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The Ultimate Discworld Companion

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Your guide to the entirety of Discworld®, from The Colour of Magicto The Shepherd’s Crown, and everything in between. The Ultimate Discworld Companioncovers the riotous, intricate, and exuberant world that is the life’s work of master storyteller Terry Pratchett. Pratchett, Terry; Stephen Briggs (2021). The Ultimate Discworld Companion. Gollancz. ISBN 978-1-47-322350-9. Hardcover, UK edition, 448 pp. From Ankh-Morpork to Zambingo, and Cori Celesti to the Circle Sea, we invite you to explore Terry Pratchett’s Discworld with the most incredibly detailed, double-sided, fully-illustrated, monumental map of the Discworld ever to have existed! Your guide to the entirety of Discworld®, from The Colour of Magic to The Shepherd’s Crown, and everything in between. The Ultimate Discworld Companion covers the riotous, intricate, and exuberant world that is the life’s work of master storyteller Terry Pratchett.

From Sator Square to The Tower of Art, explore the buildings and grounds of Unseen University, Discworld’s foremost magical educational establishment, and in our opinion the finest and funniest school of wizardry in literature! Look no further. Compiled and perfected by Stephen Briggs, the man behind The Ultimate Discworld Companion‘s predecessor Turtle Recall, this is your ultimate guide to Sir Terry Pratchett’s beloved fantasy world. This giant map of wizardly proportions is an essential aid for prospective students of the magical arts, and anybody likely to get lost on campus. And lets, face it, getting lost in the bowels of the UU could be quite a time-consuming or, at worst, terminal affair. What a boon then to visitors, students and scholars alike to have this indispensable guide to hand!One side features a glorious full-colour rendition of Unseen University and environs, while the reverse offers a superbly detailed written tour and guide to the University’s rules, traditions, features and facilities. Read it like a broadsheet paper as only the discerning wizard might. The Companion contains precise definitions of words, people, places and events that have appeared in at least one Discworld novel, map, diary or non-fiction book, or in one of the three short stories " Troll Bridge", " Theatre of Cruelty", and " The Sea and Little Fishes". Material is often quoted directly from these sources, but, in each successive edition, also includes information that had not yet been worked into the novels. For instance, William de Worde is mentioned in the first edition of the Companion six years before the publication of The Truth, the novel in which he is introduced. At the end of each article is an abbreviation indicating the book(s) in which the word, person, event or place appears, though if there are too many, no abbreviation is used. The book includes an introduction by Stephen Briggs and an interview with Terry Pratchett, both of which have been updated in each edition. Here be dragons . . . and barbarians, luggages, druids, gods, portals to fairyland and cities of a thousand surprises . . . The Discworld Companion is an encyclopaedia of the Discworld fictional universe, created by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs. [1] Four editions have been published, under varying titles. Stephen Briggs lives in Oxfordshire and has been involved for many years in the sinister world of amateur dramatics, which is how he came to discover the Discworld. Having read one book, he was hooked and read the entire canon over the next three weeks. As well as compiling THE DISCWORLD COMPANION, THE NEW DISCWORLD COMPANION and TURTLE RECALL: THE DISCWORLD COMPANION ... SO FAR, he has also co-authored the Discworld Diaries, the Mapps and has dramatised most of the Discworld novels.

An updated edition of the Companion, published on 18 October 2012, was called Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion ... So Far and included information from all the novels up to and including Snuff. [2] Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe.Pratchett, Terry; Stephen Briggs (1994). The Discworld Companion. London: Gollancz. ISBN 0-575-05764-5. Hardcover Pratchett, Terry; Stephen Briggs (2012). Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion...So Far. London: Gollancz. ISBN 978-0-575-09118-4. Hardcover This beautiful (and weighty at 4.5kgs) volume is the essential guide to Discworld’s characters, concepts and creatures, assembled by Terry’s long-time collaborators, Discworld archivist Stephen Briggs and official Discworld artist Paul Kidby.

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