Pratchett’s filled in most of the geography of the top side of Discworld. What’s on the bottom? Perhaps he could collaborate with Niven on ‘The Discworld Engineers’.
Lessee…he did cell phones (clacks)
Movies…
Shopping…
Fairy Tales…
Hm. High fashion?
The English General Elections are already ramping up, I’m thinking probably more politics.
Nope. I’m with Lumpy on this one. More Granny, more Susan!
I think we are going to see more books like the last one, with major characters in supporting roles and new characters emerging. He is exploring the whole Industrial Revolution, after all.
A Granny/Susan/Death book would be good. I think Granny Weatherwax could easily face down death in the proper circumstances.
Though I liked Going Postal a lot, I’m a bit tired of giving Discworld one more thing modern Earth has. I’d love a good Rincewind book, but I fear pTerry has moved beyond him. I bet we are going to get a Same Vimes does diplomacy book. His role in Monstrous Regiment (which I did not like) was very interesting, and I’d like more of that kind of stuff, as Ankh-Moorpork becomes more like England. Eventually, I think, Tiffany might move into the mainstream of the stories, but it won’t be for a while yet.
And don’t diss my honey Susan! I fell for her when, in Hogfather, she instead of telling the kids there were no monsters under the bed, dragged out the monsters and showed them who’s boss.
Eh, she did that already. Played Cripple Mr. Onion with Death for the life of a baby and made Death take the cow instead. I don’t recall which book.
I like Granny Weatherwax, and I’d like to know what happned to the preacher she fought the vampires with. But I’d like more to have a flashback book to just before we meet Vimes, from the younger Vimes’ point of view.
Not exactly. The cow had kicked the pregnant mother and Granny played for the right to choose whether the mother or the baby lived. She also probably saved the cow by telling Nanny to make sure that the father didn’t kill it. Granny’s tough. .
For that matter, how about one where we find out how Vimes was “brung low by the bottle and by a woman.” The woman may be Ankh-Morpork, but seeing Vimes lose his idealism and start the slide would be interesting, especially when Pterry adds his usual history and complications. Perhaps it coincides with the begining of the rise of Vetenari…
You guys should check out the L-Space information on Thud. Expect a few Buffy/Hammer-Horror references. I’ve also seen some spectuation that the Watch is going to go to custard, but I can’t seem to remember where I found it.