Discworld - Raising Taxes. Info?

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I did a search on this and found nothing (OMG! Despite complaining about people doing searches Lobsang has… done a search!)

Does anyone know more about the supposed next ‘grown up’ (i.e. non kid - Tiffany Aching) discworld book? Such as release date?

I do know it’s a third book for Moist von Lipwig. Not complaining - I liked the other two and I like Moist.

I would like to see (yes) yet more city Watch books. I do hope Terry doesn’t think he’s done enough of them.

I’d also be interested in seeing another book with William De-Worde as the central character.

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As far as I know, no release date has been given. The schedule seems to be:

  1. Non Discworld book (“Nation”)-should be done by August
  2. New Tiffany Aching book(“I Shall Wear Midnight”?)
  3. New Discworld book…probably Raising Taxes
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Because of his illness, and just because he’s getting older, Terry’s slowed down his productivity somewhat. He used to release two new books per year (though the second book was often much shorter, like the Bromeliad or Johnny Maxwell books) and then that slowed down to 1.5 a year. Now it’s just one per annum, and who knows, he may even slow down again, depending on how he chooses to manage his early-onset alzheimers.

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Well that really stinks. Early-onset Alzheimers; I hadn’t heard about it until you mentioned it. Here’s sending you good thoughts Pterry!

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As an aside, does anyone know if Corgi has published Making Money as a paperback yet, or are they planning to do it at all? I have all the other books in the series as paperbacks and the large hardcover edition won’t fit into my bookshelf… I’ve been holding out buying it until then.

Edit: found it on Amazon.uk, it’s coming out in June. Good grief. The others came out as paperbacks much quicker.

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In Making Money, Pterry taught us a lot more about practical economics than you would expect of a fantasy-humor novel – but he never addressed in any way the problems of the money supply and inflation. Moist von Lipwig, as president of the Royal Bank and Royal Mint, has devised a system by which he can print and distribute as much money as he wants, with no controls. It seems never to have occurred to him that the more dollars there are in circulation, the lower is the purchasing power of each one. (Which would displease the Patrician sooner or later.) And it makes no difference, in that regard, whether the currency is backed by gold or golems.

I hope Raising Taxes will at least touch on this.

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*(Which would displease the Patrician sooner or later.) *

This is why it never occured to him, and why that kind of inflation won’t be a problem for the foreseeable future! :smiley:

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No, I mean, it never seems to have occurred to Moist that he should think about limiting the money supply or why. He’s given no hint at any point that he understands what inflation is, and for that matter neither has the Patrician. Neither seems to have thought about the problem at all. Both of them will be equally surprised when it happens.

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Well, it should take more than a little while for paper money to completely supplant gold and silver. Then you have the growing economy of A-M, and the new public works projects envisioned by the Patrician. Inflation shouldn’t be a problem for the next few books at least. But Pterry might make a bit of a mention about it in the next book. You never can tell.