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Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett sa narodil v Beaconsfielde v anglickom grófstve Bucks, Davidovi a Eileen Pratchettovcom. Svoje vzdelanie pripisuje High Wycombe Technical High School a Beaconsfieldskej verejnej knižnici.

Prvým vydaným dielom bola krátka poviedka The Hades Business (Hádova práca), uverejnená v jeho školskom časopise keď mal trinásť rokov a potom, v roku 1963, zase v časopise Science Fantasy, za čo dostal 14 libier. Druhá uverejnená práca sa nazývala Night Dweller (Nočný tvor) a objavila sa v 156. čísle časopisu New Worlds v novembri 1965.
Po odchode zo školy v roku 1965 získal prácu v miestnych novinách Bucks Free Press a neskôr pôsobil v niekoľko ďalších regionálnych novinách v juhozápadnom Anglicku vrátane Western Daily Press a Bath Chronicle.
V tomto novinárskom období bol vyslaný urobiť interview s Petrom Bander van Durenom, jedným z riaditeľov malého vydavateľstva, kde práve vychádzala nová kniha. Počas rozhovoru sa zmienil, že sám napísal knihu The Carpet People. Táto nakoniec vyšla v roku 1971 a slávnostne bola predstavená v oddelení kobercov obchodného domu Heal's na Tottenham Court Road v Londýne.
V roku 1980 sa Pratchett stal tlačovým hovorcom elektrárenskej spoločnosti Central Electricity Generating Board, kde v jeho pôsobnosti bolo niekoľko jadrových elektrárni. Neskôr vtipkoval o tom, že predviedol svoj zmysel pre dokonalé načasovanie, pretože zmena zamestnania nasledovala skoro po jadrovej katastrofe v Three Mile Island v Pennsylvánii v USA.

Prácu pre CEGB nechal v roku 1987, keď začal zarábať viac peňazí príležitostným písaním. To mu umožnilo zvýšiť tempo a v súčasnej dobe väčšinou napíše dve knihy ročne.
Od roku 1998 je držiteľom rádu za zásluhy o Britské kráľovstvo za službu literatúre. So sebe vlastnou iróniou to komentoval prehlásením v zmysle „mám podozrenie, že 'službu literatúre' preukážem, keď sa zdržím ďalších pokusov nejakú napísať“. V roku 1999 mu bol udelený čestný doktorát literatúry na univerzite vo Warwicku.
Jeho dcéra Rhianna Pratchettová (narodená 1976) je autorkou fantasy a novinárkou.
Ako svoje záľuby Pratchett uvádza „písanie, prechádzky, počítače, život“. Je dobre známy tiež vďaka svojej zvláštnej záľube v pokrývkach hlavy, čo je vidieť na zadných stranách obálok originálnych vydaniach väčšiny jeho kníh. Čitatelia ho môžu poznať aj vďaka sérii Úžasná Plochozem.

31. decembra 2008 mu kráľovná Alžbeta II. udelila za zásluhy v literatúre Rad britského impéria.

 

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Raising Steam


To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork - a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all of the elements: earth, air, fire and water. This being Ankh-Morpork, it's soon drawing astonished crowds, some of whom caught the zeitgeist early and arrive armed with notepads and very sensible rainwear. Moist von Lipwig is not a man who enjoys hard work - as master of the Post Office, the Mint and the Royal Bank his input is, of course, vital ...but largely dependent on words, which are fortunately not very heavy and don't always need greasing. However, he does enjoy being alive, which makes a new job offer from Vetinari hard to refuse...Steam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mister Simnel, the man wi' t'flat cap and sliding rule who has an interesting arrangement with the sine and cosine. Moist will have to grapple with gallons of grease, goblins, a fat controller with a history of throwing employees down the stairs and some very angry dwarfs if he's going to stop it all going off the rails...
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The Long Mars


2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across the Long Mars and wants her to accompany him. But Sally soon learns that Willis has ulterior motives...Meanwhile U. S. Navy Commander Maggie Kauffman has embarked on an incredible journey of her own, leading an expedition to the outer limits of the far Long Earth. For Joshua, the crisis he faces is much closer to home. He becomes embroiled in the plight of the Next: the super-bright post-humans who are beginning to emerge from their 'long childhood' in the community called Happy Landings, located deep in the Long Earth. Ignorance and fear are causing 'normal' human society to turn against the Next - and a dramatic showdown seems inevitable...
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Going Postal


A beautiful new hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel. Moist von Lipwig is a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It was a tough decision. But he's got to see that the mail gets though, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer. Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too.
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Last Continent


A beautiful hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel 'Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences. You might tread on an ant now and it might entirely prevent someone from being born in the future.' There's nothing like the issue of evolution to get under the skin of academics. Even if their field of expertise is magic rather than biology. With the best and most interfering minds of Unseen University somehow left in charge at a critical evolutionary turning point, the Discworld’s last continent needs a saviour… Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Sheep shearer, beer drinker, bush ranger, and someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's sober. In fact, it's Rincewind, a wizard so inept he can't even spell wizard. He's the only hero left. Still...no worries, eh?
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Monstrous Regiment


