ields a scythe - especially when you have to take over the family business, and everyone mistakes you for the Tooth Fairy. And especially when you have to face the new and addictive music that has entered the Discworld. It's Lawless. It changes people. It's called _Music with Rocks In._ It's got a beat and you can dance to it, but ... It's _alive._ And it won't fade away. p/b blurb: OTHER CHILDREN GET GIVEN XYLOPHONES. SUSAN JUST HAD TO ASK HER GRANDFATHER TO TAKE HIS VEST OFF. Yes. There's a Death in the Family. It's hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe - especially when you have to take over the family business, and everyone mistakes you for the Tooth Fairy. And *especially* when you have to face the new and addictive music that has entered Discworld. It's lawless. It changes people. It's called *Music with Rocks In.* It's got a beat and you can dance to it, but... It's *alive.* And it won't fade away. ---------------------------------------- 1.17 The Witches Trilogy %A Terry Pratchett %T The Witches Trilogy %I W.H.Smith (exclusive edition) (h/cvr) %D 9/94 ISBN (not known: none may apply) %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) [n.b. the pages of this h/cvr are not properly sewn in signatures, and then sewn to a backing strip of cloth that is then bound between the boards of the cover: they are merely trimmed and glued to a flexible bound-in backing strip.] %D 3/95 [this edition now out of print (mid 1998) may be reprinting.] ISBN 0-575-05896-X [no reprint seen as of 6/99.] Omnibus collecting Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad. Witches are not by nature gregarious and they certainly don't have leaders. Granny Weatherwax was the most highly regarded of the leaders they didn't have... Here are three novels featuring one of Terry Pratchett's most celebrated characters, along with her sidekicks, the fertile Nanny Ogg and the New Age's favourite witch, Magrat Garlick: EQUAL RITES Women aren't supposed to be wizards - but nobody told Eskarina, the eighth daughter of an eighth son, when she inherited her father's [sic] staff, and with Granny Weatherwax's reluctant help she sets out to learn her new calling. WYRD SISTERS In which Granny discovers that meddling in royal politics is a _lot_ more difficult than certain playwrights would have you believe. WITCHES ABROAD The funniest Grand Tour anywhere, as Granny, Nanny and Magrat travel to distant Genua - to make sure a servant girl _doesn't_ marry the prince. ---------------------------------------- 1.18 Interesting Times %A Terry Pratchett %T Interesting Times. %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) %D 11/94 ISBN 0-575-05800-5 %I Corgi (p/b) %D 11/95 ISBN 0-552-14235-2 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 7/96 ISBN 0-552-14425-8 %I Isis (six-cassette audio/b) %D 1995 ISBN 1-85695-814-0 %I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr) (cvr: michael sabanosh) %D 4/97 ISBN 0-06-105252-3 %I HarperPrism (mmp/b) %D 4/98 ISBN 0-06-105690-1 %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) ["letterbox" design d-j] %D 23/9/99 [delayed from 5, then 6, then 8/99 by cassell's sale to orion] ISBN 0-575-.....-. there is also a large-print h/cvr edn: %I Isis %D (not yet known) ISBN (not yet known) h/cvr blurb: Mighty Battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and his sons Terror and Panic, and Daughter Clancy). The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise *What I Did On My Holidays*. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. Warlords are struggling for power. War (and Clancy) are spreading through the ancient cities. And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is: Rincewind the Wizard, who can't even spell the word `wizard'... Cohen the barbarian hero, five foot tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime's experience of not dying ... ...and a very /special/ butterfly. p/b blurb: MIGHTY BATTLES! REVOLUTION! DEATH! WAR! (AND HIS SONS TERROR AND PANIC, AND DAUGHTER CLANCY). The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise *What I Did On My Holidays*. