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Portals Navigate here to browse through the articles Bibliography: Books and other material written by Terry Pratchett Characters: Pratchett characters Places: Agatea to Zambingo, even a Place Where The Sun Does Not Shine Discworld Stuff: Anything belonging to the Discworld or Terry Pratchett's writings in general Annotations: Comments by readers relating to Pratchett books. About Terry Pratchett Fandom: About or produced by people who read Terry Pratchett's books Podcasts: Audio shows which discuss the books Categories: A directory of major categories for articles on this wiki Reading suggestions: There's a life beyond Pratchett, and after triple-reading every book and map this is where you start that life A meeting place: The Mended Drum To discuss non-content matters (what do we do with content disputes, vandalism, etc, what do we want to do with this wiki, and so on), use this location: Discworld & Pratchett Wiki:Mended Drum See the talk page for more ideas on what should be in this wiki, as well as discussions on languages etc. Are you new to wikis and want to try out how it works? On the Sandbox you can edit as much as you like and get used to working with a wiki. Recent news about Terry Friday, May 10th, 2024 The Terry Pratchett estate reveals that an additional “lost” story written by Terry has been found: “Arnold, the Bominable Snowman”. This story will appear in the paperback edition of A Stroke of the Pen, due out in September, but will also be published free online so those who bought the hardcover or trade paperback edition won’t miss out. Penguin Books are also holding a competition for fans to get their illustration of Arnold published in the book; entries closed on 31 May. (TerryPratchett.com; terrypratchettbooks.com) Friday, May 3rd, 2024 The Terry Pratchett estate announces Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, a behind the scenes look at Paul Kidby’s long creative partnership with Terry Pratchett as the official Discworld illustrator. It will be published on 7 November 2024 by Transworld. (TerryPratchett.com) 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. (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 resources for celebrating the day. (@PratchettOnline on Twitter; terrypratchett.com) Thursday, February 29th, 2024 The Terry Pratchett estate and UK-based games company 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 a Discworld fan survey as part of their early development of the game. (terrypratchett.com; Dicebreaker) Wednesday, February 28th, 2024 The Terry Pratchett Estate reveal a “Forty Years of Discworld” logo for the “Year of Discworld” celebration, previously announced on the anniversary itself (November 24th, 2023). No other details yet. (terrypratchett.com) Thursday, December 14th, 2023 After Amazon released a Good Omens song list containing a clue, Good Omens HQ officially announce that a third and final season of Good Omens has been confirmed. (Variety) Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 Marking the fortieth anniversary of The Colour of Magic 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 a similar event with Rhianna Pratchett and Gabrielle Kent for the launch of Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch at the start of the month). Video of the talk is available from the Living Knowledge Network. (terrypratchett.com) Significant Pratchett Events Tuesday, April 28th, 2020 Narrativia announces an exclusive deal with Motive Pictures and Endeavour Content to produce "definitive" and "absolutely faithful" Discworld adaptations for the screen. No specific productions are announced. The full text of the announcement is available on the Narrativia web site. Saturday, September 16th, 2017 Opening of the Terry Pratchett HisWorld Exhibition at the Salisbury Museum, Wiltshire. HisWorld Website Salisbury Museum Website Wednesday, August 30th, 2017 In accordance with his final wishes Sir Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels are destroyed using a steamroller. News Article Saturday, February 11th, 2017 The BBC broadcasts the biographical documentary Terry Pratchett: Back in Black. (Non-UK viewers may be able to watch it [here]) Thursday, August 27th, 2015 Publication of the final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown. Thursday, March 12th, 2015 Sir Terry Pratchett died at home in Wiltshire following a long battle with Alzheimer's. BBC report, 3:26pm GMT

Featured Article Please, help to maintain the excellent standard of the articles in this wiki. Regularly a key article will be chosen which should be the focus of contributors. Alphabetical list of characters in the works of Terry Pratchett When including characters, please also add them to the Pratchett characters category. This popular page is fourth in views after the Main Page but it has not been updated regularly. Discuss Featured articles | Also in need of editing | Empty pages Latest and Upcoming Publications and Events by or about Terry Pratchett 7 November 2024 Publication of Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld by Penguin (Transworld). 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 Dodger. 29 February 2024 Publication of new paperback edition of The Last Hero from Gollancz, matching the 50 Years of Terry Penguin editions. 7 December 2023 Publication of new paperback editions of The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight and The Shepherd's Crown, the final books released as part of 50 Years of Terry. 9 November 2023 Publication of Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch by Rhianna Pratchett and Gabrielle Kent, illustrated by Paul Kidby, celebrating the 20th anniversary of Tiffany Aching. 5 October 2023 Publication of A Stroke of the Pen, a collection of previously uncollected “lost” early stories written by Pratchett for newspapers under pseudonyms. 28 July 2023 Season two of Good Omens premieres on Amazon Prime Video. 15 June 2023 Publication of new audiobook editions of The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight and The Shepherd's Crown as part of 50 Years of Terry. 25 May 2023 Publication of new audiobook and paperback editions of Guards! Guards!, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, Jingo, The Fifth Elephant, Night Watch, Thud! and Snuff as part of 50 Years of Terry. 18 May 2023 Publication of new audiobook and paperback edition of Moving Pictures as part of 50 Years of Terry. Did you know that... ...the motto carved above the doors of Unseen University means Now you see it, now you don't? ...there are only six references to Harry Potter on this entire Wiki? ...Sto Lat is a Polish song, the expression meaning "may you live a hundred years"? ...someone has actually made a Discworld cake? ...the article Multiple exclamation marks has attracted more than 50,000 views?!!! And that was on the old Wiki: even allowing for the shiny new-ness of this new home, "M.E.M." has attracted over 36,000 viewings while many popular characters and books haven't reached 10,000. What is it about this page? A picture says more than a thousand words... If you have any artwork to contribute, go to the Upload page. As with all content, make sure you are allowed to post the image here. If you're not the copyright holder, check the license and whether it's compatible with the license used on this site. The upload link can also be found in the Toolbox in the left sidebar.

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