPHY part one
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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 &c.). blurbs to the first uk
(& commonwealth) hardcover & paperback editions of each are given,
by way of introduction.
in #2, information is given on his shorter fiction, together with
books and maps of associational interest; and on "forn language"
editions, where this is known to me.
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in this, part one of the bibliography:
1. The Discworld Series
note on uk & merkin discworld novel editions' cover artists
1.1 The Colour of Magic [merkin mmp/b re-publication 3/00]
1.2 The Light Fantastic [merkin mmp/b re-publication 3/00]
1.3 Equal Rites [merkin mmp/b re-publication 3/00]
1.4 Mort
1.5 Sourcery
1.6 Wyrd Sisters
1.7 Pyramids
1.8 Guards! Guards!
1.9 Eric
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 [uk p/b scheduled 2/11/00]
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 [uk h/cvr scheduled 2/11/00; on-sale in iceland 8/00]
1.31 The Rincewind Trilogy (Omnibus [?of 1.5, 1.9 & 1.18?])
1.32 The Thief of Time [h/cvr scheduled for 5/01]
1.33 The Last Hero [working title] (believed to be the next-but-two disc-
world novel) [to be highly illustrated by paul kidby, as i understand it]
1.34 [nothing yet advised]
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in part 2 of the bibliography, q.v:
2. Non-Series Novels
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
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. Translations
6.1 Dutch
6.2 Finnish
6.3 French
6.4 German
6.5 Greek [? four discworld books so far ?] [no information]
6.6 Israeli
6.7 Italian
6.8 Norwegian
6.9 Polish
6.10 Spanish
6.11 Swedish
7. Miscellany
7.1 Short Stories [their original publication, and subsequent reprints].
7.2 Truckers [Picture Book based on the Cosgrove Hall animated cartoon]
7.3 Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic - The Graphic Novel
7.4 Terry Pratchett's The Light Fantastic [graphic novel]
7.5 Mort: A Discworld Big Comic [graphic novel]
7.6 Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters - The Play
7.7 Terry Pratchett's Mort - The Play
7.8 Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards! - The Play
7.9 Terry Pratchett's Men at Arms - The Play
7.10 Soul Music: The Illustrated Screenplay
7.11 GURPS Discworld [fantasy role-playing game]
7.12 Wyrd Sisters: The Illustrated Screenplay
7.13 Terry Pratchett's Maskerade - The Play
7.14 Terry Pratchett's - The Play [scheduled 11/99]
7.15 Guards! Guards! [graphic novel] [scheduled 16/11/00]
7a. Discworld "Non-Fiction" & Art Books
7a.1 The Fantasy Art of Josh Kirby (Josh Kirby) [art book]
7a.2 In The Gardens of Unearthly Delights (Josh Kirby) [art book]
7a.3 The Josh Kirby Portfolio (Josh Kirby) [art book]
7a.4 The Streets of Ankh Morpork (Stephen Briggs, with Terry) [map]
7a.5 The Discworld Companion (Stephen Briggs, with Terry) [encyclopedia]
7a.5u The Discworld Companion updated edition (Stephen Briggs, with Terry)
7a.6 The Discworld Mapp (Stephen Briggs, with Terry) [map]
7a.7 Terry Pratchett's Discworld - The Official Strategy Guide
(Glenn Edridge) [computer game guidebook]
7a.7a Unseen University Challenge (David Langford) [quizbook]
7a.9 The Pratchett Portfolio (Paul Kidby + Terry) [art book]
7a.10 Terry Pratchett's Discworld II - Missing Presumed...!?
The Official Strategy Guide (Paul Kidd) [computer game guidebook]
7a.11 Discworld Unseen University Diary 1998 (CMOT Briggs, Terry & Paul Kidby)
7a.12 A Tourist Guide to Lancre [tourist's and walker's guide, plus map]
7a.13 Terry Pratchett Discworld Colllector's Edition 1999 Calendar
7a.14 Discworld's Ankh-Morpork City Watch Diary 1999
7a.15 Terry Pratchett Discworld Collector's Edition 1999 Day-to-Day Calendar
7a.16 Death's Domain [the fourth discworld map]
7a.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.
