Articles and Speeches

Articles, speeches, interviews and other nonfiction written by Terry Pratchett. Most of the pieces below are collected in A Slip of the Keyboard, including from this article numbers 3-9, 11-14, 16-22, 33, 35, 37, 41, 42, 45, 46, 48, 50, 53, 60-80, as well as many of his contributions to other works, specifically the ones there numbered 1, 2, 6, 16, 20 and 29-31. (Reference numbers below come from the source list at terrypratchettbooks.org.)

Articles

#	Title	Date	Publication	Description	Collected in	External link
1	“High Tech, Why Tech?”	1993	The Electronic Author	Article in magazine, Summer 1993 Issue
4	“Magic Kingdoms / Fantasy Kingdoms”	1999-07-04	The Sunday Times; New Review	Article	A Slip of the Keyboard
5	“Neil Gaiman: Amazing Master Conjurer”	2002-02-15	Boskone 39 convention programme	Article	A Slip of the Keyboard
6	“No Worries”	1998-06	SFX	Article in magazine	A Slip of the Keyboard
7	“The Orangutans are Dying. Sorry Son, The Humans Need All Our Trees”	2000-02-20	The Mail On Sunday	Article in newspaper	A Slip of the Keyboard
8	“Paperback Writer”	2003-12-06	The Guardian	Article in newspaper	A Slip of the Keyboard
9	“Roots of Fantasy”	1989	"The Roots of Fantasy: Myth, Folklore & Archetype"	Article in programme book of World Fantasy Convention 1989	A Slip of the Keyboard
10	“Sheer Delight: Tribute to Bob Shaw”	1996-04-01	SFX	Article in magazine	Once More* *with Footnotes
11	“Thought Progress”	1989-05	20/20	Article in magazine	A Slip of the Keyboard
12	“Whose Fantasy Are You?”	1991-09-17	WH Smith Bookcase	Article in magazine	A Slip of the Keyboard
13	“A Word About Hats”	2001-07-08	Sunday Telegraph Review	Article in newspaper	A Slip of the Keyboard
14	“2001: The Vision and the Reality”	2000-12-24	The Sunday Times	Article in newspaper	A Slip of the Keyboard
15	“And Mind the Monoliths”	1978-04-03	Bath & West Evening Chronicle	Story in newspaper	A Blink of the Screen
16 44	“A Word from Terry Pratchett” aka “The Big Store”	2002-03	Theatre program for Truckers	Author’s notes	A Blink of the Screen
17	“The Choice Word”	2000	The Word (London’s Festival of Literature)	Article	A Blink of the Screen
19	“Elves Were Bastards”	1992-11	Hillcon programme book	Article in convention book	A Blink of the Screen
23	“The Unconventional Cavalier: An Assessment of Colin Kapp”	1963-09	Zenith issue 6	Article in magazine	Uncollected

24. The Picture (article from 11th May, 1965 in magazine "Technical Cygnet, Wycombe High School Technical Magazine, Issue 1"). Republished in A Blink of the Screen.

25. When Gerrards Cross Was The 'Brighton Of Bucks' (article from 29th January, 1969 in newspaper "Bucks Free Press")

26. Three Popes To Go Before We Know If Malachy Was Right (article from 29th January, 1969 in newspaper "Bucks Free Press", written under the pseudonym 'Marcus')

27. After Thirty-Six Long Years The Burmese Still Remember Him (article from 27th May, 1970 in newspaper "Bucks Free Press", written under the pseudonym 'Marcus')

28. Where Particle Sheep Safely Wave (1990) (article from 5th May, 1990 in magazine "New Scientist")

29. Joint Account (1992) (article from 1992 in magazine "WH Smith Junior Bookcase, Heatwave Edition")

30. My Best Teacher (1994) (article from 16th September, 1994 in T"ES2, Times Educational Supplement")

31. My Soundtrack For A Cathedral (1995) (article from 28th May, 1995 in newspaper "The Mail On Sunday")

32. My New Year Resolution (1996) (article from 31st December, 1996 in newspaper "The Express")

33. On Excellence in Schools (1997) (article from July 1997 in "Education: What It Means To You"; Dept of Education)

34. My Kind Of Day (article in magazine "Radio Times, Issue for 10-16th May 1997")

35. The Meaning Of My Christmas (article from December 24th, 1997 in newspaper "Western Daily Press, Bristol")

36. Lord Of The Rings (article from August 8th, 1999 in newspaper "The Sunday Times; Culture Section")

37. Wyrd Ideas (article from Autumn, 1999 in "The Author; CX; 3; Autumn Issue)

38. I Only Read The Brodies Notes (article from December, 1999 in "Later; December Issue")

39. Author Pays Tribute To Former BFP Editor 47. Arthur (article from February 16th, 2001 in newspaper "Bucks Free Press")

40. Plunder Woman (article from November 7th, 1998 in newspaper "The Express; Weekend: Arts")

41. A Word From Terry, On Being 21 (article in programme book of the 2004 Discworld Convention, August 2004)

42. Tales Of Wonder And Porn (2004) (article in programme book of Noreascon 4: The 62nd World Science Fiction Convention, September 2004)

43. It Keeps My Head Together (article from July 8th, 2001 in "The Sunday Telegraph; Review")

44. A Word From Terry Pratchett (About Truckers) (In programme book of Bob Eaton’s adaptation of Truckers. The play toured in 2002), this is the original title of no. 16 'The Big Store' and they are the same article. Republished in A Slip of the Keyboard

46. Keep it Real - Notes from a successful fantasy author (The 2007 edition of The Writers' and Artists' Yearbook contains an article by Terry (pp. 231-232) giving advice on how to write science fiction)

