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	Terry Pratchett Discworld novels - books by Terry Pratchett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Discworld, a flat circular place inhabited by a plethora of fine and jovial creatures sits on the back of four elephants and is propelled through space on a giant turtle.
		Monstrous Regiment (Discworld S.): The Monstrous Regiment in question is made up of a vampire, a troll, Igor, a collection of misfits and a young woman who shoves a pair of socks down her pants to join the army.
		Going Postal (Discworld S.): The Monstrous Regiment in question is made up of a vampire, a troll, Igor, a collection of misfits and a young woman who shoves a pair of socks down her pants to join the army.
	www.supertrolley.com /terrypratchettdiscworld.html (1758 words)

	Discworld - Uncyclopedia
		Discworld is a series of books created by Terry Pratchett, a more prominent citizen of the United Kingdom.
		The Discworld is situated on the backs of four giant hedgehogs, which in turn rest on the back of a giant turtle, which is held up by jacklifters, which rest of Winnebago, the cosmic mobile home/Caravan.
		Most of these were written in the year 1337, but despite this, they still manage to have relevance and humour, particularly the ones about the idiocy of the American government.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Discworld (417 words)

	Other Discworld Publications
		The Discworld Almanak, for the Year of the Prawn; by Terry Pratchett and Bernard Pearson, published 2004 by Doubleday.
		This Discworld tale weaves between Cohen and Stewart's cuting edge scientific explorations into human evolution and the development of the human mind, culture, language, art, and science as fostered by Discworld wizards.
		This, the first major revision of the Companion since the publication of Hogfather, covers the Discworld novels from Jingo onwards, including The Last Hero and Maurice and his Amazing Educated Rodents, as well as the diaries, plays and lots of other Discworld spinoffery.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/1777/other_pub.html (1582 words)

	Terry Pratchett
		He began writing the Discworld books in 1983 and was able to quit "work" and begin writing full-time by 1987.
		Fans may also want The Discworld Mapp (1995) - a booklet, really, with some general silliness included - but the map folds out to poster size which is nice.
		This is not a Discworld novel, but a re-release of a joint effort by Pratchett and Gaiman originally published in 1990.
	www.heartoglory.com /fantasy/terry-pratchett.php (1681 words)

	CriticWeb::Archive - The New Discworld Companion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This time, however, it draws its material not only from the first 30 Discworld novels and novellas — from The Colour of Magic to The Wee Free Men — but from associated maps, guides, diaries, cookbooks, short stories, and two volumes of The Science of Discworld.
		Some of the lesser characters that were featured in earlier editions of the Companion have been left out this time in order to make room for new information about the ‘big’ characters that have been featured in more recent books, or, perhaps more accurately, for characters that better support a joke.
		Recommended for fans of Discworld, although if you’re really a fan, you’ll know all this stuff anyway, and reading it again out of context may spoil the jokes.
	www.critic.co.nz /showfeature.php?id=222 (297 words)

	Terry Pratchett Discworld Bookstore
		Weaving together a fast-paced Discworld novelette with cutting-edge scientific commentary on the evolution and development of the human mind, culture, language, art, and science, The Globe presents a fascinating and brilliantly original view of the world we live in.
		As Discworld moves towards a collision with a malevolent red star, there is only one possible saviour, Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world.
		Terry Pratchett is the bestselling author of the Discworld novels; Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick; Jack Cohen is a biologist and science writer.
	www.themagicalblend.com /nebula/pratchett.html (3285 words)

	Terry Pratchett & Stephen Briggs: The New Discworld Companion
		Pratchett has excessively prolific in the nine years since this edition was published, necessitating the publication of The New Discworld Companion, which covers the sixteen novels and two short stories of the first book as well as fourteen additional novels, maps, diaries, cookbooks, popular science texts, and, finally, an additional short story.
		One of the interesting features of The New Discworld Companion is the decision not to outline all the adventures suffered by the various characters.
		The book also serves a useful purpose to those only now diving into the Discworld, in that they can use it to gain insight into some of the off-hand comments made in the books based on the long history Pratchett has with his characters and his world.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/companion.html (603 words)