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. War (and Clancy) are spreading through the ancient cities. And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is: Rincewind the Wizard, who can't even spell the word `wizard'... Cohen the barbarian hero, five foot tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime's experience of not dying ... ...and a very *special* butterfly. ---------------------------------------- 1.19 Maskerade %A Terry Pratchett %T Maskerade %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) [first h/cvr with letterbox style d-j. ab initio.] %D 11/95 (actually available in october) ISBN 0-575-05808-0 %I corgi (p/b) %D 11/96 ISBN 0-552-14236-0 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 11/96 ISBN 0-552-14426-6 %I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr) (cvr: carl d. galian) %D 10/97 ISBN 0-06-105251-5 %I HarperPrism (mmp/b) %D 10/98 ISBN 0-06-105691-X h/cvr blurb: The Opera House, Ankh Morpork . . . a huge, rambling building, where masked figures and hooded shadows do wicked deeds in the wings . . . where dying the death on stage is a little bit more than just a metaphor . . . where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by an evil mastermind in a hideously deformed evening dress . . . Where . . . there's a couple of old ladies in pointy hats eating peanuts in the stalls and looking at the big chandelier and saying things like: 'There's an accident waiting to happen if ever I saw one'. Yes . . . Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, the Discworld's greatest witches, are back for an innocent night at the opera. So there's going to be _trouble_ (but nevertheless a good evening's entertainment with murders you can really _hum_) p/b blurb: The Opera House, Ankh Morpork . . . a huge, rambling building, where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by an evil mastermind in a hideously deformed evening dress... At least, he hopes so. But Granny Weatherwax, Discworld's most famous witch, is in the audience. _And she doesn't hold with that sort of thing._ So there's going to be _trouble_ (but nevertheless a good evening's entertainment with murders you can really _hum_...) ---------------------------------------- 1.20 Feet of Clay %A Terry Pratchett %T Feet of Clay %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) [h/cvr with letterbox style dj. ab initio.] %D 5/96 (actually available in april) [csm has advised date 6/6/96 !] ISBN 0-575-05900-1 %I Corgi (p/b) %D 2/5/97 (actually available from 28/4/97) ISBN 0-552-14237-9 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 1/7/97 (actually available 30/6/97) ISBN 0-552-14573-4 %I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr) (cvr: - ? - [not seen]) %D 10/96 ISBN 0-06-10....-. (n.y.k.) %I HarperPrism (mmp/b) (cvr: michael sabanosh) %D 10/97 ISBN 0-06-105764-9 h/cvr blurb: Who's murdering harmless old men? who's poisoning the Patrician? As autumn fogs hold Anhk-Morpork in their grip, 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, who work all day and night and are never any trouble to anyone, have started to commit suicide ... It's not as if the Watch hasn't got problems of its own. There's a werewolf suffering from Pre-Lunar Tension. Corporal Nobbs is hob-nobbing with the nobs, and there's something really strange about the new dwarf recruit, especially his earrings and eyeshadow. Who can you trust when there are mobs on the streets and plotters in the dark and all the clues point the wrong way? In the gloom of the night, Watch Commander Sir Samuel Vimes finds that the truth might not be out there at all. *_It may be in amongst the words in the head._* A chilling tale of poison and pottery. p/b blurb: THERE'S A WEREWOLF WITH PRE-LUNAR TENSIOM IN ANKH-MORPORK. AND A DWARF WITH ATTITUDE AND A GOLEM WHO'S BEGUN TO THINK FOR ITSELF. But for Commander Vimes, Head of Ankh-Morpork City Watch, that's only the start... There's treason in the air. A crime has happened. He's not only got to find out whodunit, but howdunit too. He's not even sure what they dun. But as soon as he knows what the questions are, he's going to want some answers. ---------------------------------------- 1.21 Hogfather %A Terry Pratchett %T Hogfather %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) [h/cvr with letterbox style dj. ab initio.] %D 11/96 (actually available 10/96) ISBN 0-575-06403-X %I Corgi (p/b) %D 2/11/97 [announced] (actually on sale in netherlands & scandawegia 10/97) ISBN 0-552-14542-4 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 12/12/97 (was scheduled for 1/11/97) ISBN 0-552-14574-2 %I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr) %D 10/98 ISBN 0-06-105046-6 %I HarperPrism (mmp/b) %D 10/99 [scheduled] ISBN 0-06-10....