Terry Pratchett's Discworld

They're everywhere. They lurk at bus stops. They haunt bookshops (and occasionally staff!). They roam libraries. Sometimes you might see one in a second-hand bookstore, but they usually look very disappointed. Terry Pratchett fans are omnipresent. That girl giggling in the subway? She's one. The businessman guffawing on a park bench, sandwich forgotten beside him? He's another. And the woman with fourteen holes in her ears, torn fishnet stockings and green eyebrows carries a tattered copy of The Light Fantastic in her back pocket. The point is, Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels appeal to just about everyone. It's no wonder his fan base is so broad and varied, for his books display such historical knowledge, humour, philosophy and satire that they couldn't help but have something for everyone. The problem with Pratchett is that he's very, very addictive, which causes angst for those fans in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave for the simple reason that as a UK writer, Pratchett has different publishing deals in the USA, creating complex rights and distribution knots that result in titles being unavailable or years behind the UK publishing schedule. Here is where the friendly Nebula staff come in. Here in the True North Strong and Free we have a polite lifetime Associate Membership in the United Kingdom, and as a happy result we have access to the UK editions. So if you're having trouble completing your Pratchett collection, look no further! (And remember, with the exchange rates the way they are, US customers save almost 40% off these Canadian prices!)

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Night Watch - T Pratchett - Due Nov. 2003 The 27th novel in the phenomenally successful Discworld series. Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. Then the lightning struck and now he’s back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in. Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past, however, is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do: he must track down a murderer, and teach his younger self how to be a good cop... and return to his own time! . .

Monstrous Regiment - T Pratchett - due November 2003 - A sudden burst of nationalism has swept over Polly Perks causing her to cut off her hair, don her brother’s clothes and join the local regiment so she can fight for her country. But there’s only one problem -- she has no idea who she’ll be fighting or what she is really fighting for. And why do they want her to have a rolled-up pair of socks anyway? War teaches you a lot, she finds, when it turns out that you joined -- the Monstrous Regiment. . .

Art of Discworld - Terry Pratchett - 0575075112 - MacArthur Books . $34.95 Canadian funds . .
PRE-ORDER ONLY - AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 2003!! Paul Kidby is Terry Pratchett's artist of choice when it comes to the Discworld, and so who better to take you on a guided tour of the characters that people Pratchett's phenomenally successful world? The City Watch, including Vimes, Carrot and Angua, the three witches - Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick - and the denizens of the Unseen University Library, not forgetting the Librarian, of course: they're all here in sumptuous colour, together with the places: Ankh-Morpork, Lancre, Uberwald . . . And Terry Pratchett himself will provide the words to every picture, while Paul Kidby occasionally steps out from behind his canvas to describe what influences his choice of subject matter and where he gets his ideas from.THE ART OF THE DISCWORLD will be a 112-page large-size hardback to sit alongside Pratchett and Kidby's bestselling THE LAST HERO. No Discworld fan will want to be without this beautiful gift book.

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The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett - 0385605331 - Doubledy Books . $28.00 Canadian funds . .
A young adult novel. Tiffany, an extremely competent nine-year-old, takes care of her irritating brother, makes good cheese on her father's farm, and knows how to keep secrets. When monsters from Fairyland invade her world and her brother disappears, Tiffany, armed only with her courage, clear-sightedness, a manual of sheep diseases, and an iron frying pan, goes off to find him. Her search leads her to a showdown with the Fairy Queen.

Night Watch - Terry Pratchett - 0552148997 - Corgi Books . $11.99 Canadian funds . .
PRE-ORDER ONLY - AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 2003!! The 27th novel in the phenomenally successful Discworld series. Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. Then the lightning struck and now he’s back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in. Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past, however, is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do: he must track down a murderer, and teach his younger self how to be a good cop... and return to his own time!

