Wintersmith
Pighooey
Worldcon I thought I heard Pterry said it would be out in the Spring.
Or (groan) might he have meant *next* Spring? Or is it Thud that's due
out next? In any case, neither of them show up on Amazon, dammit, and I
wanted to pre-order them while I still had some Christmas gift
certificate left.
Jean
Richard Eney
I think they are both still "in progress". IIRC, Thud (or whatever it
becomes) is more likely to be ready for spring.
=Tamar
Pighooey
Right, I'll try to be patient. Thanks for your response.
Jean
Daibhid Ceannaideach
news:1105994896.0...@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:
I've just checked Amazon and SODIII:Darwin's Watch is out in May which
usually means a "normal" Discworld probably won't be. I'm therefore
thinking (BICBW) that the chances are Wintersmith's due in Nov. (which
sounds appropriate from the title) and Probably Thud in 2006. Sorry.
--
Dave
Official Absentee of EU Skiffeysoc
http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/sesoc/
"See a pin and pick it up, and all day long you'll have a pin."
-Stanley Howler, philacutist; Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
beth...@yahoo.co.uk
just got my copy of "Ramtop to Rimfall" It appears SOD3 is due in June
and Thud in October. I assume this is at least semi official. No
mention of Wintersmith though :-(
--
BriD
Terry Pratchett
<dic...@radix.net> writes
Hello?
I spent the first half of 2004 with high blood pressure , which for
three months was being treated with beta-blockers . I don't know how
Going Postal got written -- they sat on my brain like warm flannel *and*
didn't do anything for the bp. That slowed me down a lot. Even now,
although I'm beginning to shed some of the post-op drugs, I still get
tired more easily that, say, a year ago. SoD3 got done. A worldcon
and/ four tours happened. Thud! will be done by the end of March.
Wintersmith will be the next book. But its deadline will be March 2006.
I may well finish it before that -- but I won't be contracted to.
In short, I've head a heart op not because I eat lard or smoke 60 cigs a
a day, but because for more than 15 years I've written books back to
back and toured them too. Sooner or later you have to stop living like
that.
You may see three books per two years, or one a year, but I think two a
year is unlikely to happen.
--
Terry Pratchett
SAUN {SAchin BrojmohUN}
> Hello?
>
> I spent the first half of 2004 with high blood pressure , which for
> three months was being treated with beta-blockers . I don't know how
> Going Postal got written -- they sat on my brain like warm flannel *and*
> didn't do anything for the bp. That slowed me down a lot. Even now,
> although I'm beginning to shed some of the post-op drugs, I still get
> tired more easily that, say, a year ago. SoD3 got done. A worldcon
> and/ four tours happened. Thud! will be done by the end of March.
>
> Wintersmith will be the next book. But its deadline will be March 2006.
> I may well finish it before that -- but I won't be contracted to.
>
> In short, I've head a heart op not because I eat lard or smoke 60 cigs a
> a day, but because for more than 15 years I've written books back to
> back and toured them too. Sooner or later you have to stop living like
> that.
>
> You may see three books per two years, or one a year, but I think two a
> year is unlikely to happen.
>
Hello Sir,
Please look after yourself. Remember you said once that you will never
officially write the last Discworld book. As a long-time fan, I think
that I'd prefer a book per year or even a book per two years than the
*unofficial* last Discworld book.
Cheers :-)
--
SAUN {SAchin BrojmohUN}
_________________________
Once again we dance in the crowd
At times a step away
From a common fear that's all spread out
It won't listen to what you say
Once you're touched you stand alone
To face the bitter fight
Once I reached for love
And now I reach for life
|DT "Learning to Live"|
Ssirienna
"Terry Pratchett" <tprat...@unseen.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:fOhYqrAW...@unseen.demon.co.uk...
> In message <10ulpqd...@corp.supernews.com>, Richard Eney
> <dic...@radix.net> writes
>>In article <1105736587.2...@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
>>Pighooey <pigh...@ici.net> wrote:
(snippage)
>
> Hello?
