Unseen Academicals - Available 10/06/09

Discworld lives on in Unseen Academicals, the latest novel from Terry Pratchett. Delivering the trademark insight and humor readers the world over have come to expect from "the purely funniest English writer since Wodehouse" (Washington Post Book World), Unseen Academicals focuses on the wizards at Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University, who are reknowned for many things-sagacity, magic, and their love of teatime-as they attempt to conquer athletics.

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About Terry Pratchett

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 "for services to literature" in 1998, and has received four honorary doctorates from the Universities of Warwick, Portsmouth, Bath, and Bristol. His acclaimed novels have sold more than 45 million copies (give or take a few) and have been translated into 33 languages.

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The first ever North American Discworld Convention was held September 4 - 7, 2009, in Tempe, Arizona with Terry Pratchett and one thousand Discworld fans in attentendence!

Congrats again to the organizers at nadwcon.org!

As many of you know, Terry Pratchett has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's Disease. Click here to read the speech Terry made to the Alzheimer's Research Trust Conference in the UK earlier this year, where he donated $1 million to aid Alzheimer's research. See the video of the speech here.

If you are interested in helping out, The Alzheimer's Research Trust UK accepts overseas donations here. Or If you would like to make a tax-free donation to the Alzheimer's Association (of America) click here.

Congratulations to Terry on his knighthood!
Click here to see Terry's reaction to being knighted.

Click here to watch a recent interview with the BBC!

A Note From Terry

Welcome to the Discworld. It started out as a parody of all the fantasy that was around in the big boom of the early '80s, then turned into a satire on just about everything, and even I don't know what it is now. I do know that in that time there's been at least four people promoted as "new Terry Pratchetts" so for all I know I may not even still be me.

And welcome to this web page that those nice people at HarperCollins, at great expense, wear and tear on keyboards, etc., have produced. Wow! There may even be bits that flash on and off! At the very least, you should thank them by buying their books!

On Discworld semaphore communication is still the fastest thing around (if you're not a wizard) and that makes the modems run very slowly.

And now . . . have fun . . .