June 2007

Quote: “[T]here were no more funny questions …

13 June 2007 (21:11) Comment!

“[T]here were no more funny questions. No one wanted to risk getting answers.”

-Interesting Times (Terry Pratchett)

Discworld Diary v. Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather: The British Fantasy Awards

12 June 2007 (17:23) Comment!

The British Fantasy Society has announced the nominees for its British Fantasy Awards 2007, and among the nominees are the Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook Discworld Diary 2007 (Pratchett, Briggs, Kidby) and Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather: The Illustrated Screenplay (Pratchett, Jean), both in the Best Non Fiction Category.

The awards are given to voters’ choice literature and artists first published in 2006. To vote, however, one must be a member of the British Fantasy Society, and voting concludes August 1.

Quote: “[Y]es, I am but a small …

11 June 2007 (17:21) Comment!

“[Y]es, I am but a small, green, simple object–but I dream about forests.”

-The tiny soundless voice in acorns, Interesting Times (Terry Pratchett)

Wintersmith: 2007 Mythopeic Award finalist

10 June 2007 (17:18) Comment!

The Mythopeic Society has released the list of finalists for the 2007 Mythopeic Awards. Wintersmith (third in the Tiffany Aching series) has a place on the Mythopeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature finalist list, along with Diana Wynne Jones’s The Pinhoe Egg and others. According to the site, the Children’s Literature award is given to books for younger readers “in the tradition of The Hobbit or The Chronicles of Narnia.” The winners this year will be announced during MythCon XXXVIII (Aug. 3-6, 2007, in Berkeley, California). Good luck to Wintersmith in the final selection process!

Help Terry Pratchett attain knighthood

9 June 2007 (17:16) Comment!

This is a reminder to all British adult citizens to support the e-petition to award Terry Pratchett knighthood for services to literature.  As of posting, the petition has a whopping 2, 314 signatures.  The petition deadline is June 11, so fans have only a couple of days left to show their support!

Terry Pratchett visits Russia!

8 June 2007 (17:14) Comment!

Terry Pratchett will participate in a reading of his works tomorrow, June 9, at the Central house of artists, in Moscow, as part of the second Moscow International Book Fair. This is Russian fans’ last official chance to see Terry Pratchett on this tour, as he has already stopped at several St. Petersburg and Moscow bookshops.

Quote: “[The Archchancellor’s] policy …

7 June 2007 (17:12) Comment!

“[The Archchancellor’s] policy was to find one person and make their life difficult until everything happened theway he wanted it to.*

*A policy adopted by almost all managers and several notable gods.”

-Interesting Times (Terry Pratchett)

Guards! Guards! broadcast on BBC7

6 June 2007 (17:11) Comment!

Following the 4-part broadcast of Wyrd Sisters, BBC7 is again broadcasting a Pratchett audio adaptation, this time of Guards! Guards!. The first part was broadcast at 6 p.m. (GMT) on Friday, and broadcasts have continued on Monday and Tuesday at the same time. If you missed the broadcast, use BBC7s “Listen again” program (navigate to the day of broadcast near the top, and scroll down to Evening, 18:00), which will have audio files of each segment available for about a week after the broadcast.

Quote: “[E]ducation at the University mostly worked …

5 June 2007 (17:09) Comment!

“[E]ducation at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.”

-Interesting Times (Terry Pratchett)

Quote: “Many things went on at Unseen University …

4 June 2007 (17:06) Comment!

“Many things went on at Unseen University and, regrettably, teaching had to be one of them.  The faculty had long ago confronted this fact and had perfected various devices for avoiding it.  But this was perfectly all right because, to be fair, so had the students.”

-Interesting Times (Terry Pratchett)

Quote: “The shark didn’t think much …

3 June 2007 (17:04) Comment!

“The shark didn’t think much.  Sharks don’t.  Their thought processes can largely be represented by ‘=.’  You see it = you eat it.”

-Interesting Times (Terry Pratchett)

Wyrd Sisters broadcast on BBC7

2 June 2007 (16:55) Comment!

BBC7 broadcast a 4-part radio version of Wyrd Sisters last Monday through Thursday at 6:00 p.m. (GMT). If you missed it, the site offers the audio files as part of the “listen again” program (First, navigate to the day of the broadcast you want, then scroll down to the evening broadcasts to 18:00-18:30). Last Monday’s broadcast will be available until Sunday (tomorrow), last Tuesday’s until next Monday, and so on.

Quote: “Around [the Circle Sea] …

1 June 2007 (16:49) Comment!

“Around [the Circle Sea] are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilized world, i.e. a world that can support historians[.]”

-Interesting Times (Terry Pratchett)