*waves back*
>
> I spent the first half of 2004 with high blood pressure , which for three
> months was being treated with beta-blockers . I don't know how Going
> Postal got written -- they sat on my brain like warm flannel *and* didn't
> do anything for the bp. That slowed me down a lot. Even now, although
> I'm beginning to shed some of the post-op drugs, I still get tired more
> easily that, say, a year ago. SoD3 got done. A worldcon and/ four tours
> happened. Thud! will be done by the end of March.
Ouch! OK please start slowing down - hey I'm used to writers
like Jean M. Auel who don't produce books for about 5 years at a time.
Other people can adjust as well!!
>
> Wintersmith will be the next book. But its deadline will be March 2006. I
> may well finish it before that -- but I won't be contracted to.
That sounds perfectly reasonable.
>
> In short, I've head a heart op not because I eat lard or smoke 60 cigs a a
> day, but because for more than 15 years I've written books back to back
> and toured them too. Sooner or later you have to stop living like that.
Please do!!
We are more worried about you staying healthy and happy.
Take holidays - not tours.
Be pampered - am sure we can find volunteerrs amongst the great
unwashed that is ABP/AFP to fetch and carry for you.
Relax and feed the plants annoying people
>
> You may see three books per two years, or one a year, but I think two a
> year is unlikely to happen.
Sounds great :-))
>
> --
> Terry Pratchett
*ZEN hug - very carefully*
Ssirienna
--
Mouse: "Aaaaaagggggghhhh!" to startled Garfield: "He's drinking my hot tub!"
Garfield to Jon: "How's the soup?" Jon: "What ...."
Garfield (c) 12/01/2004
W. F. Zimmerman
Daibhid Ceannaideach
news:y3wHd.17004$_X7.1...@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com:
> What's Ramtop to Rimfall and where can you subscribe?
R2R is the newsletter of the Guild of Fans and Diciples, the unofficial UK
Terry Pratchett fan club. More information is at
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/1777/menu.html
bewtifulfreak
> Terry Pratchett wrote:
> (In reply to expressions of impatience for - or at least expectation
> of - two new novels this year)
<explaination of health situation>
>> You may see three books per two years, or one a year, but I think
>> two a year is unlikely to happen.
>
> You mean "unlikely to happen again," no doubt. Sorry, sorry, sorry,
> but it's your own dashed fault for spoiling us, you know! But we shall
> certainly adjust and I'm sure we're all glad, deep in our unselfish
> hearts, that you are taking better care of yourself and learning to
> enjoy life without writing at least three books at once in addition to
> all the other things you do (touring books, attending conventions,
> pickling onions, etc.). I'm sure this is not easy for you, either.
> Habits of a lifetime and all that. However, surely you wouldn't want
> us to react as though we couldn't care less when the next Pratchett
> book was due to be released, either? :-)
Exactly....I didn't get the sense that anyone had any intention of putting
undo pressure upon him, only that they were unaware of his current health
situation and used to his books coming out at a certain frequency, greatly
enjoy them, and are looking eagerly forward to the next one.
--
Ann
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/bewtifulfreak
Baba Yaga
alt.books.pratchett:
[TP]
>> In short, I've head a heart op not because I eat lard or smoke 60 cigs a a
>> day, but because for more than 15 years I've written books back to back
>> and toured them too. Sooner or later you have to stop living like that.
>
>Please do!!
>We are more worried about you staying healthy and happy.
Yep. I couldn't feel cheated if there was never another Discworld
book - but there are some obituaries you only want to see when they
can say, "aged 96, after a happily mis-spent life".
>Take holidays - not tours.
>Be pampered - am sure we can find volunteerrs amongst the great
>unwashed that is ABP/AFP to fetch and carry for you.
And this is the why of this post...
What's with staying in hotels when you *do* go on tours? I'm sure
there's many a place where there are abp/afp folk who'd be tickled
pink to provide you with something like comfort, and promise to
suppress all fannish instincts for the duration.
Baba Yaga
--
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea: massive,
difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of
mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
- Gene Spafford
beth...@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks Dave, would have answered myself if I'd still been on line. I
suspect I got my copy late but hey I got a 50p green stamp so who
cares.