-. (n.y.k.) h/cvr blurb: It's the night before Hogswatch. And it's too quiet. There's snow, there're robins, there're trees covered with decora- tions, but there's a notable lack of the big fat man who delivers the toys . . . He's _gone_. Susan the governess has got to find him before morning, otherwise the sun won't rise. And unfortunately her only helpers are a raven with an eyeball fixation, the Death of Rats and an oh god of hang- overs. Worse still, _someone_ is coming down the chimney. This time he's carrying a sack instead of a scythe, but there's something regret- tably familiar . . . Ho. Ho. Ho. It's true what they say. `_You'd better watch out . . ._' p/b blurb: IT'S THE NIGHT BEFORE HOGSWATCH. AND IT'S TOO QUIET. Where is the big jolly fat man? Why is _Death_ creeping down chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho? The darkest night of the year is getting a lot darker... Susan the gothic governess has got to sort it out by morning, otherwise there won't _be_ a morning. Ever again... [The 20th..novel..a festive feast of darkness and Death (but with jolly robins and tinsel too).] As they say: You'd better watch out... ---------------------------------------- 1.22 Jingo %A Terry Pratchett %T Jingo %I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) [h/cvr with letterbox style dj. ab initio.] %D 6/11/97 [on sale in uk by 22/10/98] ISBN 0-575-06540-0 %I Corgi (p/b) %D 5/11/98 ISBN 0-552-14598-X %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.) %D 5/11/98 ISBN 0-552-14684-6 %I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr) %D 5/98 ISBN 0-06-105047-4 (cover art by michael sabanosh) %I HarperPrism (mmp/b) %D 3/99 ISBN 0-06-105906-4 (cover art by michael sabanosh) h/cvr blurb: A weather cock has risen from the sea of Discworld, and suddenly you can tell which way the wind is blowing. A new land has surfaced, and so have old feuds. And as two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch has got just a few hours to deal with a crime so big that there's no law against it. It's called `war'. He's facing unpleasant foes who are out to get him... that's just the people on _his_ side. The enemy might be even worse. And his pocket Dis-organiser says he's got _Die_ under `Things To Do Today'. But he'd better not, because the world's cleverest inventor and its most devious politician are on their way to the battlefield with a little package that's _guaranteed_ to stop a battle... Discworld goes to war, with armies of sardines, warriors, fishermen, squid and at least one very camp follower. p/b blurb: DISCWORLD GOES TO WAR, WITH ARMIES OF SARDINES, WARRIORS, FISHER- MEN, SQUID AND AT LEAST ONE VERY CAMP FOLLOWER As two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch faces unpleasant foes who are out to get him...and theat's just the people on his side. The enemy mighht be even worse. ---------------------------------------- 1.23 The Last Continent %A Terry Pratchett %T The Last Continent %I Doubleday (h/cvr) [h/cvr with non-letterbox style dj.] %D 2/5/98 [on sale in uk & europe by 24/4/98] ISBN 0-385-40989-3 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.) %D 30/4/98 ISBN 0-552-14650-1 %I Isis (?six- or eight-? cassette audio/b) %D 2/99 [scheduled] ISBN 1-85695-...-. %I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr) %D 3/99 ISBN 0-06-105048-2 2 %I corgi (p/b) %D 29/4/99 [on sale 3/3/99 in israel, the netherlands, switzerland] ISBN 0-552-14614-5 %I HarperPrism (mmp/b) %D 3/00 [Y2k - eeek !] [scheduled] ISBN 0-06-10....-. (n.y.k.) h/cvr blurb: This is the Discworld's last continent, a completely separate creation. It's hot. It's dry . . . very dry. There was this thing once called The Wet, which no one now believes in. Practically everything that's not poisonous is venemous. But it's the best bloody place in the world, all right? And it'll die in a few days, except . . . Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Champion sheep shearer, horse rider, road warrior, beer drinker, bush ranger and someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's _sober?_ A man in a hat, whose Luggage follows him around on little legs, who's about to change history by preventing a swagman stealing a jumbuck by a billabong? Yes . . . all this place has between itself and wind-blown doom is Rincewind, the inept wizard who can't even _spell_ wizard. He's the only hero left. Still . . . no worries, eh? Terry Pratchett would like it to be known that _The Last Continent_ is not a book about Australia. It's just vaguely australian. p/b blurb: IT'S THE DISCWORLD'S LAST CONTINENT AND IT'S GOING TO DIE IN A FEW DAYS, EXCEPT... Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Sheep shearer, beer drinker, bush ranger, and someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's sober. A man in a hat whose luggage follows him on little legs. Yes, it's Rincewind, the inept wizard who can't even spell wizard. He's the only hero left. Still...no worries, eh? ---------------------------------------- 1.24 The Death Trilogy %A Terry Pratchett %T The Death Trilogy %I Gollancz (h/cvr) [non-letterbox style dj.] [n.b. as with The Witches Trilogy, 1.17, the pages of this h/cvr are not properly sewn in signatures, and then sewn to a backing strip of cloth that is then bound between the boards of the cover: they are merely trimmed and glued to a flexible bound-in backing strip.] %D 22/10/98 [on sale by 7/10/98] ISBN 0-575-06584-2 Omnibus collecting Mort, Reaper Man and Soul Music. Introducing the Discworld's most popular character - the fellow with the white horse and the ultimate weight-loss programme . . . DEATH Here are three novels featuring Terry Pratchett's most celebrated denizen of the Discworld, together with the usual motley cast, in- cluding Death's granddaughter Susan, Binky and the Death of Rats. MORT Death, having delegated most of his duties to his new apprentice, the uncompromising, gangling teenager Mort, is showing disturbing- ly human characteristics: drinking, dice-playing and becoming cur- ious about the nature of Fun . . . REAPER MAN Death is missing, presumed . . . er . . . gone. Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn. SOUL MUSIC It's hard to grow up normally when grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe - especially when you have to take over the fam- ily business and everyone keeps mistaking you for the Tooth Fairy. But Susan must face the new music that has entered the Discworld: it's lawless, it changes people . . . it's called Music With Rocks In. And it won't fade away . . . ---------------------------------------- 1.25 Carpe Jugulum %A Terry Pratchett %T Carpe Jugulum %I Doubleday (h/cvr) %D 5/11/98 [on sale in holland, belgium, scandawegia & merkia a week earlier] ISBN 0-385-40992-3 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.) %D 5/11/98 ISBN 0-552-14653-6 %I corgi (p/b) %D 11/99 [scheduled] ISBN 0-552-.....-. (n.y.k.) %I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr) %D 9/99 [scheduled] ISBN 0-06-10....-. (n.y.k.) %I HarperPrism (mmp/b) %D c.9/00 [y2k - eeek !][guesstimated] ISBN 0-06-10....-. (n.y.k.) h/cvr blurb: Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. He thought he'd come to the mountain kingdom of Lancre for a simple little religious ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches, and he's not sure there _is_ a right side. There're the witches - young Agnes, who is _really_ in two minds about everything, Magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies, Nanny Ogg, who is far too knowing... and Granny Weatherwax, who is big trouble. And the vampires are _intelligent_ - not easily got rid of with a garlic enema or bu going to the window, grasping the curtains and saying, "I don't know about you, but isn't it a bit stuffy in here?" They've got style and fancy waistcoats. They're out of the casket and want a bite of the future. Mightily Oats knows he has a prayer, but wishes he had an axe. ---------------------------------------- 1.26 The Colour of Magic: The Light Fantastic: The First Discworld Novels %A Terry Pratchett %T The Colour of Magic: The Light Fantastic: The First Discworld Novels %I Colin Smythe (h/cvr) [h/cvr with letterbox-style dj] %D 8/5/99 ISBN 0-86140-421-1 This is how the Discworld began... In _The Colour of Magic_ the failed wizard Rincewind burst upon the world and hasn't stopped running since. This was the book that started the phenomenally successful series. Here is the sapient pearwood luggage, a mobile trunk which launders any clothes put it in [sic] and incidentally homicidally defends its owner. Here is Twoflower, an innocent tourist in a world of nightmares and fairy tales gone wrong. Here is Cohen the Barbarian, the world's oldest and greatest hero. Here is Death, not such a bad sort when you get to know him... They have adventures. It'd take too long to explain. Just read it! [source: colin smythe 4/99][the dj blurb error noted above will be corrected during the life of the first edition of the omnibus - source: colin smythe 4/5/99][which corrected dj + volume will technically constitute the second state of the first edition. ppint.] ---------------------------------------- 1.27 City Watch Trilogy (Omnibus of 1.8, 1.15 & 1.20, i suspect) %A Terry Pratchett %T [? The City Watch Trilogy ?] %I Gollancz (h/cvr) [prob'ly non-letterbox style dj.] %D 10/99 [scheduled] ISBN 0-575-.....