7a.18 Discworld's Assassins' Guild Diary 2000
7a.19 The Terry Pratchett 2000 DISCWORLD Collector's Edition Calendar
7a.20 The Terry Pratchett's 2000 DISCWORLD Colllector's Edition
[Mini] Calendar (small format reissue of 7a.13)
7a.21 Terry Pratchett's DISCWORLD Collector's Edition 2000 Day-to-Day Calendar
7a.22 Nanny Ogg's Cookbook [p/b scheduled 11/00]
7a.23 A Cosmic Cornucopia (Josh Kirby) [art book]
7a.24 Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature [criticism (essays)]
7a.25 Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collector's Edition 2001 Calendar
7a.26 Discworld Fools' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2001
7a.27 Discworld Encyclopedia (CMOT Briggs, Terry) [h/cvr scheduled 10/00]
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in both parts one and two 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.
9.4 Note on book formats.
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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
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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 has graced (or disgraced
<g>) the covers of the uk editions of the Discworld books ever since -
with one exception: Transworld tested a "serious" cover 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 lit-
erature, by visibly non-serious cover art. the attempt was not entirely
successful, and has not been repeated - or even reprinted.
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).
the Signet/Roc mmp/bs of _The Colour of Magic_ _The Light Fantastic_,
_Equal Rights_ and _Mort_ use 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. [Avon's Eos' policy's nyk.]
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1.1 The Colour of Magic
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Colour of Magic
%I Colin Smythe (h/cvr) (cvr 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
%I Corgi (p/b)
%D 1985 [re-set, c.1993/4 i think. (ppint.)]
ISBN 0-552-12475-3
%I Colin Smythe (h/cvr) (+ intro by Terry; new cover art - by 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
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"]
%D 3/00
ISBN 0-06-......-.
1st edition h/cvr blurb (thank-you for the d-j, colin smythe :-) ):
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 bestselling
titles currently in print, every one of which has received rapt-
urous 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, Twoflower, his world's
first tourist, through a series of increasingly hazardous and out-
rageous adventures. Assisting Rincewind's rather inconsistent pow-
ers in protecting Twoflower 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 prin-
cesses 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]
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_.
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1.2 The Light Fantastic
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Light Fantastic
%I Colin Smythe (h/cvr) [distr. in merkia & canadadada 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
%I Signet [? Roc ?] (mmp/b)
%D nyk [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-451-16241-2
%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 penguin printing)
%D 6/98
ISBN 0-451-16241-2
there is also a large-print h/cvr edn:
%I Isis
%D nyk
ISBN nyk
%I HarperPrism
%D 3/00
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.
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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)
%D 9/88 [this edition now out of print]
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)
%D nyk [this edition now out of print]
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)
%D 4/98
ISBN 0-451-.....-. nyk
%I HarperPrism
%D 3/00
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 in-
herits 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 chauv-
inistic (not to say mysogynistic) 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_.
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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
%D 8/98 [scheduled]
ISBN 0-451-.....-. nyk
%I Isis [large-print h/cvr edn]
%D nyk
ISBN 1-85089-044-7
%I HarperCollins Eos?
%D ?/00 [scheduled by HarperPrism for 4/00: schedule altered]
ISBN 0-06-.....-. or 0-380-.....-.
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 accept-
ed. However, he soon found that romantic longings did not mix eas-
ily with the responsibilities of being Death's apprentice...
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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
ISBN 0-575-06409-9
%I Roc (mmp/b) (cover art darrel k. sweet)
%D 8/98
ISBN 0-451-.....-. nyk
%I HarperPrism or AvonEos (? liable to be retitled "Sorcery" ?)
%D 4/00 [scheduled by harper: schedule may be altered]
ISBN 0-06-......-. or 0-380-.....-.
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 adventure: Conina the
barbarian hairdresser, Nijel the Destroyer (whose mother still makes
him wear woolly underwear) and possibly 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 naturally,
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.
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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 [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
ISBN 0-575-06411-0
%I HarperPrism or AvonEos (let's hope it doesn't become "Weird", "Wierd"
%D 4/00 [scheduled by harper: schedule may be altered] or even "Wired")
ISBN 0-06-......-. or 0-380-.....-.
h/cvr blurb:
Kingdoms wobble, crowns topple and knives flash on the magical
Discworld as the statutory three witches meddle in royal politics.
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 record-
ed 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-regarded 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 ...