--
BriD
PS Terry, one book occasionally is fine honest. Your health is more
important.
elfin
[snip]
> What's with staying in hotels when you *do* go on tours? I'm sure
> there's many a place where there are abp/afp folk who'd be tickled
> pink to provide you with something like comfort, and promise to
> suppress all fannish instincts for the duration.
I am not speaking for Terry.
I would think that relaxation would be paramount during said tours, quite
often the *less* people about the better. Hotels provide comfort (well ok
with exceptions) rather than the 'something like comfort'.
elfin
Richard Eney
SAUN {SAchin BrojmohUN} <"sachin[dot]brojmohun[at]free[dot]fr"> wrote:
>Terry Pratchett wrote:
<snip>
>> In short, I've head a heart op not because I eat lard or smoke 60 cigs a
>> a day, but because for more than 15 years I've written books back to
>> back and toured them too. Sooner or later you have to stop living like
>> that.
>>
>> You may see three books per two years, or one a year, but I think two a
>> year is unlikely to happen.
>>
>
>Hello Sir,
>Please look after yourself. Remember you said once that you will never
>officially write the last Discworld book. As a long-time fan, I think
>that I'd prefer a book per year or even a book per two years than the
>*unofficial* last Discworld book.
>Cheers :-)
AOL. I'll take what I can get, whenever it happens. Live well,
write as you will, I'll be happy to see it when it comes out.
=Tamar
Farkle Pingleblobber
> Hello?
>
> I spent the first half of 2004 with high blood pressure , which for
> three months was being treated with beta-blockers . I don't know how
> Going Postal got written -- they sat on my brain like warm flannel *and*
> didn't do anything for the bp. That slowed me down a lot. Even now,
> although I'm beginning to shed some of the post-op drugs, I still get
> tired more easily that, say, a year ago. SoD3 got done. A worldcon
> and/ four tours happened. Thud! will be done by the end of March.
>
> Wintersmith will be the next book. But its deadline will be March 2006.
> I may well finish it before that -- but I won't be contracted to.
>
> In short, I've head a heart op not because I eat lard or smoke 60 cigs a
> a day, but because for more than 15 years I've written books back to
> back and toured them too. Sooner or later you have to stop living like
> that.
>
> You may see three books per two years, or one a year, but I think two a
> year is unlikely to happen.
You may well already know this, but, just in case:
The heart is the main delivery system for the blood, but not the only
pump in the circulatory system. The business end of the system is the
wee capillaries that circulate the blood through the muscles.
Capillaries move blood by means of tiny one-way valves and muscle
action. Sitting at a console is not the sort of muscle action that does
this work, except maybe in the fingers and, to a lesser extent, the arms.
When you spend a significant amount of your day in front of a computer,
the heart has to try to force the blood through the constriction of the
capillaries, rather than just through the larger veins and arteries,
thus raising the blood pressure.
May I suggest that you take up some sort of sport that will require
muscle action? Even just walking can make an enormous difference, but
tennis or badminton or volleyball are very good for this, as well as
being fun. Riding a (non-motorised) bike is also very good.
Perhaps you might consider buying a metal-detector like mine and hunting
your property and that of your neighbors. The walking, mixed with the
kneeling and getting back up when you find a target, is really excellent
exercise and can be great fun, since it's like having a history-scope on
the past.
I would like to live to be a really seriously old crotchety fart, if I
can, and I also hope to have tea with you and bitch and complain about
the younger generation from time to time, so please consider this advice.
-Farkle (RF in disguise)
--
How many pingles could a pingleblobber blob if a pingleblobber . .
Lesley Weston
tprat...@unseen.demon.co.uk wrote on 19/01/2005 2:07 AM:
> In message <10ulpqd...@corp.supernews.com>, Richard Eney
> <dic...@radix.net> writes
>> In article <1105736587.2...@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
>> Pighooey <pigh...@ici.net> wrote:
>>> Shouldn't there be an entry for Wintersmith on Amazon.co.uk by now? At
>>> Worldcon I thought I heard Pterry said it would be out in the Spring.
>>> Or (groan) might he have meant *next* Spring? Or is it Thud that's due
>>> out next? In any case, neither of them show up on Amazon, dammit, and I
>>> wanted to pre-order them while I still had some Christmas gift
>>> certificate left.
