Fantasy - Comic 07
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Neil Gaiman
Good Omens
Published October 2007 by Gollancz at £9.99
ISBN: 0575080485
With Terry Pratchett
The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
There is a hint of Armageddon in the air. According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded, thankfully, in 1655, before she blew up her entire village and all its inhabitants, who had gathered to watch her burn), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. So the Armies of Good and Evil are massing, the four Bikers of the Apocalypse are revving up their mighty hogs and hitting the road, and the world's last two remaining witchfinders are getting ready to Fight the Good Fight. Atlantis is rising. Frogs are falling. Tempers are flaring, and everything appears to be going to Divine Plan.
Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon are not particularly looking forward to the coming Rapture. They've lived amongst Humanity for millennia, and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle. So if Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from happening, they've got to find and kill the AntiChrist (which is a shame, really, as he's a nice kid). There's just one glitch: someone seems to have misplaced him.
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's brilliantly dark and funny take on mankind's final judgment is back, in a new hardcover edition which includes an introduction by the authors, comments by each about the other, and answers to some still-burning questions about their wildly popular collaborative effort that the devout and the damned alike will surely cherish until the end of all things.
About The Author
During the course of a fifteen-year writing career, Neil Gaiman has been one of the top writers in modern comics and a best-selling novelist. As creator/writer of the DC Comics fantasy series The Sandman, he won every major award in the field and, in addition won the 1991 World Fantasy Award for best short story (making The Sandman #19 the first comic ever to win a literary award). His short story collection Angels and Visitations won the 1994 international Horror Critics' Guild Award as Best Collection. Equally acclaimed have been his novels Good Omens co-written with Terry Pratchett), Stardust and Neverwhere, an adaptation of Gaiman's hit BBC television series. Recently Gaiman released another collection of short stories, Smoke & Mirrors, and wrote the English language screenplay for the record-breaking Japanese film Princess Mononoke.
Of his shorter comics works, he is proudest of Mr Punch. He is writing a new novel at present. It's called American Gods.
Born in 1960 in Portchester, England, Neil Gaiman has exactly three children, approximately seven cats, and a house that wants to be Gormenghast when it grows up. He tends to need a haircut. Currently he needs a shave as well.
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Terry Pratchett
Lu-Tse's Yearbook Of Enlightenment: Discworld Diary 2008
Published August 2007 by Gollancz at £12.99
ISBN: 0575077247
The annual treat for all Pratchett fans: the fully-functioning Discworld Diary, written by the master himself.
Lu-Tze is a senior History Monk, also known as Sweeper. Although thought to be 800 years old, there are some who claim he is older yet ...5,200 years older, in fact, because for the History Monks, time is a resource to manipulate, and they do ...Lu-Tze, a bald, yellow-toothed little man with a wispy beard, has a faintly amiable grin, as if constantly waiting for something amusing to happen, and a handy epithet for every occasion. In his life, Lu-Tze has done everything, and his past deeds are legend amongst the History Monks. He is a follower of The Way of Mrs Marietta Cosmopilite. He also grows Bonsai mountains. LU-TZE'S YEARBOOK OF ENLIGHTMENT (including The Way of Mrs Cosmopilite) is the ideal companion for those seeking truth and harmony and, well, the meaning to life - though he doesn't guarantee it will be the right meaning …
About The Author
Terry Pratchett
is Britain's bestselling living novelist and lives behind a (very upmarket) keyboard in Wiltshire, where he answers letters in a desperate attempt to find time to write. He used to grow carnivorous plants, but now they've taken over the greenhouse and he avoids going in.
He says he doesn't want to get a life after all, because it feels like he's already trying to lead three. He is having a new conservatory built for the carnivorous plants, because they deserve it.
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Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2008
Published September 2007 by Gollancz at £12.99
ISBN: 0575080442
The annual visual treat for all discworld fans: a lavish full-colour wall calendar with all your favourite characters!
