Once More With Footnotes

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                  Terry Pratchett is the author of, mostly, the thirty-one novels in the Discworld series, which have something like 55,000,000 copies worldwide.
     
                  He began writing in his teens, but actually followed t he advice that old writers give to new writers, which is: get another job to pay the bills. This may have been a bad idea because he chose newspaper journalism, which was great fun but gave him practically no spare time in which to write. So he got a job a s a PR man in the UK's electricity supply industry, thinking that handling the Press for four nuclear power stations would be a nice quiet life.
     
                  This turned out to be untrue, because of some place called Three Mile Island.
     
                  Nevertheless, as a relaxation from the demands of his day-and-night job, he invented Discworld, a fantasy world with wizards, witches, heroes, dragons, and other mythological fauna, but where people act as if they are real. It sold so well that within a few years he was able to quit t he day-and-night job because he was making more money from his hobby.
     
                  Since then he has published at a rate of, usually, two books a year. Most are in the Discworld series, but he also writes for children (The Johnny Maxwell books, The Bromeliad) and, wi th Neil G aiman, co-authored Good Omens, a book about the lighter side of Armageddon which might just possibly turn into a movie before Armageddon happens for real .
     
                  While other ventures are planned, Discworld continue s . In recent years it has split into " adult" and "children's" series. The difference between them is that one deals with serious themes, while the other one is for adults.
     
     
     
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Once More With Footnotes
     
     
     
     
    Terry Pratchett
     
     
     
     
    Edited by Priscilla Olson and Sheila M. Perry
     
     
                 
     
    The NESFA Press
    Post Office Box 809
    Framingham, MA 01701
    2004
     

Copyright 1963-2004 by Terry and Lyn Prat chett
    Dust jacket illustration copyright 2004 by Omar Rayyan
    Dust jacket photograph courtesy of Mike Benveniste
     
     
     
    "Terry Pratchett: The Man, The Myth, The Legend, The Beverage"
    copyright 2004 by Esther Friesner
     
     
     
    "The Titles That Got Away" copyright 2004 by Priscilla Olson
     
     
     
     
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    FIRST EDITION
    Second Printing
    February, 2005
     
    International Standard Book Number:
    1-886778-57-4
     

First Appearances
     
     
     
    # ifdefDEBUG + "world/enough" + "time": Digital Dreams, ed. David V. Barrett, Hodder a nd Stoughton, Great Britain, 1990.
     
    2001: The Vision and the Reality: The Sunday Times, December 24, 2000.
     
    Alien Christmas: Ansible, ed. Dave Langford, August/September 1987.
     
    And Mind the Monoliths: Bath & West Evening Chronicle, April 3, 1983.
     
    The Ankh -Morpork National Anthem: BBC Radio 4, January 15, 1999.
     
    The Big Store (published as A Word from Terry Pratchett): Programme Book, March 2002.
     
    The Choice Word: newspaper article.
     
    Cult Classic: Meditations on Middle Earth, ed. Karen Haber, St. Martin's P ress, New York: 2001.
     
    Death and What Comes Next: Timehunt On-line Games.
     
    Doctor Who?: original to this collection.
     
    Elves Were Bastards: Hillcon III Souvenir Booklet, Beneluxcon 18, 1992.
     
    Faces of Fantasy/On Writing: The Faces of Fantasy, ed. James Fren kel, photographs by Patti Perret, TOR Books, New York, 1996.
     
    Final Reward: GM Magazine, October 1988.
     
    Foreword to "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable": Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable, Millennium Edition, Cassell, London, 1999.
     
    FTB (published as The Megabyte Drive to Believe in Santa Claus): Western Daily Press, December 24, 1996.
     
    The Hades Business: Science Fantasy Magazine, ed. John Carnell, No. 60, vol. 20, 1963.
     
    High Tech, Why Tech?: The Electronic Author, Summer 1993.
     
    Hollywood Chicken s: More Tales from