>>
>> I think they are both still "in progress". IIRC, Thud (or whatever it
>> becomes) is more likely to be ready for spring.
>>
>> =Tamar
>
>
> Hello?
>
> I spent the first half of 2004 with high blood pressure , which for
> three months was being treated with beta-blockers . I don't know how
> Going Postal got written -- they sat on my brain like warm flannel *and*
> didn't do anything for the bp.
It certainly doesn't read like it was written through layers of wet flannel.
>That slowed me down a lot. Even now,
> although I'm beginning to shed some of the post-op drugs, I still get
> tired more easily that, say, a year ago. SoD3 got done. A worldcon
> and/ four tours happened. Thud! will be done by the end of March.
>
> Wintersmith will be the next book. But its deadline will be March 2006.
> I may well finish it before that -- but I won't be contracted to.
>
> In short, I've head a heart op not because I eat lard or smoke 60 cigs a
> a day, but because for more than 15 years I've written books back to
> back and toured them too. Sooner or later you have to stop living like
> that.
Yes indeed you do... or stop living. *Please* choose the former option!
>
> You may see three books per two years, or one a year, but I think two a
> year is unlikely to happen.
One a year (or even none a year if necessary) and still having you around
will do fine.
--
Lesley Weston.
Brightly_coloured_blob is real, but I don't often check even the few bits
that get through Yahoo's filters. To reach me, use lesley att vancouverbc
dott nett, changing spelling and spacing as required.
Lesley Weston
spam...@phonecoop.coop wrote on 19/01/2005 12:30 PM:
<snip>
> What's with staying in hotels when you *do* go on tours? I'm sure
> there's many a place where there are abp/afp folk who'd be tickled
> pink to provide you with something like comfort, and promise to
> suppress all fannish instincts for the duration.
He's supposed to be under less stress, not more.
Daibhid Ceannaideach
news:BE141C60.3274F%brightly_co...@yahoo.co.uk:
> in article amgtu0tir86g9fll6...@4ax.com, Baba Yaga at
> spam...@phonecoop.coop wrote on 19/01/2005 12:30 PM:
>
>
> <snip>
>
>> What's with staying in hotels when you *do* go on tours? I'm sure
>> there's many a place where there are abp/afp folk who'd be tickled
>> pink to provide you with something like comfort, and promise to
>> suppress all fannish instincts for the duration.
>
> He's supposed to be under less stress, not more.
Indeed. Afpers may *promise* to "suppress fannish instincts" but how many
of us could actually *achieve* that? I'm pretty sure I couldn't.
Richard Bos
> Hello?
>
> I spent the first half of 2004 with high blood pressure , which for
> three months was being treated with beta-blockers .
> In short, I've head a heart op not because I eat lard or smoke 60 cigs a
> a day, but because for more than 15 years I've written books back to
> back and toured them too. Sooner or later you have to stop living like
> that.
Good grief! I never knew anything about this... you've managed to deal
with it well, at least as far as one can tell over a newsgroup (which,
of course, isn't all that far). Best of wishes for your future health.
Richard
Thomas Zahr
> In short, I've head a heart op not because I eat lard or
> smoke 60 cigs a a day, but because for more than 15 years
> I've written books back to back and toured them too.
> Sooner or later you have to stop living like that.
>
> You may see three books per two years, or one a year, but I
> think two a year is unlikely to happen.
>
Go easy, I for one are more interested in your surviving a
long time [1] then in
maximising your output per year.
Enjoy a bit, add some vacation and sightseeing to the
tours [2]
And I very much liked GP, it may have been written under a
cloud, but that does not seem to have cramped your style too
much. Your efforts are very much appreciated.
Thanks
[1] writing good books, as you do
[2] if that interests you
--
Ciao
Thomas =:-)
<www.kochkinder.de>
Cliff
"Daibhid Ceannaideach" <daibhidc...@aol.com> wrote in
message
>
> Indeed. Afpers may *promise* to "suppress fannish
> instincts" but how many
> of us could actually *achieve* that? I'm pretty sure I
> couldn't.
>
As many as can kiss their own elbows.
