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A Blink of the Screen

Collected Short Fiction

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A Blink of the Screen

By: Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs
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A brilliant collection of short stories and short form fiction from the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, one of the world's best-loved authors.

A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett's long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press; to the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on again to the dizzy mastery of the Discworld series.

Here are characters both familiar and yet to be discovered; abandoned worlds and others still expanding; adventure, chickens, death, disco and, actually, some quite disturbing ideas about Christmas, all of it shot through with his inimitable brand of humour.

With an introduction by Booker Prize-winning author A.S. Byatt and drawings by the author himself, this is a book to treasure.

'Clever, neatly constructed and funny … Pratchett is one of the great comic writers and storytellers of our time' Guardian

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Clever, neatly constructed and funny…Pratchett is one of the great comic writers and storytellers of our time
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This is my favourite Terry Pratchett short stories this is a must have for those who are fans of his work.

Great read/ listen

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This book is so hard to rate because the stories are so varied in here. The Discworld stories are in the minority but it's still worth buying for those alone. There a relatively long story about the witches, a short but hilarious story involving the city watch and a Punch and Judy man, Cohen makes an appearance and the details about the types aliments exclusive to Discworld had me in stitches. I would have bought the book for these tales alone. Admittedly not all the stories are as of high a quality and of course being unconnected to universe readers know and love, are often harder to get into. However I really enjoyed the fist story The Hades Business and was intrigued by The Picture. My suggestion would be that you buy this for the over 3 hours of Discwold stories and anecdotes that you can easily find by skipping through (they are 3 hours 8 minutes from the end and the book actually tells you when you get to that section). However when you have read these, give the others a try, they are hit and miss depending on taste but still really worth giving a try.

A real mixture but still very much worth getting.

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I have listened to this many times and I love this collection. A few Discworld short stories and some brilliant gems. There are two narrators and very easy to listen to. if you are a Pratchett fan I would recommend highly.

Fantastic Sir Terry Pratchett short story

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With the discworld so familiar, we're almost too comfortable with Pratchett. Brilliantly compelling and storytelling at its best, but this collection bring together some older stuff that reveals a freshness we've not seen for a very long time.



A rare treat.

As good as he's ever been.

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if you love Terry Pratchett, this is a great addition to a collection of great books

Terry Pratchett through the years

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