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A blink of the screen : collected shorter fiction / Terry Pratchett ; [with a foreword by A. S. Byatt].

Pratchett, Terry. (Author). Kirby, Josh. (Added Author). Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936- (Added Author).

Summary:

A collection of short fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from schooldays to Discworld and the present day. In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short-form fiction collected into one volume. Here are characters both familiar and yet to be discovered; abandoned worlds and others still expanding; adventure, chickens, death, disco and some quite disturbing ideas about Christmas, all shot through with Terry's inimitable brand of humour.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780385618984 (hc.)
  • ISBN: 0385618980 (hc.)
  • ISBN: 9780552167734 (pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: 318 p., [24] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: London : Doubleday ; 2012.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Foreword / A. S. Byatt -- Non-Discworld shorter writings -- The Hades business -- Solution -- The picture -- The prince and the partridge -- Rincemangle, the gnome of Even Moor -- Kindly breathe in short, thick pants -- The Glastonbury tales -- There's no fool like an old fool found in an English queue -- Coo, they've given me the bird -- And mind the monoliths -- The high meggas -- Twenty pence, with envilope and seasonal greeting -- Incubust -- Final reward -- Turntables of the night -- #ifdefDEBUG + 'world/enough' + 'time' -- Hollywood chickens -- The secret book of the dead -- Once and future -- FTB -- Sir Joshua Easement: a biographical note -- Discworld shorter writings -- Troll bridge -- Theatre of cruelty -- The sea and little fishes -- The Ankh-Morpork national anthem -- Medical notes -- Thud: a historical perspective -- A few words from Lord Havelock Vetinari -- Death and what comes next -- A collegiate casting-out of devilish devices -- Minutes of the Meeting for form the proposed Ankh-Morpork Federation of Scouts -- The Ankh-Morpork Football Association Hall of Fame playing cards -- Appendix -- Deleted extract from 'The sea and little fishes' -- List of illustrations.
Subject: Fantasy fiction, English.
Genre: Short stories.
Fantasy fiction.
Short stories.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Rossland Public Library.

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