"All power corrupts, but we need electricity."
D. W. Jones
THE TERRY PRATCHETT BIBLIOGRAPHY
adapted from Nathan Torkington
Pratchett Bibliography on Internet
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The Discworld Series
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Without a doubt this is the most popular series of books that
Terry Pratchett has written. Without exception, the references
here are to UK and Commonwealth editions. Note that Corgi is the
publisher for the paperback editions only.
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The Colour of Magic
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Colour of Magic
%I Corgi
%D
ISBN 0 552 12475 3
Jerome K. Jerome meets Lord of the Rings (with a touch of Peter
Pan)...
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.
The Light Fantastic
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Light Fantastic
%I Corgi
%D
ISBN 0 552 12848 1
As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a
malevolent red star, the Discworld has only one possible saviour.
Unfortunately, this happens to be the singularly inept and
cowardly 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.
Equal Rites
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Equal Rites
%I Corgi
%D
ISBN 0 552 13105 9
%I Victor Gollancz
ISBN 0 575 03950 7 (Hardback)
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 chauvinistic (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.
Mort
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Mort
%I Corgi
%D
ISBN 0 552 13106 7
%I Victor Gollancz
ISBN 0 575 04171 4 (Hardback)
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
accepted. However, he soon found that romantic longings did not
mix easily with the responsibilities of being Death's
apprentice...
Sourcery
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Sourcery
%I Corgi
%D
ISBN 0 552 13107 5
%I Victor Gollancz
ISBN 0 575 04217 6 (Hardback)
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.
Wyrd Sisters
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Wyrd Sisters
%I Corgi
%D 1989
ISBN 0 552 13460 0
%I Victor Gollancz
ISBN 0 575 04363 6 (Hardback)
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...
Pyramids
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Pyramids
%I Corgi
%D 1990
ISBN 0 552 13461 9
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...
Guards! Guards!
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Guards! Guards!
%I Corgi
%D 1990
ISBN 0 552 13462 7
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!
Eric
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Eric
%I Corgi
%D
ISBN 0 575 04836 0 (Corgi)
%I VGSF (Victor Gollancz Ltd in association with Corgi)
ISBN 0 575 05191 4 (Non Illustrated)
ISBN 0-575-04636-8 (Hardback Illustrated)
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
immortal, 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.
Moving Pictures
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Moving Pictures
%I Corgi
%D
ISBN 0 552 13463 5
%I Victor Gollancz
ISBN 0 575 04763 1 (Hardback)
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!
Reaper Man
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Reaper Man
%I Corgi
%D
ISBN 0 552 13464 3 (Paperback)
%I Victor Gollancz
ISBN 0 575 04979 0 (Hardback)
Death is missing - presumed ... er ... gone.
Which leads to the kind of chaos to always expect when an
important public service is withdrawn.
Ghosts and poltergeists fill up the Discworld. Dead Rights
activist Reg Shoe - "You Don't Have to Take This Lying Down" -
suddenly has more work than he had ever dreamed of. And newly
deceased 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
impediment, 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.
Witches Abroad
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Witches Abroad
%I Victor Gollancz
%D
ISBN 0 575 04980 4 (Hardback)
%I Corgi
%D
ISBN 0 552 13465 1 (Paperback)
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...
Small Gods
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Small Gods
%I Victor Gollancz
%D
ISBN 0 575 05222 8 (Hardback)
%I Corgi
ISBN 0-552-13890-8 (Paperback)
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?
Lords and Ladies
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Lords and Ladies
%I Victor Gollancz
%D 1992
ISBN 0 575 05223 6 (Hardcover)
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.
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Pre-Discworld
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These books are Terry's earlier efforts, and came before the
success of "The Colour of Magic". Technically speaking "The
Unadulterated Cat" should appear here as well, but it isn't
really fantasy - see the "Collaborations" section.
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The Carpet People
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Carpet People
%C
%I
%D
ISBN 0 552 13325 6 (1st Edition [?])
0 385 40304 6 (New HB edition)
"In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then
came the Carpet..."
