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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100385538308

ISBN-139780385538305

eBay Product ID (ePID)178724589

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Book TitleSlip of the Keyboard : Collected Nonfiction

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicScience Fiction & Fantasy, Personal Memoirs, Form / Essays, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year2014

GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Humor, Literary Collections

AuthorTerry Pratchett

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight21 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2014-011949

ReviewsPraise for Terry Pratchett "One of the world's most delightful writers." --Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing "Some writers simply possess the Gift. No matter what they bring out . . . it's sure to be compulsively readable. That's certainly the case with Terry Pratchett." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World "The great Terry Pratchett, whose wit is metaphysical, who creates an energetic and lively secondary world, who has a multifarious genius for strong parody . . . who deals with death with startling originality. He writes amazing sentences." --A. S. Byatt, The New York Times "Clever . . . insightful. . . . [Pratchett's] wry wit is as good as gold." --Lylah M. Alphonse, The Boston Globe "One of the most consistently funny writers around; a master of the stealth simile, the time-delay pun, and the deflationary three-part list." --Ben Aaronovitch, The Guardian (London) "What Pratchett does is not just great, but unparalleled. In five hundred years, it won't be the Nobel laureates who are being studied. It's going to be this guy." --Brandon Sanderson, Tor.com, Praise for Terry Pratchett "One of the world's most delightful writers." --Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing "Some writers simply possess the Gift. No matter what they bring out . . . it's sure to be compulsively readable. That's certainly the case with Terry Pratchett." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World "The great Terry Pratchett, whose wit is metaphysical, who creates an energetic and lively secondary world, who has a multifarious genius for strong parody . . . who deals with death with startling originality. He writes amazing sentences." --A. S. Byatt, The New York Times "Clever . . . insightful. . . . [Pratchett's] wry wit is as good as gold." --Lylah M. Alphonse, The Boston Globe "One of the most consistently funny writers around; a master of the stealth simile, the time-delay pun, and the deflationary three-part list." --Ben Aaronovitch, The Guardian (London) "What Pratchett does is not just great, but unparalleled. In five hundred years, it won't be the Nobel laureates who are being studied. It's going to be this guy." --Brandon Sanderson, Tor.com , Praise for Terry Pratchett "One of the world's most delightful writers." --Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing "Some writers simply possess the Gift. No matter what they bring out . . . it's sure to be compulsively readable. That's certainly the case with Terry Pratchett." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World "The great Terry Pratchett, whose wit is metaphysical, who creates an energetic and lively secondary world, who has a multifarious genius for strong parody . . . who deals with death with startling originality. He writes amazing sentences." --A. S. Byatt, The New York Times "Clever . . . insightful. . . . [Pratchett's] wry wit is as good as gold." --Lylah M. Alphonse, The Boston Globe "One of the most consistently funny writers around; a master of the stealth simile, the time-delay pun, and the deflationary three-part list." --Ben Aaronovitch, The Guardian (London) "What Pratchett does is not just great, but unparalleled. In five hundred years, it won't be the Nobel laureates who are being studied. It's going to be this guy." --Brandon Sanderson, Tor.com

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingA

Dewey Decimal824/.914

Table Of ContentForeword by Neil Gaiman A Scribbling Intruder Thought Progress (1989) Palmtop (1993) The Choice Word (2000) How to Be a Professional Boxer (2005) Brewer's Boy (1999) Paperback Writer (2003) Advice to Booksellers (1999) No Worries (1998) Conventional Wisdom (2011) Straight from the Heart, via the Groin (2004) Discworld Turns 21 (2004) Kevins (1993) Wyrd Ideas (1999) Notes from a Successful Fantasy Author: Keep It Real (2007) Whose Fantasy Are You? (1991) Why Gandalf Never Married (1985) Roots of Fantasy (1989) Elves Were Bastards (1992) Let There Be Dragons (1993) Magic Kingdoms (1999) Cult Classic (2001) Neil Gaiman: Amazing Master Conjuror (2002) 2001 Carnegie Medal Award Speech (2002) Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Speech for Nation (2009) Watching Nation (2009) Doctor Who? (2001) A Word About Hats (2001) A Twit and a Dreamer The Big Store (2002) Roundhead Wood, Forty Green (1996) A Star Pupil (2011) On Granny Pratchett (2004) Tales of Wonder and of Porn (2004) Letter to Vector (1963) Writer's Choice (2004) Introduction to Roy Lewis's The Evolution Man (1989) The King and I, or How the Bottom Has Dropped Out of the Wise Man Business (1970) Honey, These Bees Had a Heart of Gold (1976) That Sounds Fungi, It Must Be the Dawn Chorus (1976) Introduction to The Leaky Establishment by David Langford (2001) The Meaning of My Christmas (1997) Alien Christmas (1987) 2001 : The Vision and the Reality (2000) The God Moment (2008) A Genuine Absent-minded Professor (2010) Saturdays (2011) Days of Rage On Excellence in Schools. Education: What It Means to You (1997) The Orangutans Are Dying (2000) The NHS Is Seriously Injured (2008) I'm Slipping Away a Bit at a Time . . . and All I Can Do Is Watch It Happen (2008) Taxworld (2009) Point Me to Heaven When the Final Chapter Comes (2009) The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Shaking Hands with Death (2010) At Last We Have Real Compassion in Assisted-Dying Guidelines (2010) Assisted Dying: It's Time the Government Gave Us the Right to End Our Lives (2011) Death Knocked and We Let Him In (2011) A Week in the Death of Terry Pratchett (2011) And Finally . . . Terry Pratchett's Wild Unattached Footnotes to Life (1990)

SynopsisTerry Pratchett has won the hearts and minds of readers around the globe with his bestselling Discworld series of novels. But what his many fans may not realize is that he has been writing nonfiction throughout his career. Some of it relates to Discworld, of course, but much of it--especially in recent years--is part of his outspoken campaigns for causes such as Alzheimer's research and animal rights. A Slip of the Keyboard is the first collection of Pratchett's nonfiction work, and it brings together the finest examples of his extraordinary wit and his persuasive prose. Whether in short opinion pieces (on death and taxes), or in long essays, speeches, and interviews (covering a range of topics from mushrooms to orangutans), this collection is a fascinating look inside an extraordinary writer's mind. It includes his remarks at science-fiction and fantasy conventions, his thoughts on the importance of banana daiquiris on book tours, his observations on fan mail, and his belief that an author is obligated to sign anything a fan puts in front of him (especially if it is very sharp). He also writes about the books that shaped his love of language and legends, not to mention his entrance into science-fiction fandom when he attended his first sci-fi convention as a teenager. Filled with all the humor and humanity that have made his novels so enduringly popular, this collection brings Pratchett out from behind the scenes of Discworld to speak for himself--man and boy, bibliophile and computer geek; a champion of hats, orangutans, and Dignity in Dying. With a foreword by Pratchett's close friend and Good Omens coauthor Neil Gaiman to lead off, A Slip of the Keyboard is a must-have for any Pratchett fan.

LC Classification NumberPR6066.R34S58 2014