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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 12/89 [? or /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]
ISBN 0-451-.....-. nyk
h/cvr blurb:
It isn't easy, being a teenage pharoah. 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 crocodiles,
gods, marching mummies, jobbing pyramid builders and Hat, the Vult-
ure-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 ...
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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
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]
%D 5/97
ISBN 0-575-06485-4
%I Roc (mmp/b) (cover art darrel k. sweet)
%D 10/98 [scheduled]
ISBN 0-451-.....-. nyk
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 searching 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!
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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); both 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 impressiom 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 (f.cvr. adds embossed gold to terry's name, which is now in caps;
[and re- also resets "Faust", "Eric", "A Discworld Novel" - and even
prints] 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. find a vgsf copy.)
ISBN 0-575-60001-2 [this edition is now out of print, replaced by orion's
millennium imprint p/b, q.v.sub.]
%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
ISBN 0-451-45357-3
%I Orion Millennium [apparently not in associatiopn with Corgi books - ppint.]
%D 5/2000 [reverts to the earlier gollancz VGSF cover art, re-design
ISBN 1-85798-954-6 by courtesy of orion's art director, with all of the pre-
viously white background now coloured a deep, very, very
slightly pinkened sky blue... - oh, and the typography's
changed. again.]
[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 disappeared
into a well-hidden pocket of L-space, at some time after the appearance
of the 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 incom-
petent 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 meet-
ing 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.
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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
ISBN 0-575-06486-2
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 clichï¼´ 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!
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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
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...
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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
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."
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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
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...
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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 HarperCollins (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
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.
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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 tp/b [as per Harper advert.] ? h/cvr ? both ?)
%D 3/96
ISBN 0-06-109218-5 [i have this ref'ed as isbn of both h/cvr+tp/b editions]
%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 (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
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...
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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 2/95
ISBN 0-06-105203-5
%I HarperCollins Prism (mmp/b)
%D 10/95
ISBN 0-06-105489-5
%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 [delay from 5, then 6, then 8, then 9/99 by cassell's sale to orion]
ISBN 0-575-068..-. nyk
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.
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1.17 The Witches Trilogy
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Witches Trilogy
%I W.H.Smith (exclusive edition) (h/cvr)
%D 9/94
ISBN (not known: none may apply)
%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 now out of print (mid 1998) may be reprinting.]
ISBN 0-575-05896-X [no reprint seen as of 9/99.]
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 [sic] 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.
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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 (mmp/b)
%D 4/98
ISBN 0-06-105690-1
%I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) ["letterbox" design d-j]
%D 4/11/99 [delay from 5, then 6, then 8, then 9/99 by cassell's sale to orion]
[actually on sale by 22/10/99]
ISBN 0-575-06688-1
there is also a large-print h/cvr edn:
%I Isis
%D (not yet known)
ISBN (not yet known)
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.
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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 (mmp/b)
%D 10/98
ISBN 0-06-105691-X
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_...)
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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) [csm 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 (mmp/b) (cvr: michael sabanosh)
%D 10/97
ISBN 0-06-105764-9
h/cvr blurb:
Who's murdering harmless old men? who's poisoning the Patrician?
As autumn fogs hold Anhk-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 TENSIOM 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.
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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 (mmp/b) cvr by roger de muth
%D 10/99
ISBN 0-06-105905-6
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 decora-
tions, 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, otherwise
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 hang-
overs.
Worse still, _someone_ is coming down the chimney. This time he's
carrying a sack instead of a scythe, but there's something regret-
tably 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...
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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 (mmp/b)
%D 3/99
ISBN 0-06-105906-4 (cover art by michael sabanosh)
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, fishermen,
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 theat's just the
people on his side. The enemy mighht be even worse.
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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 3/3/99 in israel, the netherlands, switzerland]
ISBN 0-552-14614-5
%I HarperPrism or HarperTorch (mmp/b)
%D 3/00
ISBN 0-06-......-. or 0-380-.....-. (n.y.k.)
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 venemous. 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?
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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, in-
cluding 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 disturbing-
ly human characteristics: drinking, dice-playing and becoming cur-
ious 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 fam-
ily 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 . . .
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1.25 Carpe Jugulum
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Carpe Jugulum
%I Doubleday (h/cvr)
%D 5/11/98 [on sale in holland, belgium, scandawegia & 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 (mmp/b)
%D 8/00
ISBN 0-06-......-.