-. [n.b. - as with The Witches Trilogy, 1.17, the pages of this h/cvr are unlikely to be properly sewn in signatures, and then sewn to a backing strip of cloth that is then bound between the boards of the cover: they are most likely trimmed and glued to a flexible bound-in backing strip.] ---------------------------------------- 1.28 The Fifth Elephant %A Terry Pratchett %T The Fifth Elephant %I Doubleday (h/cvr) %D 11/99 [scheduled] ISBN 0-385-.....-. (n.y.k.) %I corgi (p/b) %D 11/00 [estimated][yr2k - eek !] ISBN 0-552-.....-. (n.y.k.) %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.) %D 11/99 [estimated] ISBN 0-552-.....-. (n.y.k.) %I HarperPrism (merkin h/cvr) %D 3/00 [y2k - eeek !] [scheduled] ISBN 0-06-10....-. (n.y.k.) %I HarperPrism (mmp/b) %D c.3/01 [guesstimated] ISBN 0-06-10....-. (n.y.k.) ---------------------------------------- 1.29 [none yet announced on schedules] %A Terry Pratchett %T [n.y.k.] %I Doubleday (h/cvr) %D 5 or 11/00 [estimated][yr2k - eek !] ISBN 0-385-.....-. (n.y.k.) %I corgi (p/b) %D 5 or 11/01 [estimated] ISBN 0-552-.....-. (n.y.k.) %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.) %D 5 or 11/00 [estimated][yr2k - eek !] ISBN 0-552-.....-. (n.y.k.) terry has, more than once, said he feels he may slow down, or take a holiday from the discworld - and equally often discovered that there was another discworld story that in- sisted on being told, or another story that proved to be as well-suited to being set therein; and, that he has no intention of writing "the last discworld novel", other than in the sense that he himself is mortal and that he will not permit his creation to be franchised or otherwise given the artificial semblence of life thereafter, by any other hand. i, for one, will eagerly pounce upon any novel i find with his byline, whatever the world in which it is set, having greatly enjoyed all that he's had published, and not just the nowadays best-selling discworld novels: see below, for quite how much more than two dozen such, are available. [ppint.] ---------------------------------------- 2. Pre-Discworld These books are Terry's earlier efforts, and came before the success of "The Colour of Magic"; though The Carpet People was re-written later. ---------------------------------------- 2.1 The Carpet People (1st Edition) %A Terry Pratchett %T The Carpet People %I Colin Smythe (h/cvr) %D 11/71 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-900675-49-7 Price : ukL 1.90 [1.90 GBP] Hardback 17cm x 22cm, 195 pages 33 B&W illustrations by _the author_; a few copies hand-coloured by him. Cover shows various creatures licking a large white cube. h/cvr blurb: The is magic in every carpet. Cities and villages exist right under your feet and the people who live in them are so small that each tuft of wool stretches high above them like giant trees. A grain of sugar which has somehow found its way into the world of the carpet people, becomes a favourite mountain for the carpet animals where they go as often as possible. Dust plants make up a wonderful vegetation, and the world of the carpet people is as real to them as the earth is to us. But there are also creatures who live in the underlay; they appear to be allies of that terrible and powerful Fray who lives above the carpet. Whenever he passes above, he leaves destruction behind him in the world of the carpet people, and the creatures of the underlay try to take advantage of them. This is the story of Snibril and Glurk, the leaders of the carpet people and how they finally defeat the servants of Fray. It is full of magic battles and the day to day struggle of the brave and ingenious carpet people. Children of all ages, from 5 to 50 will enjoy this book, and the world of the Carpet People in the reader's own home will add a new dimension to his imagination. --------------------------------------- 2.2 The Carpet People (revised edition) %A Terry Pratchett %T The Carpet People %I Doubleday (h/cvr) %D 1992 ISBN 0-385-40304-6 %I corgi (p/b) %D 4/93 ISBN 0-552-52752-1 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b abr.) %D 4/9/97 ISBN 0-552-54552-X h/cvr blurb: In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet... That's the old story everyone knows and loves (even if they don't really _believe_ it). For now the Carpet is home for many different tribes and peoples - from the empire-building Dumii, to the nomadic Munrungs, the proud Deftmenes, and the terrible creatures from the Unswept Regions. And there's a new story in the making. The story of the time when Fray begins to move, sweeping a trail of destruction across the Carpet. The story of the power-hungry mouls, saddling up their snargs and riding to the attack. The story of Glurk and Snibril, Munrung brothers, who set out on an