Reading order
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Mapps series: 0 books + 4 companion books.
Read them in the order they were published
Companion
This is a fold-out map and pull-out booklet depicting the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. It charts landmarks from Unseen University to the Shades, including the Patrician's Palace and the Dwarf Bread Museum in Whirligig Alley. Stephen Player provided the final artwork-grade map.
Companion
This atlas presents a large fold-out map of the Discworld, drawn by Stephen Player following directions from Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs. It includes a short booklet recounting the expeditions and discoveries of the Disc's notable explorers.
Companion
A fold-out map and companion booklet to the kingdom of Lancre in the Ramtop Mountains, compiled by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs and illustrated by Paul Kidby. The guide covers the picturesque terrain where Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick live, in a land where magic is strong and even the rocks move.
Companion
This companion volume maps out the home of Death, the Grim Reaper of Discworld. It features a fold-out map of his estate, including an insane golf course, a useless maze, dark gardens, and the reason Death cannot understand rockeries. Readers also learn what happens to garden gnomes.
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About the author
Sir Terry Pratchett OBE (1948–2015) was an English author born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, best known for the satirical fantasy Discworld series. He published his first short story at thirteen and wrote more than 70 books. Discworld is set on a flat world carried by four elephants standing on a giant turtle; across 41 novels he used that premise to examine politics, religion, money, death, war, and everyday...
Also by Terry Pratchett: Bromeliad Trilogy, Equal Rites, The Colour of Magic, Guards! Guards!, Men at Arms, Raising Steam, Reaper Man
Terry Pratchett reflects on his introduction to science fiction fandom and how meeting established authors inspired him to write.
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Pratchett recalls that early sci-fi conventions were low-tech gatherings of men in sports jackets, where he first experienced both drinking beer and throwing up.
“a science fiction convention was a room full of guys in sports jackets all called Ted”
Pratchett explains that early science fiction had a built-in ethos where famous authors mingled freely and were willing to share advice with aspiring writers.
“built in to the whole science fiction ethos was that you paid forward”
Meeting literary figures like Arthur C. Clarke made Pratchett realise that writers were not mythical giants, giving him the confidence to write down his own stories.
“these authors, who were in my imagination men of gold half a mile high, were normal people.”
Pratchett describes fandom as a democratic space that naturally inspires people to write, noting how that creative impulse persists in modern online fan fiction.
“The democracy of the low literary world, the gutter literary world!”
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