A Blink of the Screen: Collected Short Fiction
- Kategoria:
- fantasy, science fiction
- Wydawnictwo:
- Doubleday
- Data wydania:
- 2012-10-11
- Data 1. wydania:
- 2012-10-11
- Liczba stron:
- 320
- Czas czytania
- 5 godz. 20 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 9780385618984
In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world’s best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short form fiction collected into one volume. A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett’s long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press,; to the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on again to the dizzy mastery of the phenomenally successful Discworld series.
Here are characters both familiar and yet to be discovered; abandoned worlds and others still expanding; adventure, chickens, death, disco and, actually, some quite disturbing ideas about Christmas,all of it shot through with his inimitable brand of humour.
With an introduction by Booker Prize-winning author A.S. Byatt, illustrations by the late Josh Kirby and drawings by the author himself, this is a book to treasure.