adventure to end all adventures when their village is flattened. The story that will come to a terrible end - if someone doesn't do something about it. If _everyone_ doesn't do something about it... p/b blurb: as for h/cvr, with "But now.. ..to many..." for "For now.. ..for many..." at start 2nd para; and "..peoples and now there's a new story in the making. The story of Fray, sweeping a trail of destruction across the Carpet. The story of power-hungry mouls - and of two Munrung brothers, who set out on an adventure to end all adventures when their village is flattened. It's a story that will come to a terrible end - if someone doesn't do something about it. If _everyone_ doesn't do something about it..." ---------------------------------------- 2.3 The Dark Side of the Sun %A Terry Pratchett %T The Dark Side of the Sun %I Colin Smythe (h/cvr) %D 1/76 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-901072-20-6 this h/cvr edition's dust-jacket art is by Terry, 1973, as is the St.Martins; %I St. Martin's (merkin h/cvr) [a modified run-on of the Colin Smythe edn.] %D 1976 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-........-. %I New English Library (p/b) cover art by Tim White. %D 3/78 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-450-03298-1 %I Signet (mmp/b) %D (not yet known) [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-451-.....-. %I Corgi (p/b) cover art by Josh Kirby. %D 4/88 ISBN 0-552-13326-4 %I Doubleday (h/cvr) dust-jacket art from the Corgi p/b edition. %D 1994 ISBN 0-385-40476-X h/cvr blurb: _Probability Math:_ the science of foretelling the future. For Dom Sabalos, heir to an immensely rich family, its forecasts were curiously contradictory: he would be assassinated, and _after_ that, find the fabulous, almost mythical, world of the Jokers, who were only known by a few incredible artifacts scattered throughout the Galaxy. Any good P-Mathematician could find out this information. Some- body certainly wanted to prove P-Math wrong as far as Dom was concerned, and make sure that once he was dead, he stayed dead. A robot assassin, with built-in `luck', had been put on his tail, but what was it that protected Dom every time the assassin struck? To be sure, he had an excellent robot servant, Isaac; (class 5 with Man-Friday subcircuitry). a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as a god-father, a determined and protective grandmother (who looked as if she had been born aged eighty), a security chief who even ran checks on himself, and a home world, where a missing hand was only a minor mishap and even death was not always fatal - but what protected Dom on his search for the world which he knew lay on the dark side of the sun:? p/b blurb: Dom Salabos had a lot of advantages. As heir to a huge fortune, he had an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuity), 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? ---------------------------------------- 2.4 Strata %A Terry Pratchett %T Strata %I Colin Smythe (h/cvr) %D 6/81 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-901072-91-5 this h/cvr edition's dust-jacket art is by Tim White, as is the St.Martin's; %I St. Martin's (merkin h/cvr) [a modified run-on of the Colin Smythe edn.] %D c.1981 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-........-. %I New English Library (p/b) new cover art by Tim White. %D 5/82 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-450-04977-9 %I Signet (mmp/b) %D 3/83 [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-451-12147-3 %I Roc (mmp/b) LE5111 cover art by Darrell K. Sweet. %D [?][3rd printing of the mmp/b] [this edition now out of print] ISBN 0-451-45111-2 %I Corgi (p/b) cover art by Josh Kirby. %D 1988 [re-set 1990] ISBN 0-552-13325-6 %I Doubleday (h/cvr) dust-jacket art from the Corgi p/b edition. %D 1994 ISBN 0-385-40475-1 %I Roc (mmp/b) %D 1/99 ISBN 0-451-.....-. h/cvr blurb: A flat earth? Impossible. Kin Arad is the 210-year-old super- visor in charge of resurfacing the newly named planet, Kingdom. When she finds Jago Jalo, a man who has a cloak of invisibility and should have died a thousand years ago, in her office, she de- cides he must have an unusual tale. He has. He knows where such a world is. It is like the medieval earth . . . almost. Leiv Eriks- son is setting off for the New World, but he will never find it. Instead he sails to the edge of the world and its eternal water- fall. It is obvious that this `earth' has been built by the Great Spindle Kings, makers of universes, inventors of the strata mach- ine and the ultimate in claustrophobes, anmd Jalo lures the