A Blink of the Screen: Collected Short Fiction

Terry Pratchett

ISBN 10: 0385618980 / ISBN 13: 9780385618984

Published by Doubleday 11/10/2012, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Blink of the Screen: Collected Short Fiction
• Publisher: Doubleday 11/10/2012
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385618980
• ISBN 13: 9780385618984
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short form fiction collected into one volume. A "Blink of the Screen" charts the course of Pratchett's long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press,; to the origins of his debut novel, "The Carpet People"; and on again to the dizzy mastery of the phenomenally successful "Discworld" series. Here are characters both familiar and yet to be discovered; abandoned worlds and others still expanding; adventure, chickens, death, disco and, actually, some quite disturbing ideas about Christmas,all of it shot through with his inimitable brand of humour. With an introduction by Booker Prize-winning author A.S. Byatt, illustrations by the late Josh Kirby and drawings by the author himself, this is a book to treasure.

About the Author

Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books which have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood for services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.

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