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Terry Pratchett was right ! by Pop69 · 2011-06-01 04:37 · Score: 1 · on Modeling Security Software To Mimic Ant Behavior

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Original Article by bjorniac · 2010-09-21 02:21 · Score: 5, Informative · on Terry Pratchett's Self-Made Meteorite Sword

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Off course not by Errol+backfiring · 2010-07-15 02:50 · Score: 1 · on Droid X Self-Destructs If You Try To Mod

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Re:Congratulations by poena.dare · 2008-12-30 21:22 · Score: 5, Informative · on Terry Pratchett Knighted

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Folks,
There are times when the phrase "Absolutely, totally, gobsmackingly, mindbogglingly amazed" just doesn't cover it, but I find that in the Queen's New Year Honours list I am now a Knight, for services to literature. This means that fans, while not calling me Sir, must now refrain from throwing things. Regrettably, no sword is included in the box :)
What more can a modest Knight say?
Happy New Year, which on Discworld is the Year of the Pensive Hare.
PS - We have had about twenty film crews through the office today and so you should be able to catch some footage on one channel or another.

Discworld Science by gmuslera · 2004-12-17 04:54 · Score: 1 · on Astronaut: 'Single-Planet Species Don't Last'

That is the conclusion of The Science of Discworld, during earth history species evolved, grow sophisticated, succeded as species, just to be wiped for an extintion level event, and that happened a lot of times. With the complexities of our actual civilization, maybe just an ice age could be enough to destroy civilization as we know it, or even end with the human race (just the cold alone maybe will not do it, but other factors could join there too).

A lot of years ago i read Asimov's A Choice of Catastrophes that have a list of events that could end with humanity or at least actual civilization. Maybe some things there could be a bit dated now, but was a good reading back then.

Not sure about how soon some of this could happen, but is sure that eventually will happen something that make the life here as it is now will not be possible (at the very least, the death of the sun, even very far in time, is something sure that will happen). Having "backups" of the human race/civilization/etc out there looks right.

Go write 1000 times on the blackboard... by m2 · 2001-05-25 06:51 · Score: 1 · on Thief of Time

I SHOULD WARN READERS WHEN I AM ABOUT TO SPOIL A BOOK

And no, I'm not going to make it worse by pointing out where you spoiled it, but you spoiled it big time.

And it's not the death of mice, it's the Death of Rats. Does this look like "mice" to you? SQUEAK!

And while on the s ubject of Death's sidekicks, Quoth has to be mentioned. "Croak" (read the book and you'll understand why the quotes).

It should be mentioned that this Carrot fellow Hemos mentions is part of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, which has been masterfully portraied in Guards! Guards! and Men at Arms, as well as the more recent The Fifth Elephant.

About Prachett's books it has to be said that there are two publishing companies printing the hardcovers, one at each side of the pond. One is Doubleday (Transworld Publishers) and the other is Harper Prism. One of them sucks and the other is pure joy. It's a matte r of lenghtly discussions which one is which. Another source of discordance is Paul Kidby vs Josh Kirby as the cover art artist.

And the for dessert, pay a visit to L-space.