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A place to archive news stories from the “recent news” section on the Main Page.

2024

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)