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Terry Pratchett's published his first story when he was only 13 years old. "The Hades Business" originally appeared in a school magazine and, two years later, it was re-published in Science Fantasy magazine, making him a professional writer at the age of 15. His first novel, THE CARPET PEOPLE, was published in 1971 and followed the adventures of a society of microscopic people living in, well, a carpet. Essentially, a children's novel in the vein of John Peterson's THE LITTLES (who, incidentally more... 
 

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04/28/1948 England, Great Britain, United Kingdom, British Isles, Western Europe,


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Tegan wrote a review on Mort
Death has an apprentice. Well everyone retires some day. Unfortunately for Death, his apprentice has some fairly pie-in-the-sky ideas about what is fair in life and death, and this causes some considerable trouble with reality. This is the first novel in which we meet Death, as in THE Death. And he's a bit of a top bloke really. I loved this novel, as I love all the Discworld nevels in which Death is central, and if you like to see stereotypes questioned, you will probably like this too.


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Louise: Thank you so much for hours of intelligent entertainment, Sir Pratchett.
Anita: Thank You.
Mark: Mr Pratchett, I'd like to thank you for the many hours of pleasure my family and I have derived from reading your books.
Patrick: every book from the frist to the last is a joy to read
Peter: Dear Mr. Pratchett, Thank you so much for the delightful wit, the philosophy,quantum physics and years of endless pleasure you have been giving me for ten years now.Death,now, I regard as the Last Friend who will lead me where ever I must go. not that I have any plans in short notice to meet him. thank you and greetings from Belgium,Peter
Bhanu: i just read my first pratchett...color of magic... i think i'll have fun for the rest of my life in discworld!!!
Laura: Better than prozac
John-paul: I was introduced to the discworld books some years ago and im now addicted to them, the comedy and the simularities to real life places and situations are briliant,im sorry to hear terry has been diagnosed with early stages alzeimers and wish him well and look forward to future books.
Andrew: the guy is totally awesome
John: His books are to discworld what the wardrobe was to narnia :)


 
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