--
Cliff
Len Oil
Certainly. Hotels /may/ occasionally be dumps, and when they aren't
they're usually anonymous and repetitive incarnations of impersonality
where variation starts to meet monotony right round the other side of
the continuum, /however/ they may be disguised by the trappings of
luxury... but compare that with how it would be like to stay with (most)
fans... House-guests are traditionally fawned over by the hosts, but
imagine what horrors Terry could be subject to (in the name of
hospitality) if he took that route... It is arguably better to deal
with professional and impersonal hosts on the occasions he has to be
If Terry stayed at /my/ house, for example, he'd probably be desperate
to escape to even the /worst/ of the hotels of the Holiday
Inn/Travelodge-ilk present in the vicinity, and that's even without me
pestering him[2] like a Fanboy of the worst degree...
No, much as I'd like to see more of him, I support the 'quality and
longevity over quantity' approach, and perhaps that means home-cooked
meals from /his/ home and a vast majority of any pestering being done by
a family being done by /his/ family...
(Not that I wouldn't mind you dropping me a line next time your passing
through Sheffield, Terry, but I really have /no/ illusions about that,
don't worry. :)
[1] Even 'uncaring' to the extent of being /universally/ hospitable to
guests but with no favour..?
[2] "Here's the kitchen, yes it is small and please excuse the dirty
dishes... Here's the living room, forgive the pile of papers /totally/
covering the floor, the table, most of the chairs it... Here's a
bookshelf, and perhaps, while you're here, you could sign some of the
things on it? Just the Discworld ones, ignore the one or two other
items on it. Don't overdo it, though, rest your hand and maybe aim for
one every half hour? It won't take much more than a couple of days if
you don't need to sleep while you're here, which is probably advisable
given the state of the guest room..."
Mike M. Skala
Just another ME2!!
I'm doing the "Hi-BP == wet flannell" route right now, I know the
turnips and shrimps. Buggerit.
May I recommend fencing? Good and slow workout for the
cardi..eh..fuscular system and the wrists tend to get stronger. Helps
when working in the usual position for the usual 12hours+.
PLEASE take care of yourself, mike
--
Mike M. Skala
mike.skala_rem@ve_chello.at
ICBM:LO...@481042.165847.183
Graycat
<daibhidc...@aol.com> jotted down:
>Lesley Weston <brightly_co...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in
>news:BE141C60.3274F%brightly_co...@yahoo.co.uk:
>
>> in article amgtu0tir86g9fll6...@4ax.com, Baba Yaga at
>> spam...@phonecoop.coop wrote on 19/01/2005 12:30 PM:
>>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> What's with staying in hotels when you *do* go on tours? I'm sure
>>> there's many a place where there are abp/afp folk who'd be tickled
>>> pink to provide you with something like comfort, and promise to
>>> suppress all fannish instincts for the duration.
>>
>> He's supposed to be under less stress, not more.
>
>Indeed. Afpers may *promise* to "suppress fannish instincts" but how many
>of us could actually *achieve* that? I'm pretty sure I couldn't.
Doesn't matter anyway. Staying at a person's (any person's)
home is always going to be more work than staying at a
hotel, simply because you have little or no obligation to be
grateful and nice to the hotel for sharing it's space with
you. As a house guest you have to converse, be polite, eat
dinner with the family, not hog the hot water and admire the
children's drawings of DEatH anD my MuM and ME and DAb...
Even if what you want is to order up a pizza to have in the
bath, four bananananana daquiries and crash into bed at half
past seven in the evening.
--
Elin
The Tale of Westala and Villtin
http://tale.cunobaros.com/
The Oswalds DW casting award - Vote Now!
http://www.student.lu.se/~his02ero/Oswald/index.html
Baba Yaga
>Baba Yaga wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>> What's with staying in hotels when you *do* go on tours? I'm sure
>> there's many a place where there are abp/afp folk who'd be tickled
>> pink to provide you with something like comfort, and promise to
>> suppress all fannish instincts for the duration.
>
>I am not speaking for Terry.
>
>I would think that relaxation would be paramount during said tours,
Exactly!
Hotel to hotel would not be my idea of relaxation.
> quite
>often the *less* people about the better. Hotels provide comfort (well ok
>with exceptions) rather than the 'something like comfort'.