	The Discworld Companion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Discworld Companion is an encyclopedia of all things Discworldian, created by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs.
		At the end of each article is an abbreviation indicating the book(s) in which the word, person, event or place appeared (if there are too many, then no abbreviation is used).
		Very useful for any Discworld fan, it is also nearly indispensable for readers who have bought one of the quiz books.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Discworld_Companion (364 words)

	Discworld Intro
		Whatever the explantion, the fact is that the surface features of the Discworld uncannily mirror those of spher-ical rocky worlds, as though the Creator had seen one somewhere but had to go ahead without a chance to examine the works.
		Inspection of residual magic in deep sea rocks and very old trolls suggests that it was also around this time that the Discworld first changed its direction of spin, a phenomenon that appears to occur every hundred thou-sand years or so, possibly for the comfort of the elephants.
		Taken from The Discworld Companion by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs (stolen from http://finnfma.co.uk/dd/)
	members.fortunecity.com /sampp/intro.htm (1650 words)

	Writer Groupie's Favorite Books -- Discworld (series)
		Is it enough to say that the Discworld is a flat world that travels through space on the backs of four elephants which are themselves riding upon the back of an immense space turtle?
		The main city on the main continent of the Discworld is Ankh-Morpork where many stories are set.
		The Discworld books started life as a parody of traditional fantasy novels, but evolved to become social commentary on topics ranging from politics to the media, the military, religion, fads, and Australia.
	www.writergroupie.com /books/discworld.htm (395 words)

	About the Discworld - The (Unofficial) Discword Library
		My main source of reference is the Discworld Companion (Updated) (1997), the Discworld novels, various other Discworld merchandise and from my own experience and memory.
		[Everything on the Discworld is positioned somewhere in relation to the Rim (the edge of the planet) and the Hub (the centre of the planet).] The Hub...is never closely warmed by the weak sun and the lands there are permanently locked in permafrost.
		The Discworld should not exist...The fact that it does exist means that it occupies an area of space where reality is extremely thin, where 'should be' no longer has the veto it has in the rest of the universe.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /discworldlibrary/discworld.html (1327 words)

	Reckless Encounters Spotlight 8 August 2005 - Discworld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Discworld rests on the shoulders of four giant elephants, that in turn stand on Great A'Tuin the turtle, swimming through space.
		Our focus is on the gaming side of Discworld, so we are not going to write reams here about the setting, the books, the literary merit..
		Discworld bye Nighte is an online resource containing much much more material for the Discworld Roleplaying Game and The Turtle Move is Discworld roleplaying community.
	www.recklessencounters.co.uk /spotlight050808-discworld.htm (520 words)

	The Discworld Compendium: Assorted Venues and Enterprizes
		There are also two popular-science books, "Science of the Discworld" and "Science of the Discworld 2: The Globe", in which Ian Cohen and Jack Stewart use the framework of a story by Terry Pratchett to explain intricacies of Roundworld science.
		Unfortunately, according to Discworld Monthly issue 26, the producers' license has been terminated as a result of of their failure to keep to the terms of their contract.
		Discworld Monthly reviewers say the songs range from the likes of Chuck Berry to the Beatles to Jimi Hendrix (although some say "The Touchstone" has some Metallica references).
	www.extenuation.net /disc/merchandise.html (782 words)

	The Vetinari Library: The Discworld Companion
		There have been no monarchs in Ankh-Morpork for 300 years, since the death of the last and possibly nastiest (see Lorenzo the Kind).
		The holder of the office throughout the Discworld chronicles is Lord Havelock Vetinari.
		A small, toothless and exceedingly elderly wire-haired terrier with a bristly stub of a tail, who smells bad and wheezes at people.
	www.ealasaid.com /fan/vetinari/vl-companion.html (1670 words)

