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Varieties of the Swamp Dragon

(From The Last Hero, by Terry Pratchett and Paul Kidby)

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Btw if anyone's interested, I just discovered these annotated files that... Basically explain every joke in the discworld books, for those who (like me) tend not to get it the organic way lol. Some of em are very obvious, but some I hadn't even noticed before, so, worth a read!

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Here's the full entry for Flora's Dial, Sir Terry Pratchett's favourite!

Terry Pratchett's foreword to the 17th Edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (John Ayto)

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For the Star Wars Day (May the Fourth / May the Force Be With You) there was shared (with the permission of the Pratchett Estate ) a Terry Pratchett story from the Star Wars Universe that was only published in a newspaper 45 years ago! Very excited to read a new Terry's piece! :)❤ (tweet)

Also, Terry Pratchett writing fanfiction 45 years ago, can I hear a wahoo? :)

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Ankh-Morpork The city-state that is the oldest city on the DISCWORLD in the novels of Terry Pratchett. It straddles the River Ankh, and it is home to the Unseen University, a seminary of wizardry. The language spoken there is Latatian.

Rincewind. An incompetent wizard in the DISCWORLD novels of Terry Pratchett. He is Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography at the Unseen University. He was present at the creation of the Discworld, and brought about the origin of life by dropping an egg-and-cress sandwich into the sea. For his name he appears to be indebted to Churm Rincewind, one of BEACHCOMBER's 12 red-bearded dwarfs.

— Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 20th Edition (Susie Dent)

Discworld The setting of the comic fantasies by the novelist Terry Pratchett (b. 1948), a flat planet supported by four elephants riding through space on a giant turtle. There is no central character in the stories, although Death appears in each and is prominent in several. The first book in the sequence, The Colour of Magic (1983), was essentially a parody of H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) and other fantasy writers, but the series went on to create a world of its own, each of the volumes being self-contained. Much of the enjoyment of the stories derives from the strange names of characters and places, such as the wizard Igneous Cutwell, the kingdom of Djelibeybi, the Unseen Univesity situated in ANKH-MORPORK and Lady Sybil Olgivanna Ramkin, the latter's richest resident, married to Commander Samuel Vimes. See also RINCEWIND.

— Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 19th Edition (Susie Dent)

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Terry Pratchett's foreword to the 17th Edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (John Ayto)

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Author's Note, The Carpet People (new edition), 1991.

"This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.

The Carpet People was published in 1971. It had a lot of things wrong with it, mostly to do with being written by someone who was seventeen at the time.

And then about seven years ago, the Discworld books began to sell, and people would buy them and say, 'Here, what's this book The Carpet People by The Same Author?' and the publishers got so fed up with telling people that there was no demand for it that they decided it was time for a new edition.

Which was read by Terry Pratchett, aged forty three, who said: hang on. I wrote that in the days when I thought fantasy was all battles and kings. Now I'm inclined to think that the real concerns of fantasy ought to be about not having battles, and doing without kings. I'll just rewrite it here and there...

Well, you know how it is when you tweak a thread that's hanging loose.

So this is it. It's not exactly the book I wrote then. It's not exactly the book I'd write now. It's a joint effort but, heh heh, I don't have to give them half the royalties. He'd only waste them.

You asked for it. Here it is. Thanks.

Incidentally, the size of the city of Ware is approximately -> · "

— Terry Pratchett, 15 September 1991

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Discworld The setting of the comic fantasies by the novelist Terry Pratchett (b. 1948), a flat planet supported by four elephants riding through space on a giant turtle. There is no central character in the stories, although Death appears in each and is prominent in several. The first book in the sequence, The Colour of Magic (1983), was essentially a parody of H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) and other fantasy writers, but the series went on to create a world of its own, each of the volumes being self-contained. Much of the enjoyment of the stories derives from the strange names of characters and places, such as the wizard Igneous Cutwell, the kingdom of Djelibeybi, the Unseen Univesity situated in ANKH-MORPORK and Lady Sybil Olgivanna Ramkin, the latter's richest resident, married to Commander Samuel Vimes. See also RINCEWIND.

— Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 19th Edition (Susie Dent)

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Arriving this November, Designing Terry Pratchett's Discworld takes readers behind the scenes of the amazing partnership between Sir Terry Pratchett and artist Paul Kidby. This is an unmissable insight into one of the great literary partnerships, packed full of hitherto unseen art and the real stories behind it.

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The Discworld Emporium has a brand new 1000 piece Glorious Revolution jigsaw puzzle, illustrated by David Wyatt!

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Discworld in Audio

Here's your reminder/announcement that the new City Watch series audiobooks are available TODAY (25th May 2023)!

Here's a complete list of the audiobooks available so far.

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Via @rhiannapratchett at Twitter: “BIG NEWS! Grab your frying pans and start practicing your hard stare, there’s witching afoot! Delighted to be collaborating with @GabrielleKent, @PaulKidby and @PuffinBooks to bring this in-world guide to aspiring witches everywhere. Updates soon!”

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I've never posted it on this blog before but I was reminded of this video this morning so here you go!

Moist Von Lipwig (Richard Coyle), Groat (Andrew Sachs), Stanley (Ian Bonar) and Mr Pump (Marnix Van Den Broeke) on the set of Terry Pratchett's 'Going Postal' (2010)

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2023 will be the Year of the Querulous Megapode!

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The Compleat Ankh-Morpork (2012)

Trailer for The Compleat Ankh-Morpork (2012) by Terry Pratchett (aided and abetted by The Discworld Emporium)

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2023 will be the Year of the Querulous Megapode!

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“J.R.R. Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Sometimes it’s big and up close. Sometimes it’s a shape on the horizon. Sometimes it’s not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is in fact standing on Mt. Fuji.”

— Terry Pratchett