>
>elfin
<<grin>> It all depends how one interprets "something like" [1], and
how one interprets TP's previous remarks about hotels. I do it in the
light of not liking them one bit.
Point taken, all the same.
[1] I wasn't thinking of offering the dubious comfort of my el-cheapo
sofa bed, f'rinstance.
Baba Yaga
Ssirienna
"Cliff" <jc...@space.com> wrote in message
news:gKFHd.588$YD5...@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
Ssirienna
Terry Pratchett
<spam...@phonecoop.coop> writes
>
><<grin>> It all depends how one interprets "something like" [1], and
>how one interprets TP's previous remarks about hotels. I do it in the
>light of not liking them one bit.
The hotels I stay in are pretty good, as hotels -- comfy beds, quiet
rooms, 24-hour room service. It's the whole thing that kills, like I
Said. By day three, if jetlag is involved too, it begins to get unreal.
Staying with people-- well, it's a lovely idea, but I'm not good company
on tour. After a big signing, room service and a crash out in a quite
room is what I crave.
--
Terry Pratchett
Baba Yaga
alt.books.pratchett:
>The hotels I stay in are pretty good, as hotels -- comfy beds, quiet
>rooms, 24-hour room service. It's the whole thing that kills, like I
>Said. By day three, if jetlag is involved too, it begins to get unreal.
>Staying with people-- well, it's a lovely idea, but I'm not good company
>on tour.
That bit I'd taken as read! And obviously not quite thought through.
>After a big signing, room service and a crash out in a quite
>room is what I crave.
Yours is the vote which matters. Only, please, look after your health
before looking after your readers.
Sofia
>
> Wintersmith will be the next book. But its deadline will be March 2006.
> I may well finish it before that -- but I won't be contracted to.
Look what I found on one of the Yahoo sites-
They do, however, list Lou Drendel's "Thud," and Nick Butterworth's
"Thud!"
So, some ponderings:
Will Pratchett and his publishers keep the name of the next book as
"Thud!"?
Maybe what you're trying to tell us, is that you've renamed the original
"Thud" into "Wintersmith" and it'll be out in March next year?
"@lec ©awley"
Wrong. "Wintersmith" is the book after "Thud!". "Thud!" is a Watch book
featuring, as it would have to, many dwarves and trolls and, of course,
Sam Vimes. "Wintersmith" is a Tiffany Aching book, following on from "A
Hat Full of Sky". Terry read the tentative first chapter of
"Wintersmith" at the DW Convention, and he has read the first chapter of
"Thud!" at other venues.
This is all explained in the post you snipped most of.
--
@lec Šawley
Daibhid Ceannaideach
news:36q4hbF...@individual.net:
> Sofia wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:07:30 +0000, Terry Pratchett wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Wintersmith will be the next book. But its deadline will be March
>>>2006. I may well finish it before that -- but I won't be contracted
>>>to.
>>
>>
>>
>> Look what I found on one of the Yahoo sites-
>>
>>
>> They do, however, list Lou Drendel's "Thud," and Nick Butterworth's
>> "Thud!"
>>
>> So, some ponderings:
>>
>> Will Pratchett and his publishers keep the name of the next book as
>> "Thud!"?
Since the other books are a nineteen year old book about a military
aircraft and a seven year old children's book respectively, it's unlikely
Pterry's suddenly changing his plans based on them now. Anyway, the book
has to be called "Thud!", to tie in with the board game 8-)...
>> Maybe what you're trying to tell us, is that you've renamed the
>> original "Thud" into "Wintersmith" and it'll be out in March next
>> year?
>
> Wrong. "Wintersmith" is the book after "Thud!". "Thud!" is a Watch
> book featuring, as it would have to, many dwarves and trolls and, of
> course, Sam Vimes. "Wintersmith" is a Tiffany Aching book, following
> on from "A Hat Full of Sky". Terry read the tentative first chapter of
> "Wintersmith" at the DW Convention, and he has read the first chapter
> of "Thud!" at other venues.
Actually, he read the first chapter of "Thud!" at DiscCon too.
