Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBEwas an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971; after the first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, he wrote two books a year on average. His 2011 Discworld novel Snuff was at the time of its release the third-fastest-selling hardback adult-readership novel since records began in the...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 April 1948
CityBeaconsfield, England
It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.
He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.
This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.
There will be justice," said Brutha. "If there is no justice, there is nothing.
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.
Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You forgot that it wasn't a game down there. People died. Bits got chopped off. We're like eagles up here, he thought. Sometimes we show tortoise how to fly. Then we let go.
I think," he said, "I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one.
It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.
Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.
Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.
[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.
The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.
Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent protection.
The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).