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

Yep, yep.

By the by, why has Pyramids suddenly appeared under Messing about in time and space?

I think you should stick Thief Of Time in the Independant or Death books when it's reviewed...

It's all messed up at the moment, I sliced it around when hootoo was hating me.

Foo'!

But it's going to conform to my warped system anyway, so I may decide not to change it.

How?
Just delete the Messing About and the world is a better place!

What's this 'Death And What comes Next'???

It may well turn out to be.

I don't know, search for it I would. It's all over the web- or it should be.

Well you put it on the main page!

What is it???

I think it's a watch book. It's the other short story that PTerry wrote, along with Theatre of Cruelty. It might turn out to be a Death book.

Surely it would have been in The Companion aswell?

Sure it's Discworld? I mean Death appears in Good Omens aswell... basically the same too.

I'm really not sure. I am fairly sure it's discworld. You'd have to ask Falsie or Geggs, they seem to know most on this subject.

And theres another Pterry short story in like Death appears - "Turntables of the Night" - but thats definately not a Discworld story.


Geggs

Though I must admit, I had never heard of "Death and what comes next" before. Not even a whisper.


Geggs

So is someone gonna search for this lost short story then?

Niether have I.

Surelt it would have been in the Companion... Unless it was horribly bad.

Just found it on L-Space. Its very short.

http://www.co.uk.lspace.org/books/dawcn/dawcn-english.html


Geggs

Wish I could read it...


L-space? The offical site? I checked that a month back and it still wasn't up, just a Paul Kidby link...

You were probably looking at turtlesalltheway, as that is (supposedly) Terry's offical site, though it only ever seems to show a Kidby pic. L-Space ain't gone anywhere as far as I know, and its unoffical.

I would copy the story here, but the page on L-Space makes it clear that they have been given the online rights to the story by Terry. And that he would frown upon it appearing elsewhere.


Geggs

Well it's some of his earlier stuff, so he's going to be less practised, but not necessarily worse.

An interesting thing I've noticed in Pratchett recently is something that could be compared to many classical authors. He has a lot of stock ephithets/epithets, I'm dodgy on the spelling. Anyway, where Homer would say "Thrice Odysseus tried to do such and such, and thrice he failed", Pratchett loves his "With the general efficiency of a man trying to chainsaw a donkey".

I would say send it through e-mail but I've got my badge to think about.