A beautiful new hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel. Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape took more time . . . And now she's enlisted in the army, and searching for her lost brother. But there's a war on. There's always a war on. And Polly and her fellow recruits are suddenly in the thick of it, without any training, and the enemy is hunting them.
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Night Watch


A beautiful new hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel. Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he's back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck... Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger self how to be a good copper and change the outcome of a bloody rebellion. There's a problem:if he wins, he's got no wife, no child, no future...
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The Truth


A beautiful hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. New printing technology means that words just won't obediently stay nailed down like usual. There's a very real threat of news getting out there. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life - people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes. William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...
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Thief Of Time


A beautiful new hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel. Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like underwater - how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time. But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will only be the start of everyone's problems.
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The Shepherd's Crown - Gift Edition


A SHIVERING OF WORLDS Deep in the chalk, something is stirring. Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots - an old enemy is gathering strength. This is a time of endings and beginnings, a blurring of edges. Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her. To protect the land, her land. There will be a reckoning . . . `Extraordinary' Daily Telegraph
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Wintersmith - Gift Edition


SAYING IT WITH FROZEN ROSES AND ICEBERGS Young witch Tiffany Aching leaps into a dance - and suddenly the spirit of winter is in love with her. Now she's dancing to his tune, and she can't change the steps. Unless she can work out how to deal with the Wintersmith, there will never be another springtime . . . `Oodles of dry wit, imagination and shrewdly observed characters' Independent on Sunday
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A Hat Full of Sky - Gift Edition


WE SEE YOU. NOW WE ARE YOU. No real witch would casually step out of their body, leaving it empty. Tiffany Aching does. And there's something just waiting for a handy body to take over. Something ancient and horrible, which can't die. To deal with it, Tiffany has to go to the very heart of what makes her a witch . . .
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I Shall Wear Midnight - Gift Edition


A man with no eyes. No eyes at all. Two tunnels in his head...It's not easy being a witch, and it's certainly not all whizzing about on broomsticks, but Tiffany Aching - teen witch - is doing her best. Until something evil wakes up, something that stirs up all the old stories about nasty old witches, so that just wearing a pointy hat suddenly seems a very bad idea. Worse still, this evil ghost from the past is hunting down one witch in particular. He's hunting for Tiffany. And he's found her...A fabulous Discworld title filled with witches and magic and told in the inimitable Terry Pratchett style, I Shall Wear Midnight is the fourth Discworld title to feature Tiffany and her tiny, fightin', boozin' pictsie friends, the Nac Mac Feegle (aka The Wee Free Men).
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The Ankh-Morpork Archives: Volume Two


Containing material unavailable for twenty years -- this is a comprehensive guide to the capital city of Terry Pratchett's Discworld, getting to the heart of Ankh-Morpork's secrets, societies and guilds. Ankh-Morpork is a bottomless pit of secrets. It's time to unearth a few more . . . In the second volume of this confidential guide, brave travellers are made privy to the inner workings of more illustrious Ankh-Morpork societies. Disabuse yourself of notions of professionalism under which you may hold the City Watch; discover what serious business is undertaken by the Fools' Guild (joking is no laughing matter); and, should you be lucky, achieve true enlightenment through the teachings of Lu-Tze. One thing's for sure: after you've read this book, Ankh-Morpork's Guilds are going to need to come up with new ways of doing things. Completely revamped and redesigned, this full-colour book contains material from Discworld Diaries across the decades.
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Magický prazdroj


Zrodil se mág tak mocný, že proti němu jsou ostatní mágové jen varietní hudlaři, a sama jeho existence přivede Zeměplochu na pokraj panmagické války. Jediný, kdo mu stojí v cestě, je Mrakoplaš, nedostudovaný kouzelník, jenž chce zachánit svět, nebo alespoň tu část, na které se sám právě nachází. K zeměplošským hrdinům, které už známe se připojí další: Conina - barbarská kadeřnice, Nijel - ničitel (jehož matička stále dohlíží na to, aby nosil vlněné spodní prádlo), a pravděpodobně první městský džin, který podniká v mosazných lampách, kde by rád objevil prostor pro vlastní růst.
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Carpe Jugulum - (Discworld Novel 23)


A beautiful hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel In this and indeed other lives there are givers and takers. It's safe to say that vampires are very much in the latter camp. They don't have much time for the givers of this world - except perhaps mealtimes - and even less for priests. Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. Lancre's newest residents are a thoroughly modern, sophisticated vampire family. They've got style and fancy waistcoats. They're out of the casket and want a bite of the future. But they haven't met the neighbours yet: between them and Lancre stand Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg. And Magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies. And young Agnes, although she is really in two minds about everything. Mightily Oats knows he has a prayer, but he wishes he had an axe.
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Jingo


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