	The Discworld. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		So begins the first Discworld book: The Color of Magic, the adventures of the Discworld's first tourist, Twoflower, and his possibly not-so-incompetent guide, Rincewind the Wizard.
		The Discworld is the creation of British writer Terry Pratchett.
		Not because of the subject matter (I don't care if women are in the military, police, fire departments, etc. so long as they meet the same physical requirements as the men.), I just didn't care about any of the characters and I kept getting confused about who was who (lots of people with multiple names).
	members.cox.net /bobclemins/hobbies_books_discworld.htm (1137 words)

	Amazon.fr : The New Discworld Companion: Livres en anglais: Terry Pratchett,Stephen Briggs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Amazon.fr : The New Discworld Companion: Livres en anglais: Terry Pratchett,Stephen Briggs
		Terry Pratchett's enormously successful comic fantasies need no introduction, but the Discworld saga is so wide-ranging as to require its own encyclopaedia: The New Discworld Companion, latest revision of the original 1994 Discworld Companion.
		Once again the alphabetical round-up of Discworld's people, places, creatures, organisations, books, food and miscellanea is (to hi-tech Pratchett's alleged disgust) based on Stephen Briggs's much-thumbed, uncomputerised card index.
	www.amazon.fr /New-Discworld-Companion-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0575075554 (484 words)

	TerryPratchettBooks.com
		Welcome to Ankh-Morpork, Discworld's most happening city and so carefully described it could be considered a character in its own right.
		Divided in two by the River Ankh—a waterway so thick with silt that it should really be considered a walkway instead,** Ankh-Morpork is one of those rather large cosmopolitan burgs that, like a lot of others with a similar claim to fame, always seems on the move but never really goes anywhere.
		Once inside, gaze in wild wonder at its violation of physics with seemingly endless rows and shelves of tomes magical and otherwise—theoretically all of the books in existence, as well as those that were never written.
	www.terrypratchettbooks.com /discworld/dollar.html (660 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The New Discworld Companion
		I imagine that anyone who picks up The New Discworld Companion by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs, will be able to give a brief synopsis of the various major entities and places on the Discworld, whether it be Rincewind, Ankh-Morpork, or the Luggage.
		Flipping through the companion, which is probably the manner in which most fans will read the book, there are numerous fun essays on the varied aspects of the Discworld, although none of them are a substitute for the book(s) they describe.
		In fact, the majority of The New Discworld Companion is comprised of entries such as Lio!rt, the dragonlord who made a brief appearance in The Colour of Magic, or Wahoonie, a vegetable that only grows in Howandaland.
	www.sfsite.com /07a/nd155.htm (561 words)

	The New Discworld Companion by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs
		Discworld is not a safe place without it.
		Discworld works on the Tinkerbell premise: belief can bring into being an entity while denial of something real, ie Gaspode, Foul Ole Ron’s talking dog, goes unnoticed because it is generally known that dogs are unable to talk.
		If by some fluke the Discworld books become unavailable, their essence will live on in the bones of this volume of concentrated humour of fantasy’s best known planet.
	www.computercrowsnest.com /articles/books/2003/nz7048.php (431 words)

	Discworld (computer game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		in America), Discworld Noir (a stand alone story starring an original character) and a text adventure called The Colour of Magic which strictly adheres to the events of the first Discworld novel.
		The majority of the game's characters are voiced by Jon Pertwee (who played Doctor Who in the long running series of the same name) and Tony Robinson (who played Baldrick in Blackadder), while Kate Robbins and Rob Brydon voice the rest.
		Discworld - Discworld 2 - Discworld MUD - Discworld Noir - GURPS Discworld - Thud
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Discworld_(computer_game) (404 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The New Discworld Companion (Gollancz SF): Books: Terry Pratchett,Stephen Briggs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Discworld Companion (1994) proclaimed itself to be the definitive, and only guide...but then Terry Pratchett wrote a bunch of fantastic new books.
		They changed Discworld, and expanded on the characters and so the answer was clear, and the New Discworld Companion was written.
		This is a must for Discworld fans, and anyone else who wants to know what happens when the Quantum Weather Butterfly flaps its wings, or how to select the best Bonsai Mountain to cultivate.
	www.amazon.co.uk /New-Discworld-Companion-Gollancz-SF/dp/0575074671 (1497 words)

	Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, a Discworld fantasy book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Pratchett's Discworld books include characters such as the inept wizard Rincewind, witch Granny Weatherwax, the City Guard or Night Watch, and Death.
		Discworld Assassin's Guild Yearbook and Diary 2000 (with Stephen Briggs, 1999)
		Discworld Thieves' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2002 (with Stephen Briggs, 2001)
	members.aol.com /misuly/pratchett.htm (696 words)

	Review of Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs' The New Discworld Companion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This is a completely revised and updated edition of the original Discworld Companion published nearly a decade ago in 1994.
		However it is important to note that it will be as necessary to those fans as will be retaining the original companion, for in order to squeeze in nearly a decades worth of new Discworld data (nine new books) the editor had to drop some of the small characters cited in the original volume.
		A vital reference for Discworld devotees yes, and there are literally hundreds of thousands of these Worldwide so it will sell.
	www.concatenation.org /nfrev/discworldcomp2.html (190 words)

	Terry Pratchett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Discworld: a world bursting with magic, a land of contrasts and extremes that floats through space on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle.
		The seasoned Discworld traveller knows exactly how to get from Madams’ Gardens to the Mended Drum (left up Easy Street, right onto Welcome Soap, fork left onto Filigree Street and the Drum is on the left, just opposite the Short Street turn).
		A Discworld Tale of One City, with a full chorus of street urchins, ladies of negotiable affection, rebels, secret policemen and other children of the revolution.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/terrypratchett.html (1097 words)

	Discworld Merchandise - The (Unofficial) Discword Library
		I couldn't possibly hope to catalogue all existing Discworld merchandise as there is a wealth of it, both official and unofficial.
		All of the Discworld novels are released as audio books, on cassette tape and CD, and are widely available from all good retailers.
		"This Discworld is an unpredictable place, what with rivers you can skateboard across (if they weren't so knobbly), rocks that tend to stroll about of an evening and points of raw magic that can turn a body inside out as soon as look at it.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /discworldlibrary/merchandise.html (1330 words)

	Terry Pratchett - Discworld
		The New Discworld Companion (with Stephen Briggs, 03/2003)
		Stephen Briggs is the Discworld's cartographer, historian and herald.
		GURPS Discworld brought roleplayers to Terry Pratchett's Discworld (and vice-versa).
	www.lspace.de /books/books-dwspinoff.html (2790 words)

	Terry Pratchett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		They collaborated to write the best selling Discworld Companion and a host of other Discworld projects including published dramatizations of Terry’s books.
		A Discworld Tale of One City, with a full chorus of street urchins, rebels, secret policemen and other children of the revolution.
		As a side-line he now sells an exclusive range of Discworld merchandise direct to Terry’s readers, an enterprise he stumbled info by accident.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/terrypratchetta.html (1073 words)

	The Science of Discworld II: The Globe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (ISBN 0-09-188805-0) is a 2002 book written by the novelist Terry Pratchett and the popular science writers Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen.
		It is the sequel to the book The Science of Discworld by the same authors.
		Where the first book centred on the origins of the universe, earth and the beginnings of life, the second part follows the modern history of Earth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Science_of_Discworld_II:_The_Globe (588 words)

	What People Are Saying About GURPS Discworld
		GURPS Discworld is a fantasy world with situation comedy, one which works as a game setting--unlike other comedic efforts such as Toon.
		It's best seen as the basis for designing a campaign; while you won't find one ready-made here, there are plenty of ideas for rolling your own, and tweaking it to fit the interests of referee and players.
		When I showed the book to my girlfriend (who loves Discworld but is not a gamer) she repeatedly commented that the characters looked exactly as she'd imagined them.
	www.sjgames.com /gurps/books/discworld/comments.html (630 words)

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