Title:
A blink of the screen : collected shorter fiction
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Publication Date:
2012
Publication Information:
London : Doubleday, 2012.
Physical Description:
318 p., [24] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780552167734
9780385618984
Abstract:
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.
Contents:
Pt. 1. Non-Discworld shorter writings. The Hades business -- Solution -- The picture -- The prince and the partridge -- Rincemangle, the gnome of Even Moor -- Kindly breathe in short, thick pants -- The Glastonbury tales -- There's no fool like and old fool found in an English queue -- Coo, they've given me the bird -- And mind the monoliths -- The High Meggas -- Twenty pence, with envelope and seasonal greeting -- Incubust -- Final reward -- Turntables of the night -- #ifdefDEBUG + 'world/enough' + 'time' -- Hollywood chickens -- The secret book of the dead -- Once and future -- FTB -- Sir Joshua Easement : a biographical note.
Pt. 2. Discworld shorter writings. Troll bridge -- Theatre of cruelty -- The seas and little fishes -- The Ankh-Morpork national anthem -- Medical notes -- Thud : a historical perspective -- A few words from Lord Havelock Vetinari -- Death and what comes next -- A collegiate casting-out of devilish devices -- Minutes of the meeting to form the proposed Ankh-Morpork Federation of Scouts -- The Ankh-Morpork Football Association Hall of Fame playing cards.
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Language:
English