Science of Discworld II: The Globe - In The Science of Discworld II our authors join forces again to see just what happens when the wizards meddle with history in a battle against the elves for the future of humanity on Earth. London is replaced by a dozy Neanderthal village. The Renaissance is given a push. The role of fat women in art is developed. And one very famous playwright gets born and writes The Play. Weaving together a fast-paced Discworld novelette with cutting-edge scientific commentary on the evolution and development of the human mind, culture, language, art, and science, The Globe presents a fascinating and brilliantly original view of the world we live in. The scene of the final epic battle is the first production of A Midsummer's Night Dream at the Globe Theatre. By Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen

Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett - Ballentine Books . $10.95 Canadian funds . .
One rat, popping up here and there, squeaking loudly, and taking a bath in the cream, could be a plague all by himself. After a few days of this, it was amazing how glad people were to see the kid with his magical rat pipe. And they were amazing when the rats followed hint out of town. They'd have been really amazed if they'd ever found out that the rats and the piper met up with a cat somewhere outside of town and solemnly counted out the money. The Amazing Maurice runs the perfect Pied Piper scam. This streetwise alley cat knows the value of cold, hard cash and can talk his way into and out of anything. But when Maurice and his cohorts decide to con the town of Bad Blinitz, it will take more than fast talking to survive the danger that awaits. For this is a town where food is scarce and rats are hated, where cellars are lined with deadly traps, and where a terrifying evil lurks beneath the hunger-stricken streets....Set in Terry Pratchett's widely popular Discworld, this masterfully crafted, gripping read is both compelling and funny. When one of the world's most acclaimed fantasy writers turns a classic fairy tale on its head, no one will ever look at the Pied Piper -- or rats -- the same way again!

Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett - 0552146153 - Corgi - $8.99 Canadian Funds . .
On Discworld®, it's not a good time to be a priest, especially when you're caught up in a war between vampires and witches. The vamps are out of the casket and want a bite of the future. To get rid of them, you'll need more than a garlic enema. Nanny Ogg, Granny Weatherwax and the rest are back.

City Watch Trilogy - Guards! Guards! - Men At Arms - Feet Of Clay - A Discworld Omnibus - 0575067985 - Victor Gollanz Publishing - 760 pages - hardcover - $34.95 Canadian .
From the cover "The City Watch is a bumper volume containing three of Terry Pratchett's celebrated novels in which those noble defenders of Ankh-Morpork, the great city of the Discworld, come face to face with some of the most heinous crimes in history."

The Colour Of Magic - Terry Pratchett - 0552124753 - Corgi - $7.99 Canadian funds . .
On a world moving on the back of a giant turtle, an expedition sets out led by Rincewind, an inept wizard, a naïve tourist with luggage moving on hundreds of little legs, dragons who exist only if you believe in them...

The Discworld® Companion - Terry Pratchett - 0575074671 - Gollancz - $24.95 Canadian funds
The New Discworld Companion, latest revision of the original 1994 Discworld Companion. Once again the alphabetical round-up of Discworld's people, places, creatures, organisations, books, food and miscellanea draws its material not only from the first 30 Discworld novels and novellas--from The Colour of Magic to The Wee Free Men--but from associated maps, guides, diaries, cookbooks, short stories and two volumes of The Science of Discworld.

Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett - 0552131059 - Corgi - $7.99 Canadian funds. . .
On his death bed, the wizard, Drum Billet, passed on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately, he didn't check on the new-born baby's sex...

Eric - Terry Pratchett (with Josh Kirby)- 0575600012 - Vista - $7.99 Canadian Funds . .
Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. Too bad he's not very good at it. All he wants is three wishes. But instead of a demon, he calls up Rincewind and his hostile form of travel accessory known as the Luggage.

Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett - 0552142379 - Corgi - $7.99 Canadian Funds . .
The City Watch have to track down a murderer who can't be seen. Maybe the golems know something but the solemn men of clay have started to commit suicide. And the Watch has troubles of its own. There's a werewolf suffering from Pre-Lunar Tension, Corporal Nobbs is hobnobbing with the nobs and there is something quite odd about the new dwarf recruit, especially his earrings and eyeshadow.

The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett - 0552146461 320 pages, Doubleday publishing . $9.95 Canadian funds . .
From the cover "Sam Vimes is a man on the run. Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of police and the ambassador to the mysterious, fat-rich country of Uberwald. Now he has nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Ungle Vanya (don't ask). It's snowing. It's freezing. And if he can't make it through the forest to civilization there's going to be a terrible war. But there are monsters on his trail. They're bright. They're fast. They're werewolves - and they're catching up. Sam Vimes is out of time, out of luck and already out of breath .... Terry Pratchett's latest instalment in the Discworld cycle, this time starring dwarfs, diplomacy, intrigue and big lumps of fat."

Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett - 0552134627 - Corgi - $7.99 Canadian Funds
The dragons lie dormant. 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.

Guards! Guards! The Play - Terry Pratchett - 0552144312 - Corgi - $21.00 Canadian Funds LIMITED QUANTITIES! HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE! . .
A dramatisation by Stephen Briggs, despite the need for at least one swamp dragon, one orang-utan ad one 60 foot dragon.

Hogfather - Terry Pratchett - 0552145424 - Corgi - $8.99 Canadian Funds . .
It's the night before Hogswatch, the Discworld® version of Christmas and it's too quiet. There's snow, but no big fat man who delivers the toys. Susan, Death's granddaughter, has got to find him before morning, otherwise the sun won't rise. Unfortunately her only helpers are a raven with an eyeball fixation, the Death of Rats and an oh god of hangovers.

Interesting Times - Terry Pratchett - 0552142352 - Corgi - $7.99 Canadian Funds . .
The oldest, inscrutable Discworld empire is in turmoil, due to the revolutionary treatise What I Did On My Holidays. War (and Clancy) are spreading through the ancient cities. Salvation arrives in the form of Rincewind the Wizard, who can't even spell the word, wizard and Cohen the barbarian, five foot tall in his surgical sandals.

Jingo - Terry Pratchett - 055214598x - Corgi - $8.99 Canadian Funds . .
Ankh-Morpork gets involved in a war with Klatch and the Discworld® equivalent of Atlantis, Leshp, is about to rise. It is up to the Watch, Vimes, Colon et al., to sally forth and prevent it all..

The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett - 0552146145 - Corgi - $8.99 Canadian Funds . .
On Discworld®'s last continent, practically everything that isn't poisonous is venomous. Striding across the red desert comes a hero -- champion sheep shearer, road warrior, beer drinker, bush ranger and someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's sober? It's a man in a hat, whose Luggage follows him on little legs, who's about to change history... it's Rincewind, the inept wizard who can't even spell wizard.

The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett - 0552128481 - Corgi - $7.99 Canadian funds. . .
As Discworld moves towards a collision with a malevolent red star, there is only one possible saviour, Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world.

Lords and Ladies - Terry Pratchett - 0552138916 - Corgi - $7.99 Canadian Funds . .
Magrat Garlick, witch, is going to be married in the morning... But the Lancre All-Comers Morris Team got drunk on a fairy mound and the elves came back, bringing all those things traditionally associated with Faerie: cruelty, kidnapping, malice, and evil murder. Granny Weatherwax and her tiny coven to the rescue...

Maskerade - Terry Pratchett - 0552142360 - Corgi - $7.99 Canadian Funds . .
Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick return to The Opera House in Ankh-Morpork, where masked figures and hooded shadows do wicked deeds in the wings and where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by an evil mastermind in a hideously deformed evening dress.

Men at Arms - Terry Pratchett - 0552140287 - Corgi - $7.99 Canadian Funds . .
The City Watch includes Carrot (technically a dwarf), Cuddy (really a dwarf), Detritus (a troll), Angua (a woman... most of the time), and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving). Their job is complicated because there's evil in the air, murder's afoot, and something very nasty in the streets.

Men at Arms: The Play - Terry Pratchett - 0552144320 - Corgi - $21.00 Canadian Funds LIMITED QUANTITIES! HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE! . .
A dramatisation by Stephen Briggs. The City Watch must face another threat at least as deadly as a 60 foot dragon: the first gun on the Discworld.

Mort - Terry Pratchett- 0552131067 - Corgi - $7.99 Canadian funds. . .
Death comes to everyone. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job.

Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett - 0552134635 - Corgi - $7.99 Canadian Funds . .
The Discworld alchemists 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 discover it.

Pyramids - Terry Pratchett - 0552134619 - Roc - $7.99 Canadian Funds . .
Being trained by the Assassin's Guild wasn't Teppic's cup of tea when he inherited the throne of the Djelibeybi rather earlier than he expected (his father wasn't too happy about it either). The Discworld take on Ancient Egypt!

Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett - 0552134643 - Corgi - $7.99 Canadian Funds . .
Death is missing. Dead Rights activist, Reg Shoe, suddenly has more work than he wanted. And newly-dead Windle Poons, a wizard, wakes up in his coffin as a corpse. Far away, a tall, dark farm hand is becoming really good with a scythe.

