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Craig Cabell. Terry Pratchett
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Introduction
A Serious Note on the Text
The Road to Dreams
Early On
What Happened Next
And as if by Magic…
A Fantasy World
The Colour of Magic
Tripping the Light Fandango
Mort, Faust and Death
OLIVER TWIST AND MORT
The Carpet People (again)
A Vastly Populated World
Grooving with a Pict
Challenging the Cliché
The Dreams and Nightmares of Childhood
If Music be the Food of Love
The Long Dark Tea Party of the Soul
Writing for Children
Nation
Courtly Orangutans
A Character Called Death
Alzheimer’s Disease
The Dark Red Wings of Misery
A Note About Cats
Pratchett on Screen
TRUCKERS (TV)
WYRD SISTERS (TV)
SOUL MUSIC (TV)
JOHNNY AND THE BOMB (TV)
JOHNNY AND THE DEAD (TV)
HOGFATHER (TV)
THE COLOUR OF MAGIC (TV)
GOING POSTAL (TV)
Pratchett at the Theatre
Terry Pratchett: Complete UK Bibliography and Collector’s Guide
SHORT STORIES FOR THE BUCKS FREE PRESS
EARLY WORKS – SHORT STORIES
EARLY WORKS – NOVELS
THE DISCWORLD SERIES
Discworld 1 – The Colour of Magic
Discworld 2 – The Light Fantastic
Discworld 3 – Equal Rites
Discworld 4 – Mort
Discworld 5 – Sourcery
Discworld 6 – Wyrd Sisters
Discworld 7 – Pyramids
Discworld 8 – Guards! Guards!
Discworld 9 – Eric
Discworld 10 – Moving Pictures
Discworld 11 – Reaper Man
Discworld 12 – Witches Abroad
Discworld 13 – Small Gods
Discworld 14 – Lords and Ladies
Discworld 15 – Men at Arms
Discworld 16 – Soul Music
Discworld 17 – Interesting Times
Discworld 18 – Maskerade
Discworld 19 – Feet of Clay
Discworld 20 – Hogfather
Discworld 21 – Jingo
Discworld 22 – The Last Continent
Discworld 23 – Carpe Jugulum
Discworld 24 – The Fifth Elephant
Discworld 25 – The Truth
Discworld 26 – Thief of Time
Discworld 27 – The Last Hero
Discworld 28 – The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
Discworld 29 – Night Watch
Discworld 30 – The Wee Free Men
Discworld 31 – Monstrous Regiment
Discworld 32 – A Hat Full of Sky
Discworld 33 – Going Postal
Discworld 34 – Thud!
Discworld 35 – Wintersmith
Discworld 36 – Making Money
Discworld 37 – Unseen Academicals
Discworld 38 – I Shall Wear Midnight
Discworld 39 – Snuff
THE JOHNNY MAXWELL SERIES
NATION
MISCELLANEOUS
SCREENPLAYS
GRAPHIC NOVELS
SPECIAL INTRODUCTIONS
The Unseen Library Bibliography
And Finally
End Note
Further Reading
About the Author
Books by Craig Cabell
CHAP BOOKS
SPECIAL INTRODUCTIONS
Copyright
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This book is dedicated to the memory of Nigel Williams, a dear friend and antiquarian book dealer who acquired many a Pratchett novel for me
‘A ritual, more compelling than ever man devised, is fighting anchored darkness. A ritual of the blood; of the jumping blood. These… owe nothing to his forbears, but to those feckless hosts, a trillion deep, of the globe’s childhood.’
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The young Pratchett continued to do well at school. He achieved five O levels and started A levels in art, history and English, but he heard that there was a vacancy at the Bucks Free Press (a local newspaper). After consulting his parents, he went for the job and, remarkably, he got it, leaving school in 1965. When he got to the newspaper, he found that his education was far from over. He had to take a two-year National Council for the Training of Journalists proficiency course. He would come top in the country. If that wasn’t impressive enough, he also passed an A level in English while on day release (his only A level pass).
Pratchett fell easily into journalism. He has described himself as a ‘born journalist’, and that the pleasure of hitting the keys as a touch typist is almost like a therapy to him. One cannot but agree, because in November 1965 Pratchett found his short story ‘The Night Dweller’ in a paperback anthology entitled New Worlds SF, edited by Michael Moorcock.* ‘The Night Dweller’ is not considered a milestone in Pratchett’s back catalogue. The few copies that come onto the market through antiquarian book dealers are often underplayed today and Pratchett fans are not exactly overcome with enthusiasm for the story either. What is interesting is the fact that Pratchett was still submitting stories for publication and, shortly after leaving school, he had had his second real success as a short-story writer.
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