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 witchcraft 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.
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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]
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.]
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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)
%D 2/11/00 [scheduled]
ISBN 0-552-14616-1
%I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr)
%D 3/00
ISBN 0-06-105157-8
%I HarperTorch or HarperCollins Eos (mmp/b)
%D 3/01 [estimated]
ISBN 0-06-.....-. or 0-380-.....-. (n.y.k.)
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...
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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.
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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 pharoah: you're not allowed to carry money,
uninhibited young womem 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.]
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1.30 The Truth
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Truth
%I Doubleday (h/cvr) non-letterbox design jacket)
%D 2/11/00 [scheduled] (on-sale in iceland by late 8/00)
ISBN 0-385-60102-6
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.)
%D 11/00 [scheduled]
ISBN 0-552-.....-. (n.y.k.)
%I HarperCollins (merkin h/cvr)
%D 11/00 [scheduled]
ISBN 0-06-97895-4
%I corgi (p/b)
%D 11/01 [estimated]
ISBN 0-552-.....-. (n.y.k.)
% HarperTorch or HarperCollins Eos (merkin mmp/b)
%D 11/01 [estimated]
ISBN 0-06-.....-. or 0-380-.....-. (n.y.k.)
[source: pterry, reported by trina, xxxxianafper at aussiecon 1999;
later interview, colin smythe; wholesaler's publicity for transworld.]
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1.31 The Rincewind Trilogy (Omnibus [?of 1.5, 1.9 & 1.18?])
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Rincewind Trilogy
%I Gollancz (h/cvr)
%D 5/01 [scheduled]
ISBN 0-575-.....-.
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1.32 The Thief of Time
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Thief of Time
%I Doubleday (h/cvr)
%D 5/01 [scheduled]
ISBN 0-385-.....-. (n.y.k.)
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.)
%D 5/01 [scheduled]
ISBN 0-552-.....-. (n.y.k.)
%I HarperCollins (merkin h/cvr)
%D 5/01 [estimated]
ISBN 0-06-......-.
%I corgi (p/b)
%D 5/02 [estimated]
ISBN 0-552-.....-. (n.y.k.)
% HarperTorch or HarperCollins Eos (merkin mmp/b)
%D 5/02 [estimated]
ISBN 0-06-.....-. or 0-380-.....-.(n.y.k.)
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1.33 The Last Hero [working title] (due to be profusely illustrated by
paul kidby, as i understand it.]
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Last Hero [working title]
%I Doubleday (h/cvr)
%D 5/01, or 11/01 [estimated]
ISBN 0-385-.....-. (n.y.k.)
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.)(possibly)
%D 5/00, or 11/01 [estimated]
ISBN 0-552-.....-. (n.y.k.)
%I corgi (p/b)
%D 5/02, or 11/02 [estimated]
ISBN 0-552-.....-. (n.y.k.)
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1.34 [nothing further yet discovered or advised]
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 in-
sisted 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 is set, having
greatly enjoyed all that he's had published, and not just
the nowadays best-selling discworld novels: see below, for
quite how much more than two dozen such, are available.
[ppint.]
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9. Notes
(on publishers, ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers), formats...
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9.1 Note on uk publishers, ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers)
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];
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, formewrly 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];
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.
0-450- indicates N.E.L. (New English Library), owned by Times-Mirror, inc.,
of Los Angeles when they published paperback editions of two of Terry's
early novels, but now an imprint of Hodder Headline plc, having been bought
by Hodder & Stoughton, who in turn were taken over by Headline Publishers
and who have just been bought by W.H.Smith's;
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 these are now imprints of Cassell, which is in turn owned
by Orion (since late 1998), who are themselves owned by Hachette; 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 retire-
ment 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 seems to be in the process of being
transformed into the p/b imprint of gollancz sf (both still being imprints of
orion...).
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.
see also 0-575- (Gollancz, Vista) prefix.
0-7531-, 1-85089-, and 1-85695- identify Isis Publishing Ltd: these are
large print h/cvr editions and unabridged audio/bs.
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 are now imprints of Collins-Brown; 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 Time-Warner, inc; 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;
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.
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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-.
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, and no future HarperPrism titles will appear after
those already in production. i don't yet know whether the back list will
be rebadged and re-isbned, nor whether the imprint will be renamed - as
HarperEos, or HarperAvonEos, or whatever.
