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Fast Facts
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A man named Marco Soto beat out all other bidders at the charity auction at
Aggiecon 31 in Texas last year, winning the chance to be written in as a character
in Thief of Time. His character got to kill three bad guys with an exploding
begging-bowl.
- Pratchett attended
High Wycombe Technical High School, where his story ''The Hades Business''
appeared in the school magazine when he was 13, and commercially in Science
Fantasy just two years later.
- Stephen Briggs was
the first person to adapt a Discworld novel for the stage. He also came up with the
idea of mapping Discworld geography and gathered all the Ankh Morpork references
from the books and produced a rough map. Since then, maps of Discworld as a whole,
Lancre and Death Domain have been created. Terry and Stephen contribute a thin
booklet to each map providing a little insight into the subject matter.
- There exists a
Discworld Companion, with references to everyone and everywhere in the
Discworld to date.
- The ultimate Discworld
fan convention is in the works. If you really want to prove yourself to be a die-hard
fan, travel to Hinckley, Leicestershire on the 16th to the 19th, August 2002.
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Bio
Terry Pratchett
published his first story when he was thirteen and had his first commercial sale four
years later. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People,
appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. Before turning to literary writing
full-time, he worked for many years as a journalist and press officer. His first book in
the Discworld series, The
Color of Magic*, appeared in 1983. Since that time he has written an additional
twenty-five Discworld novels. A non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990
collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a long-time best-seller as well. He has also
written two science fiction novels and seven for younger readers.
Regarded as one of the most significant contemporary English-language satirists,
Pratchett received the British Fantasy Award for best novel (Pyramids), in 1989,
was named an Officer of the British Empire "for services to literature" in the
Queen's Birthday Honours of 1998, and received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from
the University of Warwick in 1999. His acclaimed novels have sold more than 21 million
copies worldwide and have been translated into 27 languages. Terry Pratchett lives in
England with his family, and spends most days at his computer, writing.
*That's Colour of Magic for all you Brits.
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