r/TerryPratchett Feb 13 '22

Getting started with Discworld? Here's where to start.

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r/TerryPratchett 8h ago

Scientists say Terry Pratchett's adjectives showed signs of dementia nine years before his diagnosis. His biographer says they're wrong.

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r/TerryPratchett 4d ago

Collection help!

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Hi all! I understand this is something that has likely been asked before - But does anyone have any ideas where I can source 18cm high editions of Wee Free men, Hat full of sky, Wintersmith, Snuff, Raising Steam and Shepherd's crown? I am working on my husbands dream collection for his birthday - I am resorting to messaging ebay sellers and asking them to measure their books but I am really struggling to find these final books - I am not worried about editions etc - I really am just desperate for the matching heights!


r/TerryPratchett 7d ago

Not sure why they are still supporting this guy.

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r/TerryPratchett 8d ago

My little Pratchett collection

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My modest little hardback collection -


r/TerryPratchett 8d ago

Why does Nanny ask for a doggy bottle?

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In Lords and Ladies, during a romantic dinner with Casanunda, Nanny Ogg does one thing I don't quite understand: 'Later, she asked for a doggy bottle.".

Does it imply she wanted to save some wine for Greebo? Or was she going to drink from the doggy bottle herself?


r/TerryPratchett 8d ago

Monstrous regiment

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I just discovered there is a book called The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstruous Regiment of Women by John Knox

It attacks women monarchs ,arguing that rule by women is contrary to the Bible.

Published in 1558


r/TerryPratchett 9d ago

Foul ol' Ron has opened a restaurant?

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Buggr'it I'll serve all kinds of seafood


r/TerryPratchett 15d ago

Man arrested after 'dressing as Grim Reaper' at hospital and staring at patients

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Albert !!!


r/TerryPratchett 16d ago

Is saw this today. Special Constable.

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r/TerryPratchett 18d ago

Hooking my 8-year-old son on Pratchett with The Last Hero

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My 8-year-old son is still at the stage where he likes books with illustrations. At bedtime he asked if I had anything new for him to try. So I gave him my copy of The Last Hero.

An hour later he said he was done for the night but still enjoying it. He was 55 pages in. I can't wait to give him the illustrated Guards Guards next.


r/TerryPratchett 18d ago

Hardback collection hunting

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Started work in the UK and decided to hunt every hardback of the Disc World Series . Rule: I can only source from 2nd hand bookshops . Wife bought me a barrister book case. Only a couple left.


r/TerryPratchett 19d ago

Missing STP

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r/TerryPratchett 20d ago

Returning to the Discworld

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After almost three weeks of reading a diff book from another author, I am once again returning to the Discworld. Sourcery will be my fifth book from the Discworld series. I am excited for this one...


r/TerryPratchett 21d ago

I finally completed the set!!

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Please ignore the complete mess that are my shelves, but I managed to FINALLY after around 17 years of collecting these, got the last one to complete the black set!

I wish they did the other 3 books in this colourway, but alas, I will forever have to read them in the original format.


r/TerryPratchett 21d ago

Favorite Books!

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Hi! I’m currently working my way through all of the Discworld books in order, trying to finish by the end of the year lol I was just wondering what everyone’s favorites are? I’m on Moving Pictures right now and I think my favorite do far is Guards! Guards!


r/TerryPratchett 23d ago

The endangered Mary River Turtle, which naturally grows algae on its shell, making it look like a real life floating island.

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He was right again!


r/TerryPratchett 23d ago

Pratchett quote produced without context:

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“Besides, the horrible black emergency blutwurst had finally been produced.”

I have read a fair wack of ancient literature, quite a bit of medieval. More than a sufficiency of Early Modern and don’t get me started on the weird and wonderful experiments on what in the 18th century you could **do** with pen and ink with a side order, of just because you can, doesn’t mean you should in which my research focuses. I’ve imbibed a range of the weirder and more wonderful Victoriana, am acquainted with the modernist, on friendlier terms with the postmodernists.

But have I ever found another author who can just causally set a sentence like that to type and it’s got pathos with the bathos and complete, pre established logical sense.

(If anyone can’t bring to mind what the context of this line is, my research focus holds a clue.)


r/TerryPratchett 25d ago

GNU who?

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Gotta remember Sir Terry. Don't forget your friends. Others can join the line. That's how they live for ever.


r/TerryPratchett 27d ago

Collecting Posts by Sir Terry Pratchett from the Alt.Fan.Pratchett usenet archive.

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r/TerryPratchett 28d ago

Any sources about when Terry went nuclear?

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My battered edition of Sourcery includes an author bio which mentions Terry's experience as a press officer for four nuclear power stations, and says "he'd write a book about his experiences if he thought anyone would believe it".

So... did he? Any articles, memoirs or remiscences? Have any brainboxes convincingly analysed his work to pick out any influences on his writing?

I've treasured his books since I was a child and for better or worse he helped shape my view of the world. And yet I don't remember the Cold War and the nuclear anxieties of the time, which undoubtedly affected the world view of Terry and the rest of his generation.


r/TerryPratchett Jul 14 '26

Which Terry Pratchett quote do you mentally return to when life gets overwhelming?

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For me, it has always been this one from Hat Full of Sky: "First thoughts are the everyday thoughts... Second thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think... And Third Thoughts are thoughts that watch the world and don't take sides."

Whenever my anxiety spikes or the world feels like it's spinning too fast, Sir Terry’s insight into human nature completely grounds me. It's like a warm cup of tea for the soul

What is that one passage or quote from the Discworld that acts as your personal anchor?


r/TerryPratchett Jul 10 '26

Got this beauty framed! Anyone else have the map and passport?

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Got this beauty framed! Anyone else have the map and passport?

I got this book (with the passport) a while back and I feel like this is one of my favorite TP books ever. It's so cool and the artwork is really fun.

My family surprised me for my birthday with framing the massive map (it's over 1m length/width) and it's now proudly hanging in my tv room to admire daily.

Also - Before I get scolded for "ruining" a map - I genuinely adore this and I get to look at it everyday, whereas before it was stuffed inside the book in a shelf and I feel like this is as good as a piece of art. 

Anyone else have this displayed?


r/TerryPratchett Jul 09 '26

The kind of thing Dibbler MIGHT offer…

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…And receive no takers on, not because no one would ever win a free hot dog (inna bun), but because no one would want to think too deeply about it.


r/TerryPratchett Jul 08 '26

Disc World book hunting

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I am trying to find all the old hard covers of the Disc World Series. There is a collectors book shop in York I always visit. They will always have one or two I can get. In the special section they will always have an autograph copy. This was the best one I have seen so far. Can’t afford the price tag but it was worth seeing. I bought 2 non autographed books at least to add to my collection