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This ‘Discworld Anthology’ combines four editions of the now-quite-rare Discworld Diaries into one volume, Volume II of the anthologies.

Since Terry’s demise they have continued to be published by The Discworld Emporium, but are still going strong today. Co-written by Pratchett with Stephen Briggs, they not only offered Discworld enthusiasts a means of counting the days through the year until the next novel was published, but also gave new information about Discworld that was not detailed in the novels, often written by or written with the supervision and guidance of Terry himself.įilled with prose about the background and history of the societies and people of the Discworld universe that fans would appreciate, and copiously illustrated by Paul Kidby, fans would buy them and keep them as addendums to the novels Terry was writing. The Discworld Diaries have been a Discworld staple (and a very popular seller) since 1998. And for the Discworld fan, this is their present.īackground first. With this in mind, and with Christmas approaching, it may not be too much of a surprise to see the appearance of old material repackaged into what I call “coffee-table” books – those large tomes on glossy paper filled with the sort of thing that would go nicely as a Yuletide gift for the fan. Despite this, every year the number of fans seems to grow.

To be fair, as the realm of the Discworld extends to over 40 novels, there’s a mine of material out there, even if it is said that anything new from Terry will not happen – there’s no collection of unpublished stories, essays or anything else out there waiting to appear, as I understand it. Are you a fan of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld? Or, indeed, are you a fairly new fan of Discworld?ĭespite the author’s death in 2015, it seems that in 2020 the appetite for ‘Pratchett stuff’ remains undiminished, especially in Britain.

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