Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe.
Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. In 1987, he turned to writing full time.
There are over 40 books in the Discworld series, of which four are written for children. The first of these, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal.
A non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback - Harper Torch, 2006 - and trade paperback - Harper Paperbacks, 2006).
In 2008, Harper Children's published Terry's standalone non-Discworld YA novel, Nation. Terry published Snuff in October 2011.
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 (OBE) “for services to literature” in 1998, and has received honorary doctorates from the University of Warwick in 1999, the University of Portsmouth in 2001, the University of Bath in 2003, the University of Bristol in 2004, Buckinghamshire New University in 2008, the University of Dublin in 2008, Bradford University in 2009, the University of Winchester in 2009, and The Open University in 2013 for his contribution to Public Service.
In Dec. of 2007, Pratchett disclosed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. On 18 Feb, 2009, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
He was awarded the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award in 2010.
Sir Terry Pratchett passed away on 12th March 2015.
About Neil Gaiman
I make things up and write them down. Which takes us from comics (like SANDMAN) to novels (like ANANSI BOYS and AMERICAN GODS) to short stories (some are collected in SMOKE AND MIRRORS) and to occasionally movies (like Dave McKean's MIRRORMASK or the NEVERWHERE TV series, or my own short film A SHORT FILM ABOUT JOHN BOLTON).
In my spare time I read and sleep and eat and try to keep the blog at www.neilgaiman.com more or less up to date.
发表于2025-04-02
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读到半程,才注意到本书是两位作家合著的。 这就让我觉得更为惊讶。两个人的想法固然是更加完美的,却也难以契合在一起。从本书来看,尼尔和特里的想法,显然是发生了点化学反应。 正如后记里面提到,他们喜欢煲电话粥来分享自己写的一段段有趣的文字。 克鲁利和亚茨拉菲尔,一...
评分这实在是一部很适合改编成电影的书,幽默的对话,快速的情节推动,许多有趣的场景,我边看边在心中给它派case。天使肯定要是个英国演员,冤家成双对里的patrick有白长袍的那个劲,恶魔当然要美国人,嗯,小罗伯特唐尼完全可以(稍微肥了点,不过不构成问题);至于导演,绝对是...
评分One of the few books in my laugh that actually made laugh out loud. I can't read this book in public because people look at me strangely. 我读过很多书, 但是很少看过怎么搞笑的!我不敢在外面读这本因为很多人看到我一直在怪怪的笑!
评分67, look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, If you're going to go on about genetics, you might as well say the kid will grow up to be an angel. After all, his father was really big in Heaven in the old days. Saying he wi...
评分仿佛在看文字版的《极品基老伴》 克鲁利和亚茨拉菲尔这对CP,只要碰一起,准是在拌嘴。 这是他们日常秀恩爱的惯有模式。 但通常克鲁利总会甘拜下风,准确的说,是“很自觉”的甘拜下风。 这之后表现的各种小动作,似乎都在对另外一个人十分委屈地发泄着不满:“对对对,就你说...
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There is a distinct hint of Armageddon in the air. According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded, thankfully, in 1655, before she blew up her entire village and all its inhabitants, who had gathered to watch her burn), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, the Four Bikers of the Apocalypse are revving up their mighty hogs and hitting the road, and the world's last two remaining witch-finders are getting ready to fight the good fight, armed with awkwardly antiquated instructions and stick pins. Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. . . . Right. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. </p>
Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon -- each of whom has lived among Earth's mortals for many millennia and has grown rather fond of the lifestyle -- are not particularly looking forward to the coming Rapture. If Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from happening, they've got to find and kill the Antichrist (which is a shame, as he's a really nice kid). There's just one glitch: someone seems to have misplaced him. . . . </p>
First published in 1990, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's brilliantly dark and screamingly funny take on humankind's final judgment is back -- and just in time -- in a new hardcover edition (which includes an introduction by the authors, comments by each about the other, and answers to some still-burning questions about their wildly popular collaborative effort) that the devout and the damned alike will surely cherish until the end of all things. </p>
Terry在书最后的访谈里提到说Neil特别喜欢别人拿着那种被翻过很多次的、掉进水里的、并用偏黄色透明胶带仔细修补好的Good Omens请他签名 看到这里惊了一下 因为我的书也是被咖啡浸湿过 被雨淋过 掉进过水里的状态 他们两个真是有趣的人… 20190624更新:偶遇Neil并要到了签名 唯一的遗憾是当天没有带着已经被翻的很旧的书 冲进书店买了一本全新的让他签名 只好反复向他assure that I did really have my Good Omens fall into the fountain once
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评分好!很不错!两个人也能合作出很棒的文吧~
评分9/300 Those things about the Antichrist and his mates’ backyard adventures are really insanely boring, but enjoy as much as the same degree with the angel and the demon’s story, they are the best part.
评分Some parts of the story were extremely enjoyable. There were, however, simply too many other things in it that I couldn't care less about. I see certain readers have commented on Gaiman's written portions being too dark to their liking. I, on the other hand, found Pratchett's overly lighthearted nuances mildly irritating.
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