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 has been renamed Putnam-Penguin.
0-441- indicates use of the Ace imprint, once an independent publisher;
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, 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.
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9.3 Non-english language editions' ISBNs.
"2-" identifies a french-language edition isbn ("2-08-" for Flammarion,
"2-266-" Pocket, "2-290-" J'ai Lu, & "2-905158-" l'Atlante); "3-" german-
language editions isbn (prefixes "3-442-" indicating Goldmann, "3-453-"
Wilhelm Heyne, "3-8077-" 2001/Rogner & Bernhard). "83-" identifies the
polish language ("83-7120-" Dom Wydawniczy Rebis, "83-85661-" Proszynski
i S-ka); "84-" spanish ("84-01-" Plaza Janes, "84-480-" Timun Mas); "88-"
identifies italian ("88-04-" Mondadori, "88-7782-" Salani, "88-200-" Sper-
ling & Kupfer); "90-" dutch ("90-274-" Het Spectrum); and "91-" swedish
("91-7898-" Target Games, "91-32-" Wahlstro*m), language books' isbns.
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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. the Corgi audio/b range
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; 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 (and
preferably, the earlier, "odd" sides uppermost, 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 collec-
ted 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 plc 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 be
published in quarter, half, three-quarter or full leather bindings.]
kt/b this mixed p/b-h/cvr format, possibly uniquely to swedes' editions
of terry pratchett's books, is a paperback with "kartong" (paper-
board) covers; the swedish term is 'kartonnage'.
[thanks to gidjabolgo for explaining.]
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.
they are not "strippable for credit". the tp/b may be a p/b of any
size, and so is not strictly of any particular format. (cf. "mmp/b",
"p/b" & "yp/b")
yp/b "Yuppieback" - this term is descriptive of the 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")
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1. The Discworld Series
1.27 The Fifth Elephant [uk p/b scheduled 2/11/00][merkin p/b sched 5/01]
2. Non-Series Novels
5. Collaborations
6. Translations
7. Miscellany
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p/b blurb:
h/cvr blurb:
p/b blurb:
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1.3 Equal Rites
h/cvr blurb:
p/b blurb:
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1.4 Mort
h/cvr blurb:
p/b blurb:
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1.5 Sourcery
h/cvr blurb:
* A bad thing
p/b blurb:
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1.6 Wyrd Sisters
h/cvr blurb:
p/b blurb:
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1.7 Pyramids
h/cvr blurb:
p/b blurb:
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1.8 Guards! Guards!
h/cvr blurb:
p/b blurb:
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1.9 Eric
This is Eric.
There's a difference.
Literally.
a format p/b blurb:
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1.10 Moving Pictures
h/cvr blurb:
This Will Amaze You!
With a Thousand Elephants!
p/b blurb:
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1.11 Reaper Man
h/cvr blurb: [paras. ?]
p/b blurb:
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1.12 Witches Abroad
h/cvr blurb:
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1.13 Small Gods
h/cvr blurb: [paras. ?]
p/b blurb:
h/cvr blurb: [paras. ?]
p/b blurb:
h/cvr blurb:
p/b blurb:
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1.16 Soul Music
h/cvr blurb:
p/b blurb:
It's *alive.*
EQUAL RITES
WYRD SISTERS
WITCHES ABROAD
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1.18 Interesting Times
h/cvr blurb:
p/b blurb:
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1.19 Maskerade
h/cvr blurb:
p/b blurb:
h/cvr blurb:
p/b blurb:
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1.21 Hogfather
h/cvr blurb:
He's _gone_.
Ho. Ho. Ho.
p/b blurb:
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1.22 Jingo
h/cvr blurb:
p/b blurb:
h/cvr blurb:
p/b blurb:
Still...no worries, eh?
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1.24 Death Trilogy
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1.25 Carpe Jugulum
h/cvr blurb:
%I HarperTorch (mmp/b)
%D 5/01 [scheduled]
ISBN 0-06-.....-. (n.y.k.)
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1.30 The Truth
% HarperTorch (mmp/b)
%D 11/01 [estimated]
ISBN 0-06-.....-. (n.y.k.)
% HarperTorch (merkin mmp/b)
%D 5/02 [estimated]
ISBN 0-06-.....-. (n.y.k.)