Several years ago now, I recorded a couple of lines to go into Dave Greenslade's From the Discworld album.
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The weirdness factor is compounded when, from time to time, I get a small package from Colin Smythe (Terry's and my agent) containing translations of some of the above - the cookbook in German, the Companion in French, a Diary in Bulgarian or a map of Ankh-Morpork in Polish. It is weird, when friends return from foreign travels to tell me they've seen the maps in a bookstore in Munich, the Companion at a French airport or, much more surprisingly, one of my plays in a bookshop in Zimbabwe. Since then, my own little 'backlist' has grown to include three maps, dramatisations of eleven of Terry's books - Wyrd Sisters, Mort, Guards! Guards!, Men at Arms, Maskerade, Carpe Jugulum, The Fifth Elephant, The Truth, Interesting Times, Johnny & the Dead and The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - six Diaries, a cookbook and a graphic novel. The arguments and constant reference-seeking involved in that project led me to wonder out loud if it wasn't time for a guide to Discworld.
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And that led to The Streets of Ankh-Morpork, published in 1993, possibly the first map ever to get into the bestseller lists. I said that in this world they got put in wherever History demanded them and I was sure the city was mappable. He doubted it - he said he'd just put buildings and streets in wherever the plot required them. One day, when I was working on only my second Discworld play, I mentioned to Terry Pratchett that I was convinced from my reading that AnkhMorpork had a distinct shape. Along the way, they've raised over £40,000 for the Orangutan Foundation from their royalties. Nine of the dramatisations have now been published (as well as two other Pratchett plays from Oxford University Press) and have been staged by amateur drama clubs all over the world - Australia to Zimbabwe, Indonesia to Bermuda, Finland to France, South Africa to the USA. Would he like it? Would he let us do any more? Wyrd Sisters went so well that we went on to stage a further eleven Discworld books (with more in the planning). I can still remember how worried we were when the author (Mr Terry Pratchett) actually telephoned me - in person - to say that he wanted to come and see our little production. When I first wrote to Terry back in 1990 to ask permission to dramatise Wyrd Sisters, I little realised that in choosing that book, I had made a really BIG life choice. We were the first people - anywhere in the world - to dramatise the works of Terry Pratchett. I came across Discworld while looking for books to dramatise for my amateur drama club. I hadn't meant to be here, but I'm jolly glad that I am.
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As many of you know, I fell into Discworld backwards, as if I'd been leaning on a rickety old door in a walled garden and I'd suddenly found myself in a magical kingdom full of snow, fauns and benevolent lions. I still am.)' Well - OK - nothing actually has changed there. My original introduction to the first Discworld Companion said: 'Six years ago I was a civil servant who dabbled in amateur dramatics. When I look back over the years since I last revised the introduction to the Companion, I am staggered at how much has happened.
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^V^iJ^fe}^ * Patari dew's Polo-C-e H7 Sfci The Terry Pratchett Interview: Discworld Quo Vadis? First published in Great Britain in 1994 by Victor Gollancz Ltd An imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Orion House, 5 Upper St Martin's Lane, London WC2H 9EA This revised and updated edition first published in Great Britain in 2003 by Victor Gollancz Ltd This edition published in Great Britain in 2004 A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 5 4 Typeset at The Spartan Press Ltd, Lymington, Hants Printed in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, St Ives pic Discworld t' is a trademark registered by Terry Pratchett. The Fully Revised and\ Book to all things DiscworldianĭISCWORLD COMPANION TERRY PRATCHETT & STEPHEN BRIGGSĬopyright © Terry and Lyn Pratchett and Stephen Briggs 2003, illustrations by Stephen Briggs Alt rights reserved The right of Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.