That's the old story everyone knows and loves (even if they
don't really believe it). For now the Carpet is home for many
different tribes and peoples -- from the empire-building Dumii,
to the nomadic Munrungs, the proud Deftmenes, and the terrible
creatures from the Unswept Regions. And now there's a new story
in the making.
The story of the time when Fray begins to move, sweeping a trail
of destruction across the Carpet.
The story of the power-hungry mouls, saddling up their snargs
and riding to the attack.
The story of Glurk and Snibril, Munrung brothers, who set out on
an adventure to end all adventures when their village is
flattened.
The story that will come to a terrible end -- if someone doesn't
do something about it. If everyone doesn't do something about
it...
Strata
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Strata
%C
%I Corgi
%D
ISBN 0 552 13325 6 (Paperback)
The excavation showed that the fossilized plesiosaur had been
holding a placard which read, "End Nuclear Testing Now".
That was nothing unusual.
But then came a discovery of something which did intrigue Kin
Arad.
A flat earth was something new...
The Dark Side of the Sun
%A Terry Pratchett
%T The Dark Side of the Sun
%C
%I Corgi
%D
ISBN 0 552 13326 4
Dom Salabos had a lot of advantages.
As heir to a huge fortune, he had an excellent robot servant
(with Man-Friday subcircuity), a planet (the First Syrian Bank)
as a godfather, a security chief who even ran checks on himself,
and on Dom's home world even death was not always fatal.
Why then, in an age when prediction was a science, was his
future in doubt?
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The Nomes Series
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Ostensibly for children, these books form a series that has
proved popular for both adults and children. You may find these
mistakenly filed under the SF section of your bookstore. Diggers
has been made into a cartoon series by Cosgrove-Hall.
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Truckers
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Truckers
%C
%I Corgi
%D
ISBN 0 552 52595 2
To the thousands of tiny nomes who live under the floorboards of
a large department store, there is no Outside. Things like Day
and Night, Sun and Rain are just daft old legends. Then a
devastating piece of news shatters their existence: the Store -
their whole world - is to be demolished. And it's up to Masklin,
one of the last nomes to come into the Store, to mastermind an
unbelievable escape plan that will take all the nomes into the
dangers of the great Outside...
Diggers
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Diggers
%C
%I Corgi
%D
ISBN 0 552 52586 3
A Bright New Dawn is just around the corner for thousands of
tiny nomes when they move into the ruined buildings of an
abandoned quarry. Or is it?
Soon strange things start to happen. Like the tops of puddles
growing hard and cold, and the water coming down from the sky in
frozen bits. Then humans appear and they really mess everything
up. The quarry is to be re-opened and the nomes must fight to
defend their new home. But how long will they be able to keep the
humans at bay - even with the help of the monster Jekub?
Wings
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Wings
%C
%I Corgi
%D
ISBN 0 552 52649 5
Somewhere in a place so far up there is no down, a ship is
waiting to take the nomes home - back to wherever they came from.
And one nome, Masklin, knows that they've got to try and contact
this ship.
It means going to Florida (wherever that is), then getting to
the launch of a communications satellite (whatever that is). A
ridiculous plan. Impossible.
But Masklin doesn't know this so he tries to do it anyway. And
the first step is to try and hitch a ride on a new kind of truck,
a truck with wings - Concorde...
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Young Adult Books
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Aimed at the round-about-teenage market, "Young Adult books have
fewer teddy bears and more inner city grit" (so the man himself
says).
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Only You Can Save Mankind
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Only You Can Save Mankind
%C
%I Doubleday
%D 1992
ISBN 0 385 40308 9
The mighty alien fleet from the very latest computer game
thunders across the computer screen...
Hands poised on the joystick, Johnny prepares to blow them into
the usual million pieces...
And they send him a message: WE SURRENDER.
They're not supposed to do that! Where does it say in the manual
that they're supposed to do that?
But they've done it. This time they don't want to die. They just
want to go home.
Johnny is the only human who knows. So he has to learn how to
wage all-out Peace, and they don't make joysticks with a 'Don't
Fire' button...
It's hard, trying to Save Mankind from the Galactic Hordes. It's
even harder trying to save the Galactic Hordes from Mankind. But
it's only a game, isn't it.
ISN'T IT?