I do wonder why, though, if it's due out next month, it's *still* not on
Amazon? Harry Bleedin Potter and the Half A Sixpence is already there...
--
Dave
Official Absentee of EU Skiffeysoc
http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/sesoc/
Fate protects fools, little children and ships called "Enterprise".
But not shows called "Enterprise".
Orjan Westin
>
> I do wonder why, though, if it's due out next month, it's *still* not
> on Amazon? Harry Bleedin Potter and the Half A Sixpence is already
> there...
Because the next book is TSOD3. Terry explained, a bit earlier in this
thread, that he's been poor, had a serious operation and that the time of
two books per year is irrevocably gone.
Patience, glasshoppel, in other words.
Orjan
--
Get your Tale paperback or CD here:
http://tale.cunobaros.com
Or just read it there, if you don't want the illustrations
Brian Dominic
<nos...@cunobaros.demon.co.uk> put down their glass of wine, sat back
and said:
>Daibhid Ceannaideach wrote:
>>
>> I do wonder why, though, if it's due out next month, it's *still* not
>> on Amazon? Harry Bleedin Potter and the Half A Sixpence is already
>> there...
>
>Because the next book is TSOD3. Terry explained, a bit earlier in this
>thread, that he's been poor, had a serious operation and that the time of
>two books per year is irrevocably gone.
>
Forgive me, I've only started taking the Group this evening.
What's TSOD3?
Brian L Dominic
Web Sites:
Canals: http://www.brianscanalpages.co.uk
Friends of the Cromford Canal: http://www.cromfordcanal.org.uk
Mid-Derbyshire Light Railway: http://www.mdlr.co.uk
Richard Bos
> Daibhid Ceannaideach wrote:
> >
> > I do wonder why, though, if it's due out next month, it's *still* not
> > on Amazon? Harry Bleedin Potter and the Half A Sixpence is already
> > there...
>
> Because the next book is TSOD3. Terry explained, a bit earlier in this
> thread, that he's been poor,
Um. Poor_ly_. I don't think Pterry has been poor for quite a few
years...
> Patience, glasshoppel, in other words.
Yes.
Richard
joni
TP is still writing "THUD!" I just finished a month long chat sponsored by
Barnes and Noble with Pterry as guest host. He talked about having to get in
his 300 words a day. :)
"@lec ©awley"
>
> Forgive me, I've only started taking the Group this evening.
>
> What's TSOD3?
The Science of Discworld3: Darwin's Watch
Due out 5th May, I think.
--
@lec Šawley
Mike Stevens
> Forgive me, I've only started taking the Group this evening.
What are you doing out your usual haunts on u.r.w. etc? Good to see you
here, Brian.
--
Mike Stevens
narrowboat Felis Catus II
Web site www.mike-stevens.co.uk
No man is an island. So is Man.
Terry Pratchett
<nos...@cunobaros.demon.co.uk> writes
>
>
>Because the next book is TSOD3. Terry explained, a bit earlier in this
>thread, that he's been poor,
Yes, but I feel a lot richer now.
--
Terry Pratchett
Daibhid Ceannaideach
news:36qa90F...@individual.net:
> Daibhid Ceannaideach wrote:
>>
>> I do wonder why, though, if it's due out next month, it's *still* not
>> on Amazon? Harry Bleedin Potter and the Half A Sixpence is already
>> there...
>
> Because the next book is TSOD3. Terry explained, a bit earlier in
> this thread, that he's been poor, had a serious operation and that the
> time of two books per year is irrevocably gone.
Yes, I read that. He also said "Thud! will be done by the end of March",
which I somehow read as "published", rather than "completed". Sorry.
Lesley Weston
Good to see you in such good wealth!
--
Lesley Weston.
Brightly_coloured_blob is real, but I don't often check even the few bits
that get through Yahoo's filters. To reach me, use leswes att shaw dott ca,
Farkle Pingleblobber
Best laugh I've had in months! Thanks!!
-Farkle
--
-How many pingles could a pingleblobber blob if a pingleblobber . .
Orjan Westin
Love-child! I had been looking forward to that coffee!
Oh, well, I won't have to send that bouquet with Pachira, Capsella
bursa-pastoris and Calendula officinalis then.
