But his imagination didn't stop at creating an entire world - he wrote books about cats, meditations on JRR Tolkien and, famously, a 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, called Good Omens, about what might have happened if the Antichrist had been raised as an ordinary little boy.Īuthor Interviews With Fading Memory, Terry Pratchett Revisits 'Carpet People' His first Discworld book, The Color of Magic, came out in 1983. The stories became his first novel, The Carpet People. He left school at the age of 17 to write for his local paper, where, among other things, he wrote a series of stories about the tiny people that live in your carpet. Pratchett originally wanted to be a journalist. He allowed them to be fully human, even if they were rocks who walked." "He was just so compassionate, even to the most horrible of his characters. "He really had the gift of making fun of human foolishness without being cruel," says fantasy author Delia Sherman, who has taught college classes on Pratchett's work. How?įew writers were as insightful and just plain good as Pratchett was at winkling out all the secret scraps of human nature and then disguising them as broad comic fantasy. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. OL453660W Page_number_confidence 84.44 Pages 182 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20221111141359 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 176 Scandate 20221107175614 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780552144308 Tts_version 5.Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Color of Magic Subtitle A Novel of Discworld Author Terry Pratchett Urn:oclc:record:959968769 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier terrypratchettsw0000brig Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s22nrf01hgz Invoice 1652 Isbn 0552144304ĩ780552144308 Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.18 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-1300189 Openlibrary_edition Wyrd sisters Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Boxid IA40762723 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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