A blink of the screen : collected shorter fiction

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Grouping Title	blink of the screen collected shorter fiction
Grouping Author	terry pratchett
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Grouping Language	English (eng)
Last Grouping Update	2024-03-22 03:09:47AM
Last Indexed	2024-04-24 03:15:44AM

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Pratchett, Terry

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Pratchett, Terry

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"A collection of short fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from schooldays to Discworld and the present day. In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short-form fiction collected into one volume. A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett's long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press, and the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on again to the dizzy mastery of the phenomenally successful Discworld series. Here are characters both familiar and yet to be discovered; abandoned worlds and others still expanding; adventure, chickens, death, disco and, actually, some quite disturbing ideas about Christmas, all of it shot through with Terry's inimitable brand of humour. With an introduction by Booker Prize-winning author A.S. Byatt, illustrations by the late Josh Kirby and by Paul Kidby, and drawings by the author himself, this is a book to treasure"--

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9780385538329
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PRATCHET

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Wake County Public Libraries

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Fuquay-Varina Community
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9780385538329

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2015

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Doubleday

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A blink of the screen : collected shorter fiction

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A blink of the screen : collected shorter fiction / Terry Pratchett ; foreword by A.S. Byatt

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A blink of the screen

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collected shorter fiction

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