h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've rewritten some of the paragraphs slightly:

I don't say anymore that you have to read Ringworld in order to enjoy Strata.

I don't say that The Colour of Magic was a bad book.

I've corrected the mistakes that you spotted.

Froodboy, in a posting to the article itself, points out that there are in fact 26 Discworld books. I prefer to leave it as it is with 25 (26?, 27?). I think this gives the impression that nobody knows, because there are new ones coming out all the time.

Cool entry . I had heard of something of this before, but none of the details.

Looking good Gnomon
The memory cogs have continued to turn and I'm now wondering how The Dark Side of the Sun fits into all this. It was another pre-Discworld book and I don't seem to own a copy to go and check up. I think I read it a friend's house in the early 80s and my 1982 edition of Strata mentions it as 'also by Terry Pratchett'.
Anybody out there read it recently enough to comment? I suspect that may have been where the turtle and elephants were first mentioned...

As far as I remember, "The Dark Side of the Sun" was a pleasant Science Fiction story with lots of comic elements. It did not mention the Discworld and so is not part of any of this.

It did have a Bank as one of the main characters (First National Bank of Sirius or something like that), which is an unusual touch.

IIRC The Truth was book 25, which made Thief of Time 26, since which there have been two more Discworld books in the form of The Last Hero and The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, released more-or-less simultaneously. I feel this highlights the problems of trying to count Discworld books. An alternative, I suppose, would be 28 (at time of writing, and counting).

It's a good article. I've not read Ringworld, but I did enjoy Strata.

I wasn't too keen on The Colour of Magic, perhaps because I read Guards, Guards first (it was a birthday present, so it seemed impolite to leave it until I could get a copy of the first, especially as they aren't serial). GG is still one of my favourite Discworld books.

But that's a horse of a different colour, and not really to do with the article, which I like.

The Prophet

I like this entry quite a lot, although I have a quibble. Strate is "Terry Pratchett's book" not Terry Pratchetts' book".

Apart from that I can see no reason for this not to be in the edited guide. It is well written, informative and interesting. Well done.

I can't recommend this until at least tommorow, as this hasn't yet been in Peer Review a week. However, by tommorow it will be and I will consider recommending this entry to be edited.

Actually this has been in Peer Review for a week, I was looking at post 21, rather than the first post in the thread. However, I want to leave this to tommorow anyway, so I can have another look at the entry.

Re: Niven. His early stuff is the best. 'Tales of Known Space'
But his 'Ringworld' and Clarke's 'Rendezvous with Rama' seem cut from the same cloth. Best of the Niven/pournelle mess is 'The Mote In God's Eye'.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled pwogramme.

Sorry about that misplaced apostrophe. It's fixed now. Promise's it wo'n't happe'n ag'ain.

I've recommended this entry to become part of the edited guide, so it will get edited, if the editors agree. Anyway, well done again on writing such an good entry.

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Congratulations!

Thanks, Silverfish, and everyone who commented on my entry!

Frogbit.

Even.
Frogbit.

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*Applauds

Congratulations!

Just thought I'd say well done again. Congratulations Gnomon!