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Excellent. That's out September/Octoberish, right??

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And it's a sequel to Going Postal, right?

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i so want it. i liked "going postal" very much. pterry isn´t losing his touch at all, some books may be weaker, but then he comes back stronger than ever.

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pterry isn´t losing his touch at all, some books may be weaker, but then he comes back stronger than ever.

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More Terry-news:

Terry Pratchett wrote:
The news here is that Making Money has gone off to the publisher; currently the various works in progress are The Folklore of Discworld, which I am working on with Jacqueline Simpson (co-author of the Lore of the Land, among many other books on folklore), Lu-Tse’s Yearbook of Enlightenment (the next Discworld diary) and Nation, a young adult book for next year, which is not Discworld, and not what people are usually thinking about when they use the term fantasy. I am about 10,000 words into it already and actually wrote about 5,000 words of it when I was at the Australian convention a few weeks ago. Well, if the jetlag means you are wide awake at three o’clock in the morning, why waste the time!

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Hmm...that's cool. Hopefully that means he'll be interested in advertising the book a bit...like answering questions about it on a fan website for a different author who is now deceased and no longer competition.

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Hey! He'll be signing copies in Torrance CA in a week or 2! That's near me! I could drive there with my driving car!

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AUTUMN TOUR REMINDER

Terry's Autumn Making Money tour has been confirmed as follows;

Monday 24th September
7:00pm : Borders #86
3700 Torrance Blvd, Torrance, CA 90503

Tuesday 25th September
7:30pm : Kepler's Books
STE 200 1010 El Camino Menlo Park, CA 94025

Wednesday 26th September
7:00pm : Powell's Bookstore
3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR 97004

Thursday 27th September
7:30pm : Tattered Cover Book Store
1628 16th Sreet, Denver, CO 80202

Saturday 29th September
TBA
The National Book Festival at the Mall, Washington DC

Sunday 30th September
1:00pm : Chester County Book Company
975 Paoli Pike, West Chester, PA 19380

Monday 1st October
7:00pm : Barnes & Noble Union Square
33 E 17th Street, New York, NY 10003

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Saturday 6th October
The Cheltenham Festival

Monday 8th October
Plymouth : 12.30-1.30
WHSmith
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Plymouth
Devon
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Tuesday 9th October
Bath : Evening
Topping & Co
The Paragon
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Friday 12th October
Cambridge : 1pm
Borders
12-13 Market Street
Cambridge
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Saturday 13th October
London : 1pm
Forbidden Planet
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Hey! He'll be signing copies in Torrance CA in a week or 2! That's near me! I could drive there with my driving car!

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I love it when people that aren't me mention my book. It's a good thing.

How big of a throng of people should I expect in Torrance? Does anyone know how popular TP is in the US?

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Heyyy, Torrance, I live right near there! I wanna go!

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See you there perhaps!

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Oh that'd be cool! I don't know if I'm going yet though. If you see a skinny girl wearing a hat, come say hello!

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Oh that'd be cool! I don't know if I'm going yet though. If you see a skinny girl wearing a hat, come say hello!

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:lol:

If you see a girl, smallish, wearing hat, looks nothing like Twiggy, that's probably me!

I do like that hat though!

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At last! In "Making Money" we get to know for the first time (I think) Cut-me-own-throat Dibblers full name!

[spoil]Claude Maximillian Overton Transpire Dibbler, a name biger than the man himself.[/spoil]

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At last! In "Making Money" we get to know for the first time (I think) Cut-me-own-throat Dibblers full name!

[spoil]Claude Maximillian Overton Transpire Dibbler, a name biger than the man himself.[/spoil]


I used to have conversations about PTerry books. Regarding suitable artists to play the characters, should films ever be made! The best player we could find to play cmotd, was Roy Kinnear. He would have been perfect for this role. And I'm not sure that Pterry didn't base the character on him anyway!

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Ordered mine today! Out in September.

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yeah, saw that too! is it discworld? the cover blurb didn´t help much - or i was just too stupid to find the hint. this will go on my christmas list.

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Everything I've read about it says that Nation is not part of the Discworld, Nell.

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Everything I've read about it says that Nation is not part of the Discworld, Nell.


... not that it matters. i just wanted to know. i´m in favour of pterry creating other worlds, expand his creative space, so to speak. so bring it on!

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Ordered mine today! Out in September.

And it's here! Going down town to get it now!

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yeah, saw that too! is it discworld? the cover blurb didn´t help much - or i was just too stupid to find the hint. this will go on my christmas list.


Takes place on our old little earth. Climate catastrophe, giant waves and a small group of hungry and parentless survivors lead by Mau and Daphne, they defy ancestral spirits, challenge death himself, and uncover a long hidden secret that literally turns the world upside down.

I haven't read more than a few pages yet, so I can't say much, but it seems to me to be more teen-pointed than, say, the stories about Tiffany Aching.

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Also, so far, there aren't many jokes. Hardly any, in fact.

I am worried now.

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Nation is surely a different P'Terry book. Gets better in the ending.

..and...not Discworld... not Earth - at least not as we know it. Parallell world maybe. Col Carter should be able to explain it.

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Well, I've finished it. Don't know what to say other than that this was not at all what I expected. It's the first Pterry novel I didn't read all the way through in one go, I made a break and read "Last Chance to see".

Having waited a year for a new Discworld novel or at least some Pterry humour, I am on the one hand very disappointed. On the other hand I can recognize the fact that it's obviously a good teenie-novel, well written and plotted (as always).

But please, no more of this, Pterry!

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i loved it. i didn´t mind one bit that it wasn´t as funny as pterry can be - heck, "night watch" wasn´t funny at all but still damn intriguing. i´ve always felt that he can do different, and thought this was a great story with captivating characters.
nevertheless, i´m looking forward to the next discworld novel. or whatever he feels like writing.

but please, no more lukewarm discworld movie adaptations. do it right, the next time, if you must.

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And it's here! Going down town to get it now!


Just finished this. I wonder if this is Pterrys way of dealing with his own demons? and questioning the God theory?

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the WiseGirl got it for me as a "just because" present

I absolutely loved it!

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The next Discworld book, "The Unseen Academicals", has been announced for October.
Here is the cover art:

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And here's an interview about the book:
http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/ ... eph-adams/

A soccer story about the UU wizards? Hmm. It certainly has all the ingredients to be my least favourite Discworld book of all time. Please surprise me, Pterry!

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Bought it yesterday, haven't got far yet. On the sleeve is a new photo of Terry, and he's got a beard now to match any of the wizards. Big and long enough to hide a chicken in it. He looks very old.

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read it over christmas and enjoyed it. nothing especially special, some aspects could have been more developped i felt, but an enjoyable read nevertheless.
the supporting characters felt more like real human beings, less than like parodies, which i thought was a good thing. i actually expected the book to be more about football (despite the warning) and i also expected more hilarity, but the overall tone was a bit more grown-up, so to speak.

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