Book:Turtle Recall
| Turtle Recall The Discworld Companion ...so far | |
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| Co-author(s) | Stephen Briggs |
| Illustrator(s) | Stephen Briggs |
| Publisher | Victor Gollancz |
| Publication date | November 2012 |
| ISBN | 0575091185 |
| Pages | 368 |
| RRP | {{{rrp}}} |
| Main characters | |
| Series | Discworld Series |
| Annotations | View |
| Notes | |
| All data relates to the first UK edition. | |
Turtle Recall is the third major edition of The Discworld Companion. It restores many (though not all) shorter entries cut from previous revisions to make room for newer ones, while keeping (and expanding on) material added to the The New Discworld Companion from the Discworld diaries (which wouldn't otherwise be collected until 2019 and 2020). It also restores - at the publisher’s request, according to Brigg’s introduction - some “introductory material” from previous editions, including the interview from the first edition, and non-fiction pieces about fan mail and translating Discworld.
There are a small number of entries relating to the first three Science of Discworld books, which are described as only “borderline canonical”. This would be slightly expanded in The Ultimate Discworld Companion, and moreso in the Dunmanifestin “Expanded Edition” of that book.
Blurb
For every Pratchett fan, the must-have, fully updated guidebook to Discworld!
The Discworld, as everyone knows, is a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the shell of the giant star turtle, the Great A'Tuin, as it slowly swims through space.
It is also a global publishing phenomenon with sales of about 85 million books worldwide (but who's counting?). The publication of Snuff brought the Discworld canon to thirty-nine books - not including the various guides, maps, diaries and other side-projects. That's a lot of Discworld to keep track of - more than most people can manage with just the one head - but fear not: help is at hand!
If you're looking for the ultimate authority on probably the most heavily populated - certainly the most hilarious - setting in fantasy literature...
If you need a handy guide to Discworld locales from Ankh-Morpork to Zemphis...
If you want help telling Achmed the Mad from Jack Zweiblumen...
If your life depends on being able to distinguish the Agatean Empire from the Zoons...
Look no further than Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion...So Far - now fully updated and completely up to Snuff!
Contents
- Where am I? - introduction by Stephen Briggs
- The Discworld A-Z
- Terry Pratchett: The Definitive Interview (from The Discworld Companion)
- Readers and Fan Mail (from The Discworld Companion, with small updates) - similar to but distinct from “Kevins”, published in A Slip of the Keyboard
- The Language Barrier (from The Discworld Companion, with small updates) - about the difficulties in translating Discworld into other languages
- Cripple Mr Onion - rules for playing the Discworld game using tarot/caroc cards, adapted from Andrew C. Millard’s fan version, with help from Terry Tao (designer of Thud)
See also
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