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Terry Pratchett

A collection of short fiction spanning the Carnegie Medal-winning author's career includes pieces from his school years, his early writing jobs and the successful Discworld series.

Collected Shorter Fiction

A Blink of the Screen

A collection of short fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from schooldays to Discworld and the present day. 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, and 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 Terry's 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.

Janice Hopper

Even lesser Pratchett is still Pratchett. I enjoyed seeing the genesis of The Long Earth stories. I actually thought the non-Discworld stories were a little better than the Discworld ones. Some I'd read before, but I was happy to hear them again.

I still miss him. I probably should have saved this for after I read The Shepherd's Crown. Oh well.

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A Blink of the Screen Collected Shorter Fiction

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