I’d seen the threads, but until two Christmases ago when Shayna and Spiny Norman gave me Reaper Man and Witches Abroad the only Terry Pratchett I’d read was Good Omens back in the '90s.
Now I’ve read them all (except the YA books) through Thud, which I read Friday. I’m waiting for Making Money to come out in mass-market paperback (next September).
Told ya so!
The Tiffany Aching books aren’t bad, either. Now you’ve got to start collecting them in hardback, or hardback First Editions, or hardback, First Edition, British, Signed…
Don’t forget the Science of Discworld books! And the Art of Discworld book! And the Mapps of Ankh-Morpork, Lancre, and Death’s Domain!
And don’t forget the Johnny Maxwell trilogy, the Bromeliad Trilogy, The Carpet People, that proto-discworld book; Strata, and that other one, something Side of the Sun.
Never mind reading about it ,I’ve read and re read everything DW many,many times,now I want to live there.
I would,given the choice be an Assassin trained special envoy for Lord Vetinarri with a holiday home in Uberwald.
And play the video games, watch the animated episodes, and the recent live action mini-series (another is on its way), play the CD, and collect the figurines, the stamps, the calendars, the diaries, and the large format illustrated edition of Eric.
Just thought of this: How are the years reckoned on Discworld? They talk about The Year Of The Fruitbat, but then they have a reference to something that happened in 1806. It seems I read an explanation in one of the books, but I don’t remember.
Does this help?
We are now in “The Year of the Three Roses,” having just left “The Year of the Signifying Frog.”
And I believe it was the Century of the Fruitbat, not the year of.
The Disc calendar is based on the founding of Unseen University in 1UC, which was also the year 1282AM, reckoned from the founding of the city of Ankh-Morpork. The events of The Colour of Magic occur in 1964UC.