Edition |
First United States edition. |
Description |
xiv, 286 pages, 12 pages of unnumbered plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm |
Summary |
A collection of short fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from schooldays to Discworld and the present day. |
Contents |
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 an 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 -- Discworld shorter writings. Troll bridge ; Theatre of cruelty ; The sea 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 devlish devices ; Minutes of the meeting to form the proposed Ankh-Morpork Federation of Scouts ; The Ankh-Morpork Football Association Hall of Fame playing cards -- Appendix : Deleted extract from "The Sea and Little Fishes." |
Subject |
Discworld (Imaginary place) -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Fantasy fiction.
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Short stories.
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Added Title |
Short stories. Selections
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ISBN |
9780385538329 (hardback) |
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0385538324 (hardback) |
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9780804169219 (paperback) |
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0804169217 (paperback) |
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