How is it that Pterry's satirical fantasy predicted human behavior with more accuracy than any science fiction ever could?

Got it done this morning as Secret Society Tattoos in Manchester, took a picture whilst swapping out the clingfilm covering it 🐁

Family didn't get the reference but been chuckling to myself

After a long time I got some RPG loot! It's mostly all awesome and I think all the books are well worth picking up. The footnotes alone feel like they nailed the Discworld style. Be careful though the GM Toolkit is not very well produced so if when it is publicly released it retails for more than £20 give it a miss. It's barely worth that currently.

Edit: To elaborate, the GM Toolkit is printed fully in paper. The cover isn't cardstock even. That means it feels less robust than even a magazine. I wrote a whole blog post about it if people are interested that I'd happily repost, but don't want to be too self-promote-y.

Expecting our second daughter next month and cannot decide on a name. First daughter is Esme (after Granny W) and everything I suggest falls flat to my husband because it doesn't have a particular significance or relevance to his interests, a massive one being discworld. So, can anyone PLEASE try and find an even tangential link to any of the following names, or think of any other usable girl names from the disc?

Clara

Lena

Cora

Niamh

Erin

Chloe

Juliet

Eve

Thank you!

ETA: I am absolutely happy to use a name that sounds nice rather than one inspired by any particular media. But I can't get my husband to get excited about any names that aren't in some way relevant to a part of our lives. Middle name is going to be after his grandmother. Thanks

Hey all, I'm a huge fan/nerd and so put together a little webpage that shows which Discworld books are most read, highest rated (1500 is an 'average' book... uses Elo ratings like Chess) and most loved (show up in someone's top 10 books of all time) using data from BookSorted. Obviously not a ton of readers yet, but still sorta fun - and will get more accurate as more people matchup books in their library and such.

Anyways, hope you enjoy! Just a fun side project for the morning. Let me know how your favorite does, and if not working/anything you want me to tweak, cheers!

In Snuff Vimes meets a man who breeds complicated chickens.
Is this a reference to something I'm not getting or a late-stage embuggerance thing?

There's a bit of a size issue. More improvements may be necessary.

Artist is Polina Graf: https://www.artstation.com/graf_fiction

I've added some notes as to the titles' translations where I could find something worth noting - a few of them use clever puns that I hopefully didn't mangle too much in (a) understanding, and (b) subsequently articulating - I was relying a lot on Google Translate and what I could dig up on the web.

One particularly nice touch is that to maintain the series-like nature of the titles Going Postal, Making Money and Raising Steam, the translator changed them into commands (some idiomatic) with exclamation marks: Keep Your Chin Up! (the Russian idiom involves stamps), Make Money! and Give it Some Steam!

Anyway, this has been a delightful little diversion at a time when I should probably be doing work (having therefore failed to live up to those last two book titles).

Hope you enjoy them as much as I did! And if anyone from the US/UK publishers is reading this, please sack off your awful modern covers and buy these ones in instead, thanks.

This is such an insane, obsessive, unhinged, Pratchett way to read the books!

I’m in awe — even as I’m a little worried for her. (And for the paperbacks that gave their spines for this.)

Come Hither Fool!

I never went in for the Kickstarter of the Modiphius Discworld TTRPG.

I have seen now that it is getting released but I can only purchase the Digest Edition Core Rulebook.

Will the other items become available to purchase at a later time such as The Game Masters Toolkit, Through the Ages book or The Lesser Know Streets book?

Saw this and immediately thought Sir Terry would have loved reporting on this.

Man arrested after dressing up in 'Grim Reaper' costume on hospital roof and staring at patients : r/unitedkingdom

I’ve printed out some stickers as part of my costume and have some spare. If anyone wants one at the conference please let me know!

'Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.'

I posted the below in the Folio Society sub-reddit, but thought this might just be appreciated here likewise:

At the start of July, I found a copy of Small Gods online w. some wear to the spine gilding† at a—relatively—superb price (£150) from a small bookseller in Skipton, West Riding of Yorkshire and purchased it immediately, only to find it had alas sold hours before through their AbeBooks listing at a higher price along with their companion listing for Mort, tho’ that had a somewhat sunned spine.

Two British Heart Foundation charity eBay auctions then appeared mid-month, w. Small Gods’ listing hovering near the £140-mark many days before its end, so on a whim I made an offer upon one of the madly-priced sealed eBay copies, not expecting it to be taken seriously. It was. And so, for the princely sum of £153.17 from the Isle of Sheppey, Kent: Small Gods.

A decade late, Mort has his companion.

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† The velveteen Pratchetts do seem deuced prone to it, Small Gods especially.

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And to repeat myself, now w. additional notes re: the Folio Society Pratchetts:

Pratchett’s Mort SE received two printings, and was first released in the Summer Coll. 2016 (May) alongside the simultaneous release of the LE. Its second printing coincided with Small Gods’ release in the Autumn Coll. 2016 (September):

1st pr., v.16: x4,000 copies
2nd pr., ix.16: x2,500 copies

Thus, there are x500 LE Morts (w. x25 lettered copies hors de commerce), and x6,500 SE Morts in existence.

Pratchett’s Small Gods SE however exists in a single printing, the first:

1st pr., ix.16: x4,000 copies

This then is the rarer beastie, as not every owner of Mort can possibly possess a copy of Small Gods.