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== About Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki == | == About Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki == | ||
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===Recent news about Terry=== | ===Recent news about Terry=== | ||
; | ;Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024: HarperCollins announces that new Harper Perennial paperback editions of the Discworld books are being published in the US, beginning with the “Wizards collection”. The collections will use the same Leo Nickolls covers as the UK Penguin editions, and be released in the same “collections”. Each collection will be released separately, with the Tiffany Aching books being last in Fall 2025. ([https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/discworld harpercollins.com]) | ||
; | ;Monday, April 22nd, 2024: The Terry Pratchett estate announces a theme for "[[Terry Pratchett Day]]" (Pratchett's birthday, April 28th) for 2024: "Start in the Wrong Place". They promise more details to come, including [https://terrypratchett.com/terry-pratchett-day/ resources] for celebrating the day. ([https://x.com/PratchettOnline/status/1782439346575933579 @PratchettOnline on Twitter]; [https://terrypratchett.com/news/terry-pratchett-day-2024/ terrypratchett.com]) | ||
;Thursday, | ;Thursday, February 29th, 2024: The Terry Pratchett estate and UK-based games company [https://www.modiphius.net Modiphius Entertainment] announce that Modiphius has acquired the license to produce new Discworld tabletop games, beginning with a roleplaying game, ''Adventures in Ankh-Morpork'', which will be crowdfunded via Kickstarter in “late 2024”. Modiphius have launched [https://www.modiphius.net/pages/discworld-adventures-signup a Discworld fan survey] as part of their early development of the game. ([https://terrypratchett.com/discworld/discworld-ttrpg-modiphius-announced/ terrypratchett.com]; [https://www.dicebreaker.com/categories/roleplaying-game/news/discworld-rpg-new-board-games-terry-pratchett ''Dicebreaker'']) | ||
; | ;Wednesday, February 28th, 2024: The Terry Pratchett Estate reveal a “[[Forty Years of Discworld]]” logo for the “Year of Discworld” celebration, [https://terrypratchett.com/discworld/40-years-of-discworld-magic/ previously announced] on the anniversary itself (November 24th, 2023). No other details yet. ([https://terrypratchett.com/discworld/40-years-of-discworld-logo/ terrypratchett.com]) | ||
; | ;Thursday, December 14th, 2023: After [https://x.com/goodomensprime/status/1735298598894436405?s=46&t=qZWvb2BDsjbvYIoWy2hk3w Amazon released a ''Good Omens'' song list containing a clue], Good Omens HQ officially announce that a third and final season of {{GOTV}} has been confirmed. ([https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/good-omens-season-3-renewed-final-season-amazon-1235837682/ ''Variety'']) | ||
; | ;Tuesday, November 21st, 2023: Marking the fortieth anniversary of {{COM}} a little early, [[Rob Wilkins]] and [[Neil Gaiman]] celebrated the life and work of [[Terry Pratchett]] in an event at the British Library, “The Worlds of Terry Pratchett”, hosted by Kat Brown (who hosted [https://living-knowledge-network.co.uk/library/tiffany-achings-guide-to-being-a-witch a similar event] with [[Rhianna Pratchett]] and [[Gabrielle Kent]] for the launch of {{TAG}} at the start of the month). [https://living-knowledge-network.co.uk/library/the-worlds-of-terry-pratchett Video of the talk is available from the Living Knowledge Network]. ([https://terrypratchett.com/news/see-rob-wilkins-neil-gaiman-in-conversation/ terrypratchett.com]) | ||
===Significant Pratchett Events=== | ===Significant Pratchett Events=== | ||
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===Latest and Upcoming Publications by or about Terry Pratchett=== | ===Latest and Upcoming Publications and Events by or about Terry Pratchett=== | ||
; | ;28 April 2024: [[Terry Pratchett Day]] 2024, with the theme "The Wrong Place to Start". | ||
; | ;25 April 2024: Publication of a Collector’s Library hardback edition of {{DO}}. | ||
; | ;29 February 2024: Publication of new paperback edition of {{TLH}} from Gollancz, matching the [[50 Years of Terry]] Penguin editions. | ||
; | ;7 December 2023: Publication of new paperback editions of {{WFM}}, {{HFOS}}, {{W}}, {{ISWM}} and {{TSC}}, the final books released as part of [[50 Years of Terry]]. | ||
; | ;9 November 2023: Publication of {{TAG}} by [[Rhianna Pratchett]] and [[Gabrielle Kent]], illustrated by [[Paul Kidby]], celebrating the 20th anniversary of [[Tiffany Aching]]. | ||
; | ;5 October 2023: Publication of {{SP}}, a collection of previously uncollected “lost” early stories written by Pratchett for newspapers under pseudonyms. | ||
; | ;28 July 2023: Season two of {{GOTV}} premieres on Amazon Prime Video. | ||
; | ;15 June 2023: Publication of new audiobook editions of {{WFM}}, {{HFOS}}, {{W}}, {{ISWM}} and {{TSC}} as part of [[50 Years of Terry]]. | ||
; | ;25 May 2023: Publication of new audiobook and paperback editions of {{G!G!}}, {{MAA}}, {{FOC}}, {{J}}, {{TFE}}, {{NW}}, {{T!}} and {{SN}} as part of [[50 Years of Terry]]. | ||
; | ;18 May 2023: Publication of new audiobook and paperback edition of {{MP}} as part of [[50 Years of Terry]]. | ||
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