Johnny and the Dead
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Johnny and the Dead
%C
%I Doubleday
%D 1993
ISBN 0 385 403011
'Call any time you like,' said the Alderman. `I'm always in.
That's something you learn to be good at, when you're dead...'
Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). But
twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And the dead are nothing like
he expected. They don't lurch about. They don't push through
walls. They can't even dance like they do in videos. They're just
people -- post-senior citizens -- and they're always in.
At least, up until now. Now the council want to move them out so
the cemetery can be sold as a building site. But the dead have
learned a thing or two from Johnny. They're not going to take it
lying down...especially since it's Halloween tomorrow.
Besides, they're beginnign to find that life is a lot more fun
than it was when they were...well...alive. Especially if they
break a few rules...
An irreverent and highly-entertaining new fantasy tale featuring
Johnny Maxwell, first met in Terry Pratchett's ``Only You Can
Save Mankind''.
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Collaborations
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To date, Terry has only written two books with other authors -
"Good Omens" with Neil Gaiman, and "The Unadulterated Cat" with
cartoonish Gray Joliffe. US readers should consider the US
edition (see the Translations section) where some of the funnier
jokes in Good Omens are explained for the benefit of the trans-
Atlantic audience.
A new edition of The Unadulterated Cat is supposed to have been
released. The ISBN number listed below isn't for this new
edition.
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Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman)
%A Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
%T Good Omens
%C
%I Corgi
%D
ISBN 0 552 13703 0
Crowley, Hell's most approachable demon, and an old friend
Aziraphale, genuine angel and London book shop owner, have a
problem. Armageddon - which will happen on a Saturday Night. Next
Saturday, in fact. So they've got no alternative but to stopt he
Four Motorcyclists of the Apocalypse, defeat the Witchfinder Army
and find and kill the Antichrist - an eleven-year-old boy who
loves his dog...
The Unadulterated Cat (with Gray Joliffe)
%A Terry Pratchett and Gray Joliffe
%T The Unadulterated Cat
%C
%I Victor Gollancz Ltd.
%D
ISBN 0 575 04628 7
ISBN 0 575 05369 0 (Paperback)
Can you recognise a real, unadulterated cat when you see one? Or
have you too grown used to the boring, mass-produced cats the
advertising industry adores?
Real cats never eat from bowls (at least not the ones marked
CAT).
Real cats do eat quiche. And giblets. And butter. And anything
else left on the table. They can hear a fridge door opening two
rooms away.
Real cats don't need names. But they often get called them.
"Yaargeroffoutofityarbastard" does nicely.
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Miscellany
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This section lists short stories, trade articles, and similar
items published by Terry.
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Short Stories
His first short story was "The Hades Business", published in
Science Fantasy #60 (vol 20, 1963). He has also sold "Night
Dweller" in _New Worlds_ (187), and _Time Out_ magazine's
Christmas 1987 issue (number 904/5) had "Twenty Pence With
Envelope and Seasonal Greeting".
He has short stories in several collections:
* Digital Dreams. This is a collection of computer related sf
short stories. [?]
* After The King. This is a Tolkien tribute of fantasy
stories. His story is "Troll Bridge" and features Cohen the
Barbarian, from the Discworld. [ISBN ?]
* Forbidden Planet SF Anthology 2. "Forbidden Planet" is an
SF/fantasy/comics specialist shop in London. The ISBN is 1
85286 332 8.
* Now We are Sick, edited by Neil Gaiman and Stephen Jones. A
collection of grim poetry. Two editions: the Limited Edition
(ISBN 0-9630944-0-8) and the Trade Edition (ISBN 0-9630944-
1-6).
* "Hidden Turnings", edited by Diana Wynne Jones. His story is
"Turntables of the Night". The book was first published in
Great Britain by Methuen Children's book in 1989. Then
published 1990 by Teens Mandarin, an imprint of Mandarin
Paperbacks (Mandarin is an imprint of the Octopus Publishing
Group). ISBN 0 74970279 6.
* "The Drabble Project", edited by Rob Meads and David B.
Wake. It was published in 1988. The title of Terry's story
is "Incubust".
And that's enough to keep you going for a while, don't you
agree?
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