Science of Discworld - Terry Pratchett - 0091874777 - Random publishing . $11.99 Canadian funds . .
When a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe on their hands: Roundworld, where neither magic nor common sense seems to stand a chance against logic. The Universe, of course, is our own. And Roundworld is Earth. As the wizards watch their accidental creation grow, we follow the story of our universe from the primal singularity of the Big Bang to the Internet and beyond. Through this original Terry Pratchett story (with intervening chapters from Cohen and Stewart) we discover how puny and insignificant individual lives are against a cosmic backdrop of creation and disaster. Yet, paradoxically, we see how the richness of a universe based on rules, has led to a complex world and at least one species that tried to get a grip of what was going on... Terry Pratchett is the bestselling author of the Discworld novels; Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick; Jack Cohen is a biologist and science writer.

Small Gods - Terry Pratchett - 0552138908 - Corgi - $7.99 Canadian Funds . .
Brutha has been chosen. His god has spoken to him. Brutha is a simple lad, but, he's quite good at growing melons. Among other things, he wants peace, justice, and brotherly love. But what he wants, more than anything, is for his god to choose someone else.

Soul Music - Terry Pratchett - 0552140295 - Corgi - $7.99 Canadian Funds . .
Other children get xylophones as presents but Susan just asked her grandfather to take his vest off. It's hard to grow up normal when Grandfather rides a white horse (Binky) and wields a scythe -- especially when you have to take over the family business, and everyone mistakes you for the Tooth Fairy.

Sourcery - Terry Pratchett - 0552131075 - Corgi - $7.99 Canadian Funds. . .
An eighth son of an eighth son was a wizard. However, he had seven sons. And then an eighth son... a wizard squared... a Sourcerer.

Thief Of Time - Terry Pratchett - Corgi publishing . $10.99 Canadian funds . .
TIME IS A RESOURCE. EVERYONE KNOWS IT HAS TO BE MANAGED. And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like underwater -- how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities where there's never enough time. But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will only be the start of everyone's problems. Thief of Time comes complete with a full supporting cast of heroes and villains, yetis, martial artists and Ronnie, the fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (who left before they became famous).

Tourist Guide to Lancre - Terry Pratchett - 0552146080 publishing . $12.95 Canadian funds
Between Uberwald and Whale Bay, the Octarine Grass Country and the Widdershins Ocean lies the most exciting and dangerous terrain in all Discworld. This is a map of Lancre, where Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick live. A map of Discworld's most-feared terrain.

The Truth - Terry Pratchett - 316 pages, Corgi publishing . $9.99 Canadian funds . .
The Twenty-Fifth Discworld Novel! William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life - people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humourously shaped potatoes. William just wants to get at The Truth. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...

Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett - 0552134651 - Corgi - $7.99 Canadian Funds . .
For Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick, witches travelling to Genua, things are never simple. They've got Mrs Gogol's voodoo, a one-eyed cat and a second-hand magic wand that can only do pumpkins.

Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett - 0552134600 - Corgi - $7.99 Canadian Funds . .
Granny Weatherwax found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more difficult than certain playwrights would have you believe. The Discworld take on Shakespeare!

The Unadulterated Cat - Terry Pratchett - 0752853694 - MacArthur - $18.95 Canadian Funds . .
Can you recognize 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. Terry Pratchett took a side step away from Discworld in The Unadulterated Cat, a hilarious insight into the world of the feline. Amusingly illustrated by cartoonist Gray Jolliffe, Pratchett delivers a wonderfully funny collection of anecdotes that anyone, cat owner or not, will be hard pressed not to smile at. Not quite a replacement for a Discworld novel, but your sides will split just the same.

Good Omens - Terry Pratchett - 0552137030 - Corgi - $7.99 Canadian Funds . .
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 stop the Four Motorcyclists of the Apocalypse, defeat the Witchfinder Army and find and kill the Antichrist -- an eleven-year-old boy who loves his dog.

Dark Side of the Sun - Terry Pratchett - 0552133264 - Random - $9.99 Canadian Funds . .
Dom Salabos had a lot of advantages. As heir to a huge fortune he had an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuitry), 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?