47. I Create Gods All The Time - Now I Think One Might Exist (article in Daily Mail, June 21st, 2008)

48. I'm disgusted...I can get Viagra on the NHS, but nothing for my Alzheimer's (article in News of the World, August 17th, 2008)

50. I'm slipping away a bit at a time... and all I can do is watch it happen (2008) (article in Daily Mail, October 7th, 2008)

53. Point me to heaven when the final chapter comes/ I'll die before the endgame (2009) (article in Mail on Sunday, Aug 2nd, 2009)

54. When the time comes I'll sit on my lawn, brandy in hand and Thomas Tallis on my iPod. And then I'll shake hands with Death (2010) (article in Daily Mail, Feb 3rd, 2010)

55. The Tale of Joshua Easement (2010) (article in The Times, Mar 16th, 2010). Republished in A Blink of the Screen.

56. Signing books was nearly the death of me (2012) (article in The Guardian, Nov 24th, 2012)

58. Doctor Who was a safe option for Saturday teatime (2013) (article in The Guardian, Nov 2nd, 2013)

59. PM broke dementia promise (2013) (article in The Sunday Times, Dec 1st, 2013)

60. Palmtop (1993) (article in Independent, July 9th, 1993)

61. Kevins (1993) (article from The Author, Winter 1993)

64. Watching 'Nation' (2009) (article in Daily Telegraph from December 16th, 2009)

65. A Star Pupil (2011) (article in Celebrating 60 Years: Holtspur School, 2011)

66. On Granny Pratchett (2004) (article in Age Concern, 2004)

67. Writer's Choice (2004) (article in Waterstone's Books Quarterly, 12, 2004)

68. The King and I (1970) (article in Western Daily Press, December 24th, 1970)

69. Honey , these bees had a heart of gold (1976) (article in West Evening Chronicle, April 24th, 1976)

70. That sounds fungi, it must be the dawn chorus (1976) (article in Bath and West Evening Chronicle, 2 October 1976)

71. The God Moment (2008) (article in Mail on Sunday, 22 June 2008)

73. Saturdays (2011) (article in Radio Times, 12 November 2011)

76. At last we have real compassion in assisted-dying guidelines (2010) (article in the Times, 26 February 2010)

77. Assisted-Dying: It's time the government gave us the right to end our lives (2011) (article in New Humanist, July/August 2011)

78. Death Knocked and We Let Him in (2011) (article in Sunday Times, 12 June 2011)

79. Week in the Death of Terry Pratchett (2011) (article in Independent, 18 June 2011)

80. Terry Pratchett's Wild Unattached Footnotes to Life (1990) (article for Charity magazine, 1 July 1990)

81. When the Children Read Fantasy (1994) (article for SF2 Concatenation, 1994)

84. Doing as you would bee done by (1975) (article in the Bath & West Evening Chronicle), republished in the collectors edition of The Shepherd's Crown.

Speeches

2. Imaginary Worlds, Real Stories (speech from October 1st, 2000 for the National Folklore Society)

3. Let There be Dragons (1993) (speech June 11th, 1993 given at the Booksellers Association Conference dinner; collected in A Slip of the Keyboard)

18. Doctor Who? (2001) (speech for honorary degree, University of Portsmouth, 2001)

20. Why Gandalf Never Married (speech given at Novacon 15, 1985)

21. Alien Christmas (Beccon 1987 After-Dinner Speech from August 1987)

45. Straight from the Heart, Via the Groin (Terry's 2004 speech at Noreascon, WorldCon)

49. Terry Pratchett : Speech to the Tory Party Conference (September 29th, 2008)

72. A Genuine Absent-minded Professor (2010) (speech for Inaugural Professorial Lecture in Trinity College, Dublin, 4 November 2010)

62. Carnegie Medal Award Speech (2001) (speech from July 12th, 2002)

63. Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Speech (2009) (speech for book 'Nation', from October 2nd, 2009)

75. Shaking Hands with Death (2010) (the Richard Dimbleby lecture, 1 February 2010. Also released as a stand alone book in 2015 with a new introduction by Rob Wilkins)

Published letters

#	Title	Date	Publication	Description	Collected in	External link
22	“On Science Fiction in Schools”	1963-09-21	Vector (Journal of the BSFA) 21	Letter to the editor	A Blink of the Screen
51	"Speak its name to kill dementia”	2008-10-07	The Times'’	Letter to the editor	A Blink of the Screen	thetimes.co.uk
52	"Palliative Care: Thoughts following the death of Sir Edward Downes and his wife”	2009-07-16	The Times	Letter to the editor	A Blink of the Screen	thetimes.co.uk
74	“Taxworld”	2009-05-23	"The Times”	Letter to the editor	A Blink of the Screen

Interviews

#	Title	Date	Publication	Description	External link
82	“The Secrets of my Success: Terry Pratchett”	2010-05-22	The Daily Mail	Interview	dailymail.co.uk
83	“My Dinner With Terry”	1997	SFX Presents The Authorised Terry Pratchett's Discworld Magazine'’	Interview

External Links

• The Picture
• Why Gandalf Never Married
• Alien Christmas
• Where Particle Sheep Safely Wave-'The Cartoon History of Time'
• I Create Gods All The Time
• Speech To the Tory Party Conference
• I'm Slipping Away A Bit At A Time
• Speak Its Name To Kill Dementia
• Palliative Care
• I'll Die Before The Endgame
• When The Time Comes
• Joshua Easment
• Signing Nearly Killed Me
• Dr Who Saturday Teatime
• When The Children Read Fantasy
• The Secrets of my Success
• Colin Smythe: Contributions by Terry Pratchett