On that subject (and I realise this is probably a job for Stephen Briggs and
Paul Kidby as much as for you), have you had any plans for a Discworld
Flora/Bestiary (well, some of the plants could go into either, I reckon)?
To some extent it's covered by the Companion and the Almanack (the secrets
of cabbages need not be delved into in greater detail than is already done,
I feel), but I reckon that people'd be interested, esp. if it also included
herbal remedies by A Lancre Witch.
Brian Dominic
<michael...@which.net> put down their glass of wine, sat back and
said:
>Brian Dominic wrote:
>
>> Forgive me, I've only started taking the Group this evening.
>
>What are you doing out your usual haunts on u.r.w. etc? Good to see you
>here, Brian.
Spreading my wings a little, tho' whether I'll stay depends on what I
see - most of it seems to be fairly sensible (so far)
Brian Dominic
Thank you!
Farkle Pingleblobber
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 00:32:45 -0000, "Mike Stevens"
> <michael...@which.net> put down their glass of wine, sat back and
> said:
>
>
>>Brian Dominic wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Forgive me, I've only started taking the Group this evening.
>>
>>What are you doing out your usual haunts on u.r.w. etc? Good to see you
>>here, Brian.
>
>
> Spreading my wings a little, tho' whether I'll stay depends on what I
> see - most of it seems to be fairly sensible (so far)
Famous afp/abp person from the distant past was named Joann L. Dominick.
Incredible lady; most excellent with words and bitter humour. I reckon
the "k" means you're not related.
Sofia
>
> The Science of Discworld3: Darwin's Watch
>
> Due out 5th May, I think.
Ohshitohshitohshitohshit, TSOD3's coming out! I havn't got one or two yet,
how can PTerry have written a third! Now I've got even more catching up to
do.
Oh well, looks like Thud and Wintersmith are going to have to sit inside
my bookshop for a few years longer than they were supposed to, at least
until I can start reading the the first of the TSOD books anyway.
Sofie
CCA:)
[TP's author tours]
> What's with staying in hotels when you *do* go on tours? I'm sure
> there's many a place where there are abp/afp folk who'd be tickled
> pink to provide you with something like comfort, and promise to
> suppress all fannish instincts for the duration.
Well, most people can get grumpy when they're tired, and I'm sure Terry
is no exception there. After a long day, I should think he'd probably
be very glad of some solitude, and the chance to relax without having
to talk to anyone, no matter how friendly and welcoming his hosts might
be.
CCA:)
gipsy boy
> In message <10ulpqd...@corp.supernews.com>, Richard Eney
> <dic...@radix.net> writes
>
>> In article <1105736587.2...@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
>> Pighooey <pigh...@ici.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Shouldn't there be an entry for Wintersmith on Amazon.co.uk by now? At
>>> Worldcon I thought I heard Pterry said it would be out in the Spring.
>>> Or (groan) might he have meant *next* Spring? Or is it Thud that's due
>>> out next? In any case, neither of them show up on Amazon, dammit, and I
>>> wanted to pre-order them while I still had some Christmas gift
>>> certificate left.
>>
>>
>> I think they are both still "in progress". IIRC, Thud (or whatever it
>> becomes) is more likely to be ready for spring.
>>
>> =Tamar
>
>
>
> Hello?
>
> I spent the first half of 2004 with high blood pressure , which for
> three months was being treated with beta-blockers . I don't know how
> Going Postal got written -- they sat on my brain like warm flannel *and*
> didn't do anything for the bp. That slowed me down a lot. Even now,
> although I'm beginning to shed some of the post-op drugs, I still get
> tired more easily that, say, a year ago. SoD3 got done. A worldcon
> and/ four tours happened. Thud! will be done by the end of March.
Sorry for replying to a post from January (and I'm replying to the
grandparent - by which I do mean Pighooey :) ), but...on amazon.co.uk,
there's been an entry for Thud! for a long time now, which puts October
1st, 2005 forward as the release date.
I'd actually prefer having only one DW book every two years or so...I
can't help but feeling a bit guilty when I look at that shelf :)
I also see a lot of people enjoying re-reading the books (and also,
getting others to read them) even more every time.
--
- gipsy boy