human Kin, the kung Marco Farfarer and the fifty-six-syllable-named shand better known as Silver, to undertake a voyage of discovery with him: the rewards must be beyond their dreams . . . or night- mares. p/b blurb: The excavation showed that the fossilized plesiosaur had been holding a placard which read, "End Nuclear Testing Now". That was nothing unusual. But then came a discovery of something which *did* intrigue Kin Arad. A flat earth was something new ... ---------------------------------------- 3. The Nomes Series (The Bromeliad) Overtly for children, this series has proved popular for both adults and children and may be found in either the childrens', or the sf & fantasy sections of your bookstore - or in both... Diggers has been made into a cartoon series by Cosgrove-Hall (- see 7.2 for the [o/p] picture book based on this; and see the AFP-FAQ for more information). uk editions have cover art by Josh Kirby. ---------------------------------------- 3.1 Truckers %A Terry Pratchett %T Truckers %I Doubleday (h/cvr) %D 9/89 ISBN 0-385-26961-7 %I Corgi (p/b) %D 9/90 ISBN 0-552-52595-2 %I Delacorte (merkin h/cvr) %D (not yet known) ISBN (not yet known) %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 1993 ISBN 0-552-14005-8 h/cvr blurb: `Outside! What's it like?' Masklin looked blank. `Well,' he said, `it's sort of big -' `Yes?' `And, er, there's a lot of it -' `Yes? Yes?' `With, you know, things in it -' ...yes, _lots_ of things, and all of them a mystery to the thou- sands of tiny nomes living under the floorboards of a large dep- artment store, most of whom have never even set eyes upon the outside world. Things like Day and Night and Sun and Rain don't really exist, say all intelligent nomes. They're just daft old legends. But soon a devestating piece of news is to shatter the nomes' ex- istence: the Store - their world - is to be demolished... So it's up to Masklin, the last nome to come into the Store, to mastermind the unbelievable escape plan that will take all the nomes into the dangers of the great Outside. It means they have to think. And they have to think BIG. And they start to learn who they are and how they came to be there, and where their fantastic journey must one day take them. p/b Blurb: To the thousands of tiny nomes who live under the floorboards of a large department store, there is no Outside. Things like Day and Night, Sun and Rain are just daft old legends. Then a devastating piece of news shatters their existence: the Store - their whole world - is to be demolished. And it's up to Masklin, one of the last nomes to come into the Store, to mastermind an unbelievable escape plan that will take all the nomes into the dangers of the great Outside ... ---------------------------------------- 3.2 Diggers %A Terry Pratchett %T Diggers %I Doubleday (h/cvr) %D 4/90 ISBN 0-385-26980-3 %I Corgi (p/b) %D 4/91 ISBN 0-552-52586-3 %I Delacorte (merkin h/cvr) %D (not yet known) ISBN (not yet known) %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 1993 ISBN 0-552-14006-6 h/cvr blurb: `In the beginning...Arnold Bros (est. 1905) created the Store.' When their home, a large department store, was demolished, thou- sands of tiny nomes made a daring and dramatic escape on a stolen lorry - and only just in the nick of time. The abandoned quarry they found was perfect for their needs. At last they are safe. Or are they? Soon strange things start to happen. Like the tops of puddles growing hard and cold, and the water coming down from the sky in frozen bits. Worse is to come though. The quarry is to be re-opened - their new home is under threat. A newspaper cutting sends three brave nomes off on a desperate mission which, if it succeeds, could lead them all to their ult- imate home... Meanwhile, back at the quarry, the remaining nomes prepare to defend their home against the intruders. But how long will they be able to keep the humans at bay - even _with_ the help of the monster Jekub? p/b blurb: `And Grimma said, We have two choices. We can run, or we hide. And they said, Which shall we do? She said, We shall Fight.' A Bright New Dawn is just around the corner for thousands of tiny nomes when they move into the ruined buildings of an abandoned quarry. Or is it? Soon strange things start to happen. Like the tops of puddles growing hard and cold, and the water coming down from the sky in frozen bits. Then humans appear and they _really_ mess everything up. The quarry is to be re-opened and the nomes must fight to defend their new home. But how long will they be able to keep the humans at bay - even _with_ the help of the monster