The Monks of Discworld are also shown in their various guises. Again there are details on the rules to follow, the step programme to stop being a vampire, and details of many of the near-immortal characters, each with details of their strange habits.įor Lu-Tse we have “Lu-Tze’s Book of Enlightenment” from the 2008 Diary, a description of the man himself, details of the History Monks a wonderful Floral Clock and words of wisdom from Mrs Cosmopilite, Lu-Tze’s former landlady. The book’s cover shows Mr John Not-A-Vampire-At-All Smith, drinking a beverage that is not blood, and the book gives a welcome to new members of the Guild from him. Thirdly we have the Reformed Vampyre Club from the 2003 Diary. (Warning – this is not part of the book for anyone who suffers with coulrophobia!) There’s a guided tour of the Guild’s headquarters, ‘The House of Mirth’, as well as a history of the Guild and such details as a Guild school curriculum and the Guild rules to be followed outside the Guild walls. The second section shows us The Fool’s Guild of the 2001 Diary, with the ‘not-scary-at-all’ visage of Dr Whiteface looming throughout. It includes information on the role of the Watch, a History of the City Watch examples of Arrest Reports and Complaints, memos, laws, crime codes, lists of the equipment issued to the Watch and members and regular suspects of the Watch. One of Terry’s set of most enduring characters, I suspect that it will be this that most fans will buy the book for. The first part is from the 1999 Diary, featuring Captain Vimes and the Watch. (It was a bit of a surprise to me in that I didn’t know that there was a Volume I.) The four sets of illustrations are in published chronological order, although not in series sequence. This ‘Discworld Anthology’ combines four editions of the now-quite-rare Discworld Diaries into one volume, Volume II of the anthologies. ![]() Since Terry’s demise they have continued to be published by The Discworld Emporium, but are still going strong today. Co-written by Pratchett with Stephen Briggs, they not only offered Discworld enthusiasts a means of counting the days through the year until the next novel was published, but also gave new information about Discworld that was not detailed in the novels, often written by or written with the supervision and guidance of Terry himself.įilled with prose about the background and history of the societies and people of the Discworld universe that fans would appreciate, and copiously illustrated by Paul Kidby, fans would buy them and keep them as addendums to the novels Terry was writing. The Discworld Diaries have been a Discworld staple (and a very popular seller) since 1998. And for the Discworld fan, this is their present.īackground first. With this in mind, and with Christmas approaching, it may not be too much of a surprise to see the appearance of old material repackaged into what I call “coffee-table” books – those large tomes on glossy paper filled with the sort of thing that would go nicely as a Yuletide gift for the fan. Despite this, every year the number of fans seems to grow. To be fair, as the realm of the Discworld extends to over 40 novels, there’s a mine of material out there, even if it is said that anything new from Terry will not happen – there’s no collection of unpublished stories, essays or anything else out there waiting to appear, as I understand it. Are you a fan of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld? Or, indeed, are you a fairly new fan of Discworld?ĭespite the author’s death in 2015, it seems that in 2020 the appetite for ‘Pratchett stuff’ remains undiminished, especially in Britain.
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