In 2008, Harper Children's published Terry's standalone non-Discworld YA novel, Nation. The first of these, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal.Ī non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback - Harper Torch, 2006 - and trade paperback - Harper Paperbacks, 2006).

There are over 40 books in the Discworld series, of which four are written for children. Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. He was was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours.Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels. Terry Pratchett was an English humorist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. Oh, and on top of that, they must somehow win a football match without using magic.Īnd the thing about football-the most important thing about football-is that it is never just about football. To begin with, they have to figure out just what it is that makes this sport of foot-the-ball so popular with Ankh-Morporkians of all ages and social strata. So when Lord Vetinari, the city's benevolent tyrant, strongly suggests to Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully that the university put forth a football team composed of faculty, students, and staff-or lose the funding that pays for their nine daily meals-the more-than-usually-at-sea UU wizards find themselves in a quandary. The wizards at Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University are renowned for many things-wisdom, magic, their love of teatime-but athletics is most assuredly not on the list.

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