Jekub? ---------------------------------------- 3.3 Wings %A Terry Pratchett %T Wings %I Doubleday (h/cvr) %D 9/90 ISBN 0-385-40018-7 %I Corgi (p/b) %D 9/91 ISBN 0-552-52649-5 %I Delacorte (merkin h/cvr) %D (n.y.k.) ISBN (n.y.k.) %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 1993 ISBN 0-552-14007-4 h/cvr blurb: `It loomed over them, so big that you had to keep on stepping back and back to see how big it was. It wasn't a _thing_, it was a bit of shaped sky...' Somewhere in a place so far up there is no down, a ship is waiting to take the nomes home - back to wherever they came from. With their home in a quarry under threat, one nome - Masklin - knows that they've got to find a way of contacting this ship. It means going to Florida (wherever that is), then getting to the launch of a communications satellite (whatever _that_ is). A ridiculous plan. Impossible. But Masklin doesn't know this so he tries to do it anyway. And the first step is to try and hitch a ride on a new kind of truck, a truck with wings - Concorde ... He doesn't want to cause any trouble. He only wants to steal one of those space shuttle things. But when you're only four inches high in a world full of humans, things have a nasty habit of getting rather complicated... p/b blurb: Somewhere in a place so far up there is no down, a ship is waiting to take the nomes home - back to wherever they came from. And one nome, Masklin, knows that they've got to try and contact this ship. It means going to Florida (wherever that is), then getting to the launch of a communications satellite (whatever that is). A ridiculous plan. Impossible. But Masklin doesn't know this so he tries to do it anyway. And the first step is to try and hitch a ride on a new kind of truck, a truck with wings - Concorde ... ---------------------------------------- 3.4 The Bromeliad (omnibus of 3.1, .2 & .3) %A Terry Pratchett %T The Bromeliad %I Doubleday (h/cvr) %D 5/11/98 ISBN 0-385-41044-1 h/cvr blurb: Truckers To the thousands of tiny nomes living under the floorboards of a large department store, there is no Outside. No Day or Night, no Sun or Rain. They're just daft old legends. Until the devest- ating news that the Store is to be demolished. Now the nomes have to think. And they have to think BIG... Diggers A Bright New Dawn is just around the corner for the nomes when they move into an abandoned quarry. Or is it? For when humans turn up, they begin to mess everything up again. Now the nomes have two choices: to run, or to hide. Or, maybe, they could... _fight_. But for how long can they keep the humans at bay - even with the help of the monster Jekub? Wings It's a ridiculous plan. Impossible. To hitch a ride on a truck with wings - Concorde. And then steal one of those space shuttle things. But home is home, and the nomes want to go there. They don't _mean_ to cause any trouble. Really... ---------------------------------------- 4. Young Adult Books Aimed at the round-about-teenage market, "Young Adult books have fewer teddy bears and more inner city grit" (so the man himself says). ---------------------------------------- 4.1 Only You Can Save Mankind %A Terry Pratchett %T Only You Can Save Mankind %I Doubleday (h/cvr) %D 9/92 ISBN 0-385-40308-9 %I Corgi (p/b) %D 9/93 ISBN 0-552-13926-2 %I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.) %D 5/95 ISBN 0-552-14008-2 h/cvr blurb: The mighty alien fleet from the very latest computer game thunders across the computer screen... Hands poised on the joystick, Johnny prepares to blow them into the usual million pieces... And they send him a message: _WE SURRENDER._ They're not supposed to do that! Where does it say in the manual that they're supposed to do that? But they've done it. This time they don't want to die. They just want to go home. Johnny is the only human who knows. So he has to learn how to wage all-out Peace, and they don't make joysticks with a `Don't Fire' button... It's hard, trying to Save Mankind from the Galactic Hordes. It's even harder trying to save the Galactic Hordes from Mankind. But it's only a game, isn't it. _ISN'T IT?_ p/b blurb: As the mighty alien fleet from the very latest computer game thunders across the computer screen, Johnny prepares to blow them into the usual million pieces. And they send him a message: _We Surrender._ They're not supposed to do that! They're supposed to die. And computer joysticks don't have `Don't Fire' buttons... It's hard enough, trying to save Mankind from the Galactic Hordes. It's even harder trying to save the Galactic Hordes from Mankind. But it's only a game, isn't it. _Isn't It?_ -------