The annual full-colour "Discworld Calendar" features scenes from the Discworld novels by award-winning artists. This year's fantastic illustrators include Pratchett favourites Paul Kidby (the "Discworld Diaries", "The Last Hero", "The Art Of Discworld" and numerous book covers), David Wyatt ("Discworld Stamps", book covers) and Stephen Player ("The Illustrated Wee Free Men", conceptual art for Sky One's blockbuster two-parter "The Hogfather"). Other superstars in the fantasy art firmament featured in the 2008 calendar are Les Edwards, Edward Miller, Jackie Morris, Sandy Nightingale, Jon Sullivan, David Frankland, Mel Grant and Dominic Harman.
About The Author
Terry Pratchett
is Britain's bestselling living novelist and lives behind a (very upmarket) keyboard in Wiltshire, where he answers letters in a desperate attempt to find time to write. He used to grow carnivorous plants, but now they've taken over the greenhouse and he avoids going in.
He says he doesn't want to get a life after all, because it feels like he's already trying to lead three. He is having a new conservatory built for the carnivorous plants, because they deserve it.
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Terry Pratchett
Making Money
Published September 2007 by Doubleday at £18.99
ISBN: 0385611013
A Discworld Novel
It’s an offer you can’t refuse
Who would not wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork’s Royal Mint and the bank next door?
It’s a job for life. But, as former conman Moist von Lipwig is learning, life is not necessarily for long.
The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There’s something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), and it turns out that the Royal Mint runs at a loss. A three-hundred-year-old wizard is after his girlfriend, he’s about to b exposed as a fraud, but the Assassins’ Guild might get him first. In fact, a lot of people want him dead.
Oh. And every day he has to take the Chairman walkies.
Everywhere he looks he’s making enemies.
What he should be doing is
Making Money!
About The Author
Terry Pratchett
is Britain's bestselling living novelist and lives behind a (very upmarket) keyboard in Wiltshire, where he answers letters in a desperate attempt to find time to write. He used to grow carnivorous plants, but now they've taken over the greenhouse and he avoids going in.
He says he doesn't want to get a life after all, because it feels like he's already trying to lead three. He is having a new conservatory built for the carnivorous plants, because they deserve it.
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Terry Pratchett
The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld
Published September 2007 by Doubleday at £14.99
ISBN: 0385611773
Famous Quotations from the famous
Discworld Universe
As filtered somewhat erratically through the mind of the
Distinguished Scholar & Scribe
T. Pratchett Esq.
Compiled by Stephen Briggs
About The Author
Terry Pratchett
is Britain's bestselling living novelist and lives behind a (very upmarket) keyboard in Wiltshire, where he answers letters in a desperate attempt to find time to write. He used to grow carnivorous plants, but now they've taken over the greenhouse and he avoids going in.
He says he doesn't want to get a life after all, because it feels like he's already trying to lead three. He is having a new conservatory built for the carnivorous plants, because they deserve it.
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Terry Pratchett
Good Omens
Published October 2007 by Gollancz at £9.99
ISBN: 0575080485
With Neil Gaiman
The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
There is a hint of Armageddon in the air. According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded, thankfully, in 1655, before she blew up her entire village and all its inhabitants, who had gathered to watch her burn), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. So the Armies of Good and Evil are massing, the four Bikers of the Apocalypse are revving up their mighty hogs and hitting the road, and the world's last two remaining witchfinders are getting ready to Fight the Good Fight. Atlantis is rising. Frogs are falling. Tempers are flaring, and everything appears to be going to Divine Plan.
Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon are not particularly looking forward to the coming Rapture. They've lived amongst Humanity for millennia, and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle. So if Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from happening, they've got to find and kill the AntiChrist (which is a shame, really, as he's a nice kid). There's just one glitch: someone seems to have misplaced him.
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's brilliantly dark and funny take on mankind's final judgment is back, in a new hardcover edition which includes an introduction by the authors, comments by each about the other, and answers to some still-burning questions about their wildly popular collaborative effort that the devout and the damned alike will surely cherish until the end of all things.
About The Author
Terry Pratchett
is Britain's bestselling living novelist and lives behind a (very upmarket) keyboard in Wiltshire, where he answers letters in a desperate attempt to find time to write. He used to grow carnivorous plants, but now they've taken over the greenhouse and he avoids going in.
He says he doesn't want to get a life after all, because it feels like he's already trying to lead three. He is having a new conservatory built for the carnivorous plants, because they deserve it.
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