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.
Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. In 1987, he turned to writing full time.
There are over 40 books in the Discworld series, of which four are written for children. The first of these, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal.
A non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback - Harper Torch, 2006 - and trade paperback - Harper Paperbacks, 2006).
In 2008, Harper Children's published Terry's standalone non-Discworld YA novel, Nation. Terry published Snuff in October 2011.
Regarded as one of the most significant contemporary English-language satirists, Pratchett has won numerous literary awards, was named an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to literature” in 1998, and has received honorary doctorates from the University of Warwick in 1999, the University of Portsmouth in 2001, the University of Bath in 2003, the University of Bristol in 2004, Buckinghamshire New University in 2008, the University of Dublin in 2008, Bradford University in 2009, the University of Winchester in 2009, and The Open University in 2013 for his contribution to Public Service.
In Dec. of 2007, Pratchett disclosed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. On 18 Feb, 2009, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
He was awarded the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award in 2010.
Sir Terry Pratchett passed away on 12th March 2015.
About Neil Gaiman
I make things up and write them down. Which takes us from comics (like SANDMAN) to novels (like ANANSI BOYS and AMERICAN GODS) to short stories (some are collected in SMOKE AND MIRRORS) and to occasionally movies (like Dave McKean's MIRRORMASK or the NEVERWHERE TV series, or my own short film A SHORT FILM ABOUT JOHN BOLTON).
In my spare time I read and sleep and eat and try to keep the blog at www.neilgaiman.com more or less up to date.
There is a distinct hint of Armageddon in the air. According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded, thankfully, in 1655, before she blew up her entire village and all its inhabitants, who had gathered to watch her burn), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, the Four Bikers of the Apocalypse are revving up their mighty hogs and hitting the road, and the world's last two remaining witch-finders are getting ready to fight the good fight, armed with awkwardly antiquated instructions and stick pins. Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. . . . Right. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. </p>
Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon -- each of whom has lived among Earth's mortals for many millennia and has grown rather fond of the lifestyle -- are not particularly looking forward to the coming Rapture. If Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from happening, they've got to find and kill the Antichrist (which is a shame, as he's a really nice kid). There's just one glitch: someone seems to have misplaced him. . . . </p>
First published in 1990, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's brilliantly dark and screamingly funny take on humankind's final judgment is back -- and just in time -- in a new hardcover edition (which includes an introduction by the authors, comments by each about the other, and answers to some still-burning questions about their wildly popular collaborative effort) that the devout and the damned alike will surely cherish until the end of all things. </p>
(老文存档,部分已发表于《科幻世界译文版》2007年4月号) 人类一思考,上帝就发笑——简评《好兆头》 ================== 我很喜欢一句犹太谚语:"人们一思索,上帝就发笑"。这句谚语带给我灵感,我常想象拉伯雷(Francois Rabelais)...
评分《好兆头》里的搞笑段落(2007-03-08 12:01:37) 转载 分类:随便摘摘 (摘录) 亚茨拉菲尔收藏书籍很长时间了。和其他藏书人一样,他也有自己的偏好。 他有六十多本预言书,主题都是第二个千年最后几世纪的事件。他特别喜好王尔德的初版书;还有一整套错版圣经,...
评分是谁让世界更糟糕? 魔王撒旦抑或造物主上帝? 还是我们人类自己? 不清楚,不过作为人类中的一员,我却说是窗外不眠不休的汽车噪音和空气中缠缠绵绵的废物尘埃,还有街道上不知哪位老兄因为轻微咽喉问题而吐的痰,当然还有隔壁那对夫妻在凌晨过后依然惊心动魄的争吵。 这样...
评分仿佛在看文字版的《极品基老伴》 克鲁利和亚茨拉菲尔这对CP,只要碰一起,准是在拌嘴。 这是他们日常秀恩爱的惯有模式。 但通常克鲁利总会甘拜下风,准确的说,是“很自觉”的甘拜下风。 这之后表现的各种小动作,似乎都在对另外一个人十分委屈地发泄着不满:“对对对,就你说...
评分如果要从当代英国幻想小说作家中选出两个代表人物,除了举世闻名的JK罗琳之外,当属写出了《碟形世界》的特里·普拉切特和《美国众神》、《乌有乡》的创造者尼尔·盖曼。他们俩也是一对忘年之交,不但彼此惺惺相惜,而且在1996年一起写出了融汇两人之长的这本《好兆头》。 《好...
很智慧的作品,很值得看一看。 但是作品感觉缺少一种更加成熟的气质,似乎两位作者都是玩一玩而已。
评分Terry在书最后的访谈里提到说Neil特别喜欢别人拿着那种被翻过很多次的、掉进水里的、并用偏黄色透明胶带仔细修补好的Good Omens请他签名 看到这里惊了一下 因为我的书也是被咖啡浸湿过 被雨淋过 掉进过水里的状态 他们两个真是有趣的人… 20190624更新:偶遇Neil并要到了签名 唯一的遗憾是当天没有带着已经被翻的很旧的书 冲进书店买了一本全新的让他签名 只好反复向他assure that I did really have my Good Omens fall into the fountain once
评分超赞!!!!!!!!!!!
评分因为对宗教的不了解所以一开始看的好累 总之是本非常有意思的书 希望能看到电影版
评分笑屎了。。。。。
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