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Terry Pratchett is the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he is the author of over fifty bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he is the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. Worldwide sales of his books now stand at over 75 million, and they have been translated into thirty-seven languages.
Other writers are mining the rich seam of comic fantasy that Pratchett first unearthed, but what keeps Pratchett on top is quite literally the way he tells them. The Times The Truth is an unmitigated delight and very, very funny The pace is compelling but he never lets his tale descend into simple farce. The Times [Discworld] has the energy of The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland [Terry Pratchett] has an intelligent wit and a truly original grim and comic grasp of the nature